That'll keep the rain off. We are hugely grateful to the Sizewell C Community Foundation and to Museum Development South East, whose grants have funded the restoration of our Archive Store roof, and to Ian Culf for the splendid work.

Herds of Citroens & Stags swept majestically across our museum yards last Sunday. Wonderful to see these beautiful cars in the glorious Spring sunshine.

Whatever the Romans had instead of a Surrey with a fringe on top, it was coming this way according to this floor fragment in Museu de Menorca (here on important fact finding mission).

When you think your newly surfaced car park is pretty snazzy, then these amazing creatures turn up to really make the place look tidy.

When you've spent the last six months refurbishing, refreshing, and reinventing your museum, this is the sort of visitor feedback that makes it all worthwhile.

One of the more obvious elements of our restoration work. Our glorious re-gilded weathervane shows off its shimmer against a Spring Suffolk sky!

We're open! Apologies for the period of radio silence, we were preoccupied with preparations for reopening after five months of refurbishment work.

Well done! You earned this. (sound on) Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.

Thanks to the largesse of the Rolo elves 😉, I have come into possession of these uber-cool things. @BarnsleyMuseums.bsky.social Top Trumps! The recommended age is 6+, but I had supervision, and had a cracking time learning about Barnsley's FIVE awesome museums!

A short time-lapse film of returning the restored body back on the chassis. 3 years work led up to this milestone moment. Once again No.26 is sitting its wheels and starting to look like a trolleybus again. But there is still a ways to go before we are done.

Dear Auntie Merchy, how can I feel more confident when on the same platform as gorgeous content such you and that wonderful @romanpalace.bsky.social? I'm a geeky 6, surrounded by awesome 10's. I get so self-conscious and tongue-tied. You're so cool and funny, I hope that you can help me.

On this day in 1774, Mary Cooper published a book of English nursery rhymes. It included 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', which is thought to reference a tax on the wool trade, imposed in 1275.

Here are some doggos for your Friday morning. From Painting Poems by Julie Anna Douglas. Illustrated by me.

@museumbums.bsky.social hardly an exemplar posterior, but interesting tats.

📖 Learn the origins of the notebook, its early importance to medieval Italy, and its adoption by the thinkers of the renaissance, the scientific revolution and the enlightenment. 7 March, at the Linnean Society. Don't miss out on tickets! Follow the link below: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

So, last night a little film about the museum made it's debut at the 1st Leiston Community Film Festival (soon to eclipse Sundance 😂). Lovely, inspiring evening full of hopes, dreams, and community spirit. dahlia-decagon-jg28.squarespace.com/services

It's National Flirting Day! Victorian singletons found an opportunity for playfully sexual badinage in the viewing of albums of home-made photo-collage art. Any flirting rituals from other eras?

Actual photo of me dealing with all the tripe that this Friday has chosen to fling at me.

It's St. Valentines Day, honey!

Is everyone OK? In meetings most of yesterday, but it appears a few of you had some sort of identity crisis.

That feeling when a book that you pre-ordered over six months ago, and had forgotten about, turns up in your letterbox. 🤗 📔

The weather is tres gloomy and it's cold so we are looking to warmer days and bluer skies. Here's the Hall looking rather lovely on a summer's day. You are welcome. 😘

We've been informed that today is 'Lost Penny' Day. In recognition of which:

As we segue into the late evening here in the UK, I'd just like to thank everyone who got on board with the #superbowl / #superb #owl thing today - particularly the sustained and inspired nonsense from @romanpalace.bsky.social and @yorkadventurers.bsky.social - thanks for a fun afternoon! 😁

Here's our super bowl! An injection moulded hand wash bowl, produced as an example of the products that could be made using the S & S moulding machines that were built by Garrett Engineering in the 1970's. Impressive, we think, but no half-time show.

Only 4 more followers until we reach the Devil's number 😈🤘 #WitchSky #Devil #NumberOfTheBeast

No chopsticks in our collection. But we do have some very fine ESP cutlery from the Garrett Works canteen. Still searching for a copy of a 1950's canteen menu.

It's National Chopsticks Day! Originating in China around 1700 BCE, chopsticks were initially cooking tools before becoming eating utensils by the Ming Dynasty. They spread to other countries and gained global popularity through trade and travel. What's your favourite thing to eat with them?

Don't forget! Today is Carrot Cake Day! So that's Monday fixed. 😋😁

Good morning! Your to do list for this morning: ✅ Wake Up 🟩 Stop scrolling 🟩 Vote for our "Royston by Night" postcard in the Hertfordshire Museum's Object of the Year Award 🟩 Have a coffee https://buff.ly/3WxIrdF

After the 87 grim days of January, welcome, everyone, to a February of just 20 'business' days. Stay focused, peeps, or it'll be March before we know it. 😁

The 'Sizewell C Hoard' is a bundled of over 300 silver coins, wrapped in a sheet of lead and hidden on the boundary between two fields... what a find! Read more here - oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/news/the-siz... 🏺

Sunday snooze

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If you have a few minutes to squander on informal learning, check out this cracking digital exhibition about the medicalization of childbirth.

To everyone in the track of Eowyn's vicious heart - earnestly hoping to see you all safe and sound on the other side. Take great care, peeps.

So, the blacksmith has arrived to remove our weathervane for much needed TLC. It's going to be straightened, strengthened, regilded and returned atop the Long Shop.

"Ay, it's Larry. Watcha been up to my leopard?" "Hey, Lyle. Nuthin' much. Ate a guy's face off yesterday. That was pretty rad, I 'spose.

Our contribution to Blew Monday

Seeing this image was Terry the crossbowman’s first indication that he had a bald spot. He would go on to waste a fortune on products like ‘Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow’ and rarely ever took his helmet off in public again - 15th century, BnF Français 2644, f. 265r

Me and the four people that read my skeets

This just in! Rare image of the skeleton of a Victorian factory roof. Experts have determined that the lath bone is connected to the... truss bone.

We're open again from today, it'll be great if you come and see us some time. With effect from today, our admission prices are adult £7.50; student £6; disabled, free; accompanied children, free.

@themerl.bsky.social #absoluteunit Seems as though boxy beasts were quite the thing in C.19 (from Henry Stephens' 'Book of the Farm', 1844).

I worry equally about irreplaceable objects, and indispensable people.

Peace, health, happiness...

Charlie Brown's dog seems to have been turbulent...

From here in the inter-shindig recovery lounge, I am bouyed by the fact that, in contrast to the other place, there are some thoughtful, funny, and eloquent souls at work here at the Blue Butterfly. May your shingle hang long and level.