The original memorial stone for Richard Parker, now located inside Pear Tree Church, Southampton. Parker was a 17-year-old cabin boy on board the yacht Mingonette, which was wrecked in the Indian Ocean on a voyage from Southampton to Australia on 5 July 1884. Long post, story in screenshots: 1/7

I absolutely despise autocarrot. Which also tried to change despite to despoil.

My timeline is all #traitors and #TheArchers just now while we've finished A Perfect Spy and are wondering John Le Carrie ever write a happy, or least neutral, ending.

Quote post with a clue to where you're from.

A really interesting wee piece on how images of fog - such as in film noir - might have influenced how seriously we take pollution. theconversation.com/how-romantic...

Friday night #wols 🦉🤩

@hiker-huw.bsky.social why didn't you like my picture!?

@martingillie.bsky.social zoom in

Share a photo of mountains you have taken.

One of my favourite places to be... in summer and autumn.

Nutella and garlic is not a great combo.

When will I learn to look for my work laptop the night BEFORE?

RT if you have zero interest in knowing how to open a ChatGPT tab 🙄

Why* does it sound like aircraft are going to land in our front garden every night this week? We're 12 miles from the airport.

This article spends a lot of time in the ancient Greek region of Ionia, and a related fact that didn't fit in is that the geography of Greece has historically included both Ionia to the west and the Ionian Sea to the east, towards Italy – and the region and the sea are unrelated words.

Did you know that lightbulb in German is ‘glow pear’?

It's -16 C right now where my sister lives.

Current mood after nearly a week on the road

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

It's #PenguinAwarenessDay! Today we consider the penguin, their excellent vibes, and the threats they face. We can also enjoy these illustrations by Vieillot and Oudart in 'La Galerie des Oiseaux' (1820) of a Gentoo and Crested penguin.

Special offer on #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney extended to the end of this month! shop.orcadian.co.uk/product/sign...

#TeamDragon 💪😠

We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳

My favourite in this @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social thread. 😁 "I like to imagine a family of half a dozen bees live extremely happily and peacefully behind this door and printed out this sign just to ward off cold callers."

"we've found a plant, and we need the latin name to be something meaningful, you know? not just planty mcplantface" "gotcha!"

Overheard on train: "Those houses look little because they are far away. The other ones look bigger because they are closer to us."

Is the entirety of northern England covered in dense fog?

A lovely lapis peacock for #PeacocksOfBluesky 🤩 shared by alert spotter @lakesstiles.bsky.social

#TeamDragon! Did you know it is #AppreciateADragonDay!?

Have crossed the Love/Duck line.

*waves to @dribelad.bsky.social flying through Derby.

Just spent a full 30 seconds trying to plug my train charger into my phone ticket. #Winning

This amused my beak. By Franco Matticchio.

Sometimes I think about how the forest seems unaware of me, but then I trip and fall. I am a bear.

Just 2 weeks to go until the next Triskele Heritage online talk: The Mediaeval Traveller - a journey into life on the road & the observations of mediaeval wayfarers. Takes place at 7pmGMT on Wed 28 Jan. Booking & more info, here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae... 📸: British Library

#TeamDragon ...I think *squints

Deliver. We're not ob-gyns, for petesake

Obviously don't know the details, but a CT scan as the first diagnostic test for stomach pain? If so (and I wouldn't be surprised), that's also problematic.

#TeamDragon ftw - protecting again curses since at least the 12th century

"The Haunted Dolls' House" by M R James. Streamed live at 8pm(UK) on Saturday 31 January, and available towatch anytime after. Simply register and donate here dollshousehaunted.eventbrite.co.uk pass it on

Free online Public Seminar 2026 start with @thinkuhi.bsky.social candidate Tara Athanasiou discussing her research 'Placing Women, Tracing Journeys: Female Mobility and Social Bonds in the Norse Period'. 7pm 26/02/26 Register tinyurl.com/46yvd4f8 @uhiorkney.bsky.social

We're looking at the cultural history of #peatlands on the #IsleofMan for #WWD2026. This post considers the legislation around cutting for fuel⬇️ #yearofmanx

Not conflating Introductions with Afterwords #SpoilerAlert

I decree: go forth, drink tea, read books and be awesome to one another.

Repost this with your home river

Imagine the duck slide @martingillie.bsky.social et al.