#UnconfinedWalks also the rut in progress

#UnconfinedWalks an actual walk as I wasn’t feeling 100%. The sugar maples commemorating the Canadian use of Richmond Park during the Second World War (first two photos) and then sunset

"Add your Duolingo score on LinkedIn" offers updated app. Uh. Whut? You guys know it's a game, right? You're not learning much even if your Score is Very Very Big. (I have a smaller score than I used to as I got bored with German daily tasks and deleted eight years of practice there. Still.)

Right. Site visit tomorrow. From comms to assessment. Via, I hope, a better night's sleep.

And here is that episode, on Imogen by Jilly Cooper, with guests Daisy Buchanan and Ian Patterson. In Jilly’s own words, “it was all such terrific fun”. RIP. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/84-...

I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.

#UnconfinedWalks in new boots over to mum. Moderate heel skin loss, otherwise all good. Oof. And beautiful sunshine and warmth of joy.

If you weren't able to join the #ArchivesAccreditn launch webinar, you can see the updated standard, guidance and application form online*: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Advanced skitter ahead of today's webinar. It will be fine! And yet this waiting about bit is something I have yet to master.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalBadgerDay #BadgerDay #RareBooks

Call company about (dad's) outstanding account. Sorted funds. Need to close account. Given lengthy address to send death cert to. Autoreply: "this inbox is no longer monitored [lots more text, infuriating]. Except for deaths, where it is the right place." Customer experience 10/10 no notes.

'The North Wing...built in 1732 to help run the hospital and raise money for it, but fell into decline as the hospital prioritised clinical areas. Sharing Historic Barts project, external has prepared the building for a new life as a visitor attraction, cultural venue, and commercial events space.'

Sleepy. Also want to finish Marble Hall Murders. (Good Lord, Anthony Horowitz remains brilliant at propulsive plotting. Especially in this insane dual track situation he has created for himself.) Night all. Let's see how far I get.

a fun game for Sunday evening. you arrive at an AirBnB on a cold wet October evening. what *ten ingredients* would you most like to find they've left for you in the kitchen? (you also have tea, coffee, sugar, milk, olive oil, chocolate, salt & pepper) naomialderman.substack.com/p/what-are-y...

Belatedly on Strictly results (because it's so early in the season, and anyway I'm spoiled for outcomes, vg). Loving Jimmy Floyd quite a lot. I also really like new!Alexis!dancer! (and George, who does not have a poker face).

#UnconfinedWalks explored new trail today!

Very late with some #DistanceDrift and not in the best of locations for the theme, but autumn colours were in evidence, not least on me ( #UnconfinedWalks)

I am finishing my Miss Marple rewatch, as dictated by BBC showing order (which I presume is filming order). Miss Marple being harrowed by her splendid and also awful live in carer is... well. Landing more than previously, let us say.

Looking around St Deiniol's Church next door to @gladlib.bsky.social I was pleased to find stained glass windows to Gladstone’s daughters Helen, vice-principal of Newnham Cambridge, and Mary, his political secretary #WomensHistory 🗃️

Had #TeaUp at the Tate pre-Globe which would have been lovely if their queueing system worked but was instead quite tedious. Luckily I am easily soothed by the south bank.

What kind of idiot books outdoor theatre in October? The kind that still hasn't see Troilus and Cressida live. One off the list, or will be.

Later this month join us @suffolkarchives.bsky.social, Ipswich, for our next lecture: 'Unravelling the Tapestry of Death: Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars', with Tim Grady: bit.ly/4pWzBDu 5.30pm, Wednesday 22 October, including an opening reception from 5pm. All are welcome. 2/2

Listened to a glorious podcast yesterday which mentioned this was coming up (Garlic & Pearls, episode title: Conkers). Delighted it has cracked MSM, and that the outcome of the World Conker Champs investigation is also published, as that also featured as a worry.

Morning! If you're up for an autumnal wander, today's #DistanceDrift is a gentle invitation to gather the colours of the season. Wherever you find yourself, seek to join the dots of oranges, reds and golds. As ever, interpret freely; share finds as you go or at the end.

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I was absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to sit down with Hannah Priest to discuss her research. Whilst we focused on the archival sources she used, the book also goes into museum ethics and so much more!

I will catch up with Strictly, but loved actually dancing today. Also, if anyone is interested, this week is National (UK) Beginner week for Ceroc. Find your local class www.ceroc.com.

Cheers to company and actual dancing not just spectating #ConfinedCocktails

Early Strictly eps make it terribly late to do the washing up. Tsk. But it's done.

This interchangeable young brunet lad has more personality than the other one. I support at least in principle.

Cluck cluck bing! #ConfinedCocktails

Life in the shoe: Thinking of more innocent times when Soviet spaceware seemed a little less hellbent on mutually assured destruction. Today in 1957 USSR launched Sputnik 1, which Difford's Guide marks with a Sputnik cocktail. 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️ #confinedcocktails

Contemplating voting. Jimmy Floyd and La Voix maybe? It's so hard this early on. Harry because Queen!Dancer!Karen, maybe? Celeb!Karen should be okay, right? (I like Stefan more than expected but his chin is troubling.)

Hurrah for unconventional glassware #ConfinedCocktails

I keep thinking I'm doing okish. And yet today I got home to discover that when I was at the supermarket today buying a bit of extra fruit for mum, and thought "oh, should get myself some tomatoes" I had forgotten buying myself a MASSIVE BOX of tomatoes not 22 hours earlier.

Named, of course, for Bryan. Mhm. #ConfinedCocktails

And mine #UnconfinedWalks from this morning. Remember that sun?

Great cheers to getting out when you can #UnconfinedWalks

Cheers to lovely family holiday activities and cat-based crafting #ConfinedCocktails

More vaccine cheers (\o/) and to catch up #ConfinedCocktails

Cheers to homecoming, and to washing machines which are a boon and no mistake #ConfinedCocktails

Whenever I contemplate the number of steps in a quickstep I have collywobbles. Good work Harry. Love to Karen as always.

Cheers to vaccinations if not to the few hours after, and to dinner in the oven #ConfinedCocktails

Would be rude not to finish off the wine from making risotto really... in front of Strictly obv #ConfinedCocktails

Cheers to rejuvenation(?) #ConfinedCocktails. (All moisturiser queries to the original poster, 'k thanks.)

Ah, Strictly. How you give self-knowledge. I am horribly overprotective of Ellie because the one person with Down's who I know well is very vulnerable, and now has early-onset dementia which is making that worse, and apparently my subconscious extrapolates that to a blanket thing. Which is dumb.

Cheers to family dinners and easy #ConfinedCocktails when required

Cheers to marvellous bargain bins! #ConfinedCocktails

I have arrived at @gladlib.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to spending the next week here thanks to the Daisy Ronco Scholarship. If you’re in the area on Thursday come and hear my #NecessaryWomen talk!

Yay Alex. I withdraw any concerns she might be too stately to jiggle, she's doing lovely.