Haunting festive presence.

Titus loves his new Christmas aubergine. #JoinIn

Merry christmas one and all. I'll be on here throughout the day with #joinin if you need some company. Cat pictures welcome. Use the #joinin hashtag and jump in. Get chatting and be kind ❤️

Pics of the abandoned Boston United ground [credit: Sam's explores] testament to the restorative powers of nature

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

With half an hour until we have to leave, the cat has eaten grandma’s Christmas present

Merry Christmas to my mother, who got my toddler a toy fire engine that not only makes lots of noise, it also sprays real water

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

I've never made it to Bungay but I once visited the museum in another Suffolk town beginning with B. There were two elderly ladies on duty. One of them asked if I'd visited the town before. "Yes", once". She produced a large framed photo of some townsfolk c1945 and said "do you recognise anyone?"

I could tell so many stories about my 4 years as volunteer curator of Bungay Museum. Most of these fall under the category of ‘things we found damp in 1980s carrier bags placed there by the previous curator’

Grandad’s Xmas. 80 years ago.

Cats and humans may see the kitchen stack differently? Hierarchy of Needs or Pyramid of Privilege?

Husband chatting to Old Lady Dog: "No, I don't think Santa brought this for you. Dogs can't have wine. But I was talking to Santa earlier and he said maybe Husky Santa will drop round later with some fish heads. But only if you're good. Husky Santa brings coal too. Stop trying to drink my wine."

So are we using this Bingo card again this year? #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is also a great hashtag to check out on Christmas Eve/Day for some smiles. Some unlikely and fun sleeping places for people visiting others at Christmas. Here's one of my favourites from last year.

Just saw a lump on the road, stopped my car & went to help what was clearly a hedgehog in distress. Reader, it was a mangel worzel. A loamy tuber.

4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo

Saw a lady in the bus wearing a great hand-knitted Christmas pudding hat. That’s my project for next chrimble sorted 🎄🧶

Argh, now I’ve got it too. So I’m sharing it!

Day 21 of #InsectAdvent Christmas is a time of over-eating. But we're not the biggest feasters. Hermetia illucens (Black-Soldier fly) larvae are capable of eating up to 2x its own body mass in food per day - the best bio recyclers consuming our waste @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

#MosaicMonday #Roman Mosaic Depicting Dionysus’ Discovery of Ariadne in Naxos. The central panel of this extraordinary mosaic depicts a scene from #mythology, the moment when Dionysus, the #Greek #god of #wine, first sees his future wife, the Cretan princess Ariadne. #art

This year because of you, an amazing £6,000 has been raised through club nights, comedy nights, marathon runs, birthday fundraisers, artwork sales, and so many other creative acts of generosity! Thank you!! If you're interested in being a Community Fundraiser, get in touch 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

Midsummer Cattle At Dawn: a painting my dad did based on a photo I took in 2017.

Not unusual by any stretch of the imagination but almost as a Right of Passage, Far Lane in the village where I grew up had a 'T' added. The parish council gave up cleaning the sign and commissioned one with absolutely no space after the 'R'. A sad day for teens in the village - pretty harmless fun

A solstice sunrise over Lake Winnipeg.

I live in Denmael and have done a lot of digitizing old books for accessibility. A common (and amusing) OCR error is that the word Helligånden (the Holy Ghost) often becomes Helliganden (the Holy Duck).

My write up about ligatures and this broken joke from 2020: glennf.medium.com/dont-coffin-...

I left a rubber sponge behind by mistake. Please will you get someone to post it to me.

It’s lighter at #NewgrangeSolstice than it is here. Thick fog in Nottingham this morning.

Starting at 8.40! Happy solstice everyone!

I love this. We really did have a good time making it, despite the fact every single photo is like a scene from a hostage video.

New fully funded PhD! 🦛🦴 Explore the "Hippo & Hyena Haven" of MIS5e Britain w/ @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Use isotope analysis & proteomics to study this unique Ice Age ecosystem. Apply by Jan 14: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Inventorying the spice rack as my first Christmas job. Middle age is so fulfilling!

Tom Cox's @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social dad painted a series of pictures of his missing cat to deal with the worry while she was away. This is my favourite.

We are pleased to announce the 46th conference of the #AEA will be held in Spring at the University of Lancashire, between 7th & 9th May 2026. Details: envarch.net/conferences 📸Co-host Dr Jennifer Jones presenting at the @unistavanger.bsky.social conference this month. #environmentalarchaeology

If your brain’s super tired & you’re struggling but you have stuff to do so don’t have the option to hibernate then hi, me too. This photo’s for your brain-if you pause on it for a few moments it’s likely to dial down stress hormone & trigger dopamine release:a small mind hack 🐚

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

No saints this morning, but I wanted to share a couple of #paleography things I've noticed while poking around among digitized MSS the last few days. First, I happened upon this early 9c MS of Bede's commentary on the Catholic Epistles in Wolfenbüttel. Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 37 Weiss.

Bait and switch the tech bros did was amazing. Made the whole world dependent on their code and then they algorithed, balkanised, privatised and divided everything up for more cash. Govts, schools, universities, consumers - totally gulled. It was top work really. Now gonna rinse and repeat with AI.

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

I have a memory that the conversation between Brian Clough and the chairman of Nottingham Forest, in in which the former agreed to become the club's manager, took place as they walked round the boundary of Bunny cricket ground, but I can't find any mention of this online.

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

There are only three weeks left to apply for the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2026. The scheme helps postdoctoral researchers to conduct exploratory work on the antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts of parts of Asia. Apply now: https://bit.ly/488Axh7

We've long been keen on #MaryAnning (e.g. part-inspiration for Fossil Hunter Lottie action figure, & featured in our #RaisingHorizons exhibition). We know how inspiring and powerful her story as an individual is. But we're interested in seeing #trowelblazers not as anomalies, but as nodes...

Solar panels stare thirstily at the sky. There is nothing for them here today. 16/

A rather fine 0.6mm long female Anaphes crassicornis wasp of the Mymaridae found 19.11.2025 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. #UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour

I'm biased but if this Christmas you are looking for silly, warm, dark, complex novel about an antique dealer who lives with a hyper-intelligent semi-aquatic folkloric creature who loves knitting, might I recommend this? It's quite weird and not for everyone but some people seem to think it's ok...

The great thing about end of term marking is I get so much cleaning done.