Have hedgehog, will play croquet.

My aunt used to apologise profusely for a noise like the "rattle of musketry".

A reliable and constant companion.

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve found from across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if you found them in a hedgerow, the focus of this week’s challenge!

56 years ago today: Relief at Mission Control as Apollo 13 astronauts return safely to Earth. 🧪🔭

I think this is purple gromwell(?) growing beside a path in Somerset. #WildflowerHour

So happy to share a watercolour illustration I created for author Vince Wheeler's book "Honest John Pine", a 1940s golf fiction I can't wait to read. ⛳️📚 #golf #GolfIllustration #watercolour

What a wonderful thing! #TinyJoys

V excited to be delivering this online talk for the wonderful @chawtonhouse.bsky.social on the evening of April 23rd. Book tickets now if you want to hear more about why I think Fanny Knight was the prototype for Sir Walter Elliot! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...

Today, Christians across Canada celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We are reminded that compassion is stronger than hate, that light follows darkness, and that hope endures – even in the face of despair. From my family to yours, have a blessed Easter.

I hope you've got your New Tax Year Resolutions ready... 🙄

Remarkable news. This is a date that will go down in history.

That's what they say, left My response, right #womenartists

Working on keeping down my stress levels, went off to the supermarket without my wallet. 😂

Miss G Hunter Bell, Miss G Hunter Bell, How mad I am, sad I am, glad you did well. [with apologies to the shade of JB]

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

Anne Sharp was friends with Jane Austen. She died in 1853. Her address was perhaps a pleasant reminder of that friendship.

Blimey. #TinyJoy

Chiffchaff in the garden going full-throttle now. #spring #TinyJoys

The original stabber-in-the-back.

#18thC #19thC

A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii. At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.

Spoilt for choice.

Toad denied his toadying.

Greetings from Kyiv Today, on International Women’s Day, I chose to honor them: mothers, wives and girlfriends of missing soldiers. I visited the exhibition “Status: Missing. My State: Waiting (Love You).” The exhibits were created by those who wait and love 💔 Stop the video on a story to read it

“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.” ― Sappho #InternationalWomensDay ♀️

No, no, I won't play ball!

"In 1755, for example, Longman joined a consortium with five other publishers to produce and publish Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language." theconversation.com/netflix-and-...

The #18thC equivalent of those Instagram posts "today I saw my book being printed".

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

John Aubrey, born 400 years ago this month.

Hi all, today marks the end of my time as a postdoc for the Punch's Pocket Book Archive project. I'm not 100% sure what's next, big picture, but in the meantime here's a post I wrote last month about #19thC Crystal Palace dinosaurs, ht @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social for info 🦖🦕 ppbka.hypotheses.org/2803

This is the most AI thing that could possibly have happened. AI+. No notes.

What lies beneath...

Regardless of the White Paper’s merits, today may be a difficult day for SEN parents in your life. Please be nice to them. It is hard to see these conversations carried out mostly by politicians/media with zero idea of the agony, humiliation & expense involved in fighting for your child’s rights.

In case you thought making pancakes was a frivolous activity, here they inspired true art:

I tried to toss a pancake once, But found it quite impossible. Now, maybe I am just a dunce, But IS a pancake tossable?

“For this was on seynt Valentynes day...” Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Fowles 1381-2 Codex Manesse, c.1304, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg Cpg 848 #StValentinesDay

What did the Romans ever do for us? #546: the drain strainer.

Talent borrows, genius steals...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 20. Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers, 1875, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 19. Franz Marc, The Foxes, 1913, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

Happy international women and girls in science day! 🧪🔭☄️👩🏻‍🔬 In today's edition, I'll be meeting students, writing grants and doing associate dean-y stuff. All while consuming caffeine from my @starxiv.bsky.social podcast mug 😍

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 18. William Nicholson, London Types - Bluecoat Boy, 1898