The most recent P&P I rewatched and currently third favourite after Blimp and IKWIG!. It pips Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. Until I rewatch one of them again, probably. Though NONE of those films have Dirk Bogarde's finest costume.

One for the kids.

Public Eye! More people should watch Public Eye.

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

Excellent

Am I a bad person for laughing at this?

Absolutely made up to be one of this kid's favourite books of the year. In noble company with @jamiesmart.bsky.social and a Pokémon book (list books ftw!) #UkKidLit What a way to kick off Loki's #NationalYearOfReading

"Mary Rose" is so deeply ingrained as "the name of a ship" that you don't really think of its 'natural'meaning, until presented with "Peter Pomegranate".

Thought Boaty McBoatface was a funny name? Meet the Mary Rose's sister ship, the Peter Pomegranate. maryrose.org/discover/his...

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1944, Anne-Marie Walters parachutes into France as a British Special Operations Executive agent. SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation. In Aug 1944 she escapes over the Pyrenees. She writes a book about her work. #WorldWar2 #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory 🗃️

thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"

I told you society was breaking down. #HillfortsWednesday is on Saturday now.

Luckily the idea of having miltaries too powerful to fight each other and that its in noones interest to do so, has a great pedigree.

Was it ever established whether Mog out of Meg And Mog was compatible with Sticklebricks?

One of several surviving glass vessels from Roman Colchester (Camulodunum). Now part of the collections at Colchester Castle. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #ColchesterCastle

Entering the frigidarium (cold room) of Bratton Seymour #Roman villa bathhouse Excavated by @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social 2015-16, this stunning rebuild at the Newt in #Somerset is as close as we can get to the sights and sounds of Britannia without a time machine 😍 🎥 Dec 2022 #RomanSiteSaturday

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous autobiographical play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' opens off-Broadway in New York City. #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Time to look back at 2025 one more time. My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now. Please watch, like and circulate. Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise. youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

Today is the same distance from 1 January 1970 as that day was from 1 January 1914. No doubt some of you remember both days.

Individual *Travel*Lodgings. #TheTraitors

The hysteresis in our thermostat is a bit aggressive. It has to wait until your mug of tea freezes over before it deigns to come back on - unless you manually adjust the temperature back up half a degree.

Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you're going into 2026 with.

There's a #hillfort on my timeline and it isn't Wednesday. It's only day 1 of 2026 and the natural order is breaking down.

Happy New Year everyone especially my #Playschool Babies. Remember to spread as much unconditional love, joy, peace, kindness and positivity wherever you go. Keep hope in your heart and make your world shine with happiness ❤️

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/volc... Change in long-distance trade routes helped avoid famine, but in addition to life-saving food, the ships were carrying the deadly bacterium that ultimately caused the Black Death.

Finally found my target audience.

And continuing with the Rob Reinerathon, that's This Is Spinal Tap under our belt.

My favourite video. Also the Family Guy version of same.

Just read that today is the last day that MTV stops showing pop videos. Here are some images from pop videos that, for me, have all sorts of energies, all sorts of biographical traction. I might bang on about videos for a bit.

I have a glass of wine, I'm about to eat chicken pie, and we are watching Sleepless in Seattle which *is* a Christmas Movie.

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

#diggingforbritain Series 13 here we come! First episode on BBC2 and iPlayer on Jan 7th 9pm✨

A homeless alcoholic outside Foyles once shouted 'Are you John Lennon?' at me. I have never looked even slightly like John Lennon. I would also take a moment to remember the lady who lived with her plastic bags on New Oxford Street near old Forbidden Planet.

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

Xmas 1990 was Malcolm Longair's excellent lecture. The following October, he did the first (and best delivered) set of lectures I had at University, blitzing through 'Theoretical Concepts in Physics'. The RI does great online events for members (and membership is cheap).

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

2025 has been a blast & #HillfortsWednesday lives on 🥳🛖 Thanks for all the follows & comments. BlueSky remains a great platform for archaeological discussion & sharing 🍻🔥 📽️ Walking up & into the south gate of Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, last week. Look at those mighty terraces & views! 😮

I've got to plan and execute the Allied invasion of North Africa while simultaneously running a group of washed up MI6 agents.

In my epic rewatch of Silent Witness we are in the glorious period where everyone has beautiful Nokia Lumia phones.

These are really great adventure games.

I worked in an old age home on school holiday and many of the residents would tell me their age followed by "you know." I've never understood the "you know" bit but love it, so I use it whenever I give my age. "I'm 28, you know."

"Crossing the Road with Robert Peston" a depressing new millennium replacement for The Tufty Club.

My latest socks 🧦

It's like that U2 track Apple forced on people.

It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

My granny was born in India (because my great grandad was in the Sherwood Foresters)

My daughter and I said hello to Claire Foy and family in a Sylvanian Families pop-up shop.

This charming crab is waving goodbye to 2025. One of many marine images around a lost figure of Neptune (a wheel from his chariot survived) under what is now Gloucester House in Dyer Street, Cirencester. This image was the most popular of my #MosaicMonday offerings this year! #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Lowland pandas!