The sun has made an appearance for this Autumnal view of Mr Gladstone’s Library @gladlib.bsky.social

Archivists Assemble @gladlib.bsky.social! Great to see @heritageadrian.bsky.social here by sheer coincidence

What’s that Lassie?

Some beautiful scenery from the Inverness to Euston sleeper train at Kingussie

Parkrun this morning just a couple of minutes round the corner from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social so I had to drop by afterwards

A great experience at Showtown, Blackpool last week. Congratulations on winning Permanent Exhibition of the Year at the Museums and Heritage Awards last week. Can see why you won!

Some blue plaques from a walk around Mayfair yesterday. Jack Buchanan. Bert Ambrose. Sam Browne. Harry Selfridge. Benjamin Disraeli (this one not actually blue)

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Final day of service today for the RIBA Library at 66 Portland Place as we are closing prior to our building’s refurbishment. Temporary services will be provided from later this year until we are back! Last minute researchers in today for a final fix of the 1930s splendour of our home.

Five years ago today we fixed this notice to the door of the RIBA Library at 66 Portland Place, and began to head for home

Thank you @heritageadrian.bsky.social for supplying this topical introductory reading for my first London Book Fair. Mystery now solved until next year #whodunnit #lbf2025

Daffodils in the garden today, for St David’s Day

Quick bit of TV this week .. I’m at 27 mins in on this link if you would like to watch www.londonlive.co.uk/news/watch-a...

Nice and warm in the crime fiction section in the bookshop today

Quick bit of Handel (sung by @satisfactory20.bsky.social & friends) before Christmas

Cannington Viaduct nr Uplyme, Devon, seen in wintry surroundings today. 3rd arch from left in the photo had to be reinforced, apparently during its construction.. the viaduct was in use on the Axminster-Lyme Regis railway line, 1903-1965

The Bookshop window, Lyme Regis

Fossils on Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis this afternoon

Yesterday my RIBA colleague Valeria made this excellent Mimosa cake to share, very nice

For #JacobinDay today, the hellebore is back in my garden - despite doing its best to hide

Whodunit bookshelf has had a good clean and tidy today, acquisitions from the last two years have been put in their places and surplus set aside for the charity shop

Christmas cactus is actually flowering at Christmas this year

The local Christmas raffle was drawn on Sunday, I won this excellent cake (inc 6 tablespoons of Brandy)

Very grey weather today .. the sort of day that when you open the curtains in the morning, the house gets darker inside. However .. in the garden I have managed to find a few winter flowers

Great view from outside today’s office

The allure of the bookshop window

Rainbow today at Lyme Regis

Beautiful sunrise in Bromley this morning

Best email I received all week

The sun is out in Liverpool today

Attended the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London tonight. Unchanged in centuries.

Getting ready for tonight’s Colin Rowe lecture at the RIBA

I have voted! If you are a Member and haven’t yet see below ..

Congratulations and happy birthday!

From the RIBA Collections stores: the landmark ‘This is Tomorrow’ exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, Summer 1956, featured in a special issue of Architectural Design, with cover by Theo Crosby, and a few adverts inside…

Colleague Valeria has provided this for us all at RIBA today - it is very tasty!

Sunset at Snettisham beach on the last evening of British Summer Time

A new post box topper has been installed at the end of the road this week

From the RIBA Collections store: a digital preservation challenge

“In late October tall bracken fronds are turning from russet to golden yellow, and the colours blend with fungi, the pheasants and the spindle-tree berries.” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Currently awaiting the announcement of the winner of the RIBA 2023 Stephen Lawrence prize

Ready to go at the BFI whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

I’ll be at the BFI South Bank on Tuesday introducing two films in case you fancy coming.. Jim Stirling (1973), Donald Insall (1985) and a tale of two contrasting approaches, in a rare opportunity to see these documentaries on screen. See you there? whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Along with RIBA Library colleagues I’m at the London Canal Museum today for our awayday - great spot

Sunday afternoon in Croydon

Breakfast in the garden .. feels like summer this morning

If you are looking for a cheery account to follow on here may I recommend .. my Dad @snettisher.bsky.social .. a mixture of nature-related and Norfolk-related photography to brighten your day …

The pedestrianisation of the Strand, outside Somerset House

Today’s lunchtime view

A postcard from holiday: Conservation in Action at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk (NT)