Just go while you can.

Am on Zoom in an ASAHRG meeting but sleepily read the next presentation as "1,000 ancient gnomes"...

The Silbury Hill cake, consumed by ASAHRG on the West Kennet Avenue at Avebury in 2014.

The bronze statue of Terry Jones (which I contributed to) has been vandalized... not even a month in place. Sculptor Nick Elphick has surveyed the damage, says it minimal and CCTV cameras are in place, hoping they catch who did it. JFC, people. JFC.

Jammed pack with rocks.

Around the time his daughter was born, the portrait painter that had painted "The Keepsake" (pictured), Charles Haig-Wood (1856-1927), inherited a fortune, moved to West Hampstead and created an etching of Stonehenge. Why?

Noticed this refected in the blank TV screen whilst sitting alongside Nina. Who would have thought that appearing on TV can make one appear slimmer.

Kennet and Avon canal at Devizes in Wiltshire.

Is it me, or is Rick Wakeman evolving into a body double for David Attenborough?

Revisited the Wharf on the Kennet and Avon canal today and Old Swan Yard in Devizes in Wiltshire. @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social @devizine.bsky.social

A hard choice between the Painted Lady (my name sake) and this iconic chalk downland butterfly. britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/vote-placed/...

Being auctioned by Charles Hanson - comedian Eric Morecambe's pike was based on a well-known illustration by the late Wiltshire based angling writer and artist Bernard Venables, which can be found in the pages of the tremendously popular Mr Crabrtree goes fishing (1949).

Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham 1782-1853, ‘Stonehenge Looking West’, 1834, watercolour and pencil, 41.5 x61.5 cm.

Devizes Jubilee Morris performing at the British Lion last night - spectacular entertainment.

It's called science. #CerneAbbasGiant

More wandering in Devizes, Wiltshire.

A quarter of a century is too short a time to let go of proofs right?

To put this news in context the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft was redeveloped with lottery money barely a decade ago and has been shortlisted for Museum of the Year.

Above - the Knife Angel sculpture touring Britain to highlight knife crime, and below what is on sale on at least two separately positioned stands in a local Morrisons supermarket - something is very wrong surely.

Bank Holiday weekends are like...

Come along tomorrow night - I am giving a talk about Wiltshire's chalk horses as part of the Broad Town White Horse project presentation - 7.30 pm Broad Town Village Hall, Tuesday 5th May.

This Thursday @jonwoolcott.bsky.social will be at The Bookery discussing The Tattooed Hills: Journeys to Chalk Figures, a captivating blend of travel writing & cultural history, in conversation with @ysella.bsky.social. Tickets £5: thebookery.org.uk/event/jon-wo... @quartobooksuk.bsky.social

And something I worked on earlier- the fabulous Hawthorn & Hare Morris.

Sketching around Devizes today.

Sketching the Bobby Van in Devizes and people enjoying the sun on their doorstep with their lovely dog Nellie.

Perhaps the Blick Mead project and the Amesbury History Centre and Amesbury Town Council might care to explain how one of these mighty beasts left marks so relatively small, shallow and close together it resembled a pattern expected from cattle? www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/2605958...

1948 Wiltshire's identity - dressing as Moonrakers to attend a Swindon match.

1948, the brilliant artist educator Edward S. Billing, Avebury henge. Reminiscent of Ladybird illustrations.

1948 The water tower atop Marlborough Mound, detail from a drawing by Bryan de Grineau.

From my talk about the history of Wiltshire's chalk horses at Broad Town vilkage hall 7.30 pm on 5th May - 18th century short sword belonginb to a Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London, Royal Crown on both sides and the shell guard embellished with the White Horse of Hanover, blade length 74.5 cm.

Devizes field sketch and work in progress.

Silbury Hill and approaching storm photo by Ian Sims.

When I am sketching the windows of the Black Swan in Devizes Market Place. Completed sketch below.

Rhys Bliszko architect and builder of the Stonehenge Inn Stonehenge.

Moorcroft Pottery 165/7 Stonehenge Vase Vicky Lovatt #Moorcroft #Pottery #Stonehenge #Vase www.bwthornton.co.uk/Moorcroft-La...

More Devizes Market doodles.

@martynjb.bsky.social posted by Moulding the builders - our team were invited by @englishheritage to mark 100 years of Moulding’s association with Stonehenge that began in the 1920s, building the original café and guest houses - a relationship that continues today with ongoing maintenance.

The Red Devils landing on Marlborough Common to deliver the match ball to Marlborough RFC today.

Just came across all the memory sticks from Blick Mead - every find tray, trenches and more 2011-2019.

Dedicated Stonehenge research - required to watch an episode of Ch4 First Dates to discover a woman stating that she and her sister attended Winter Solstice and licked the stones... Got to be a first. Watching First Dates that is.

Wiltshire Museum puts Devizes at the centre of new tourist itinerary linking Stonehenge and Avebury. Launched on World Heritage Day. www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

Experiencing Devizes Ways on Market Days; a Special Case for a Town of Culture 2028 Sketches and Written by Brian Edwards If not too distracted when bumping into townsfolk and village friends, you might remember to get more of a cheese you liked or that essential part for the vacuum cleaner.....…

My article about experiencing market days in Devizes and the town's bid to be the Town of Culture in 2028. devizine.com/2026/04/16/e...