Tonight it’s the Hudson’s Ale House, back when I was young it was the Tally Ho!

Live and Let Live on a Friday night

Pet hates for reviews anyone? Mine has to be the review that is written based purely on whether the reviewer feels a book has sufficiently cited their own work…

Sarsen

The colours of the Wiltshire landscape this morning were just stunning

Just back from Devizes and the opening of Rose Ferraby’s new exhibition Dowland at the Wiltshire Museum last night. Still buzzing - it’s such a fantastic show. Thanks to @lesleymcf.bsky.social for being such a great travelling companion www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk?exhibition=d...

West Kennet long barrow and Silbury Hill - they’re both still there!

Slightly grumpy by the attitude of some colleagues who see museum work (and workers) as somehow lesser. Museums are the public face of archaeology. Far more people will read exhibition text than will ever read a journal article. Also, curators are perfectly capable of conducting their own research

Nice evening walk in the park after a long day

Productive day off work. Two new bespoke bookcases made for the landing. Not quite square in places but does the job…

First world problem I know, but going for promotion can be such a demoralising experience. Just been told by a (well meaning) faculty member that (despite being on the same academic contract as all the other lecturers) I occupy a ‘fringe’ position in the University so promotion is more difficult…

Impromptu storage container for various allotment produce

Roman Pharos at Dover

Fish and chips on Deal beach last night - I really love late summer

Reflecting on the Snettisham book almost a year after the final manuscript was sent to the publisher. It was no ‘ordinary’ book. Julia and I each spent more than a decade researching, cataloguing, writing, coordinating scientific and conservation work and commissioning specialist reports

At the Bartlow Hills this morning. Always a very peaceful place to visit

Terrible image through my binoculars but I promise there’s a white-tailed eagle out there perched on the post

North Sea

The stunning Wadden Sea nature reserve. Seals somewhere on the horizon

One for @richardmortimer.bsky.social - houses of Southern Denmark

Visited the beautiful Silkeborg Museum yesterday to see Tollund Man. Displays very different from Moesgaard Museum but equally affecting

Visiting Moesgaard Museum today. Always wanted to come here and it hasn’t disappointed - incredible displays

Beer delivery in our German hotel - the robocat

Day 2 of our road trip to Denmark in an electric car about to begin.

The surveillance cameras in Heffers bookshop in Cambridge wouldn’t look out of place in a sci-fi film!

This is the original location of @maacambridge.bsky.social located on Little St. Mary’s Lane

Sometimes things are too big to photograph in the studio. This wonderful model canoe with outrigger is being photographed in the gallery this morning before we open

Day off today. Cricket at Fenners and lunch at the Cambridge Blue

Back garden echinacea

Lunch at the Botanic Gardens today - looking lush in the shade

Front garden poppy

I love the long summer evenings - the cycle ride on the way back from the pub last night

One of my favourite objects from @maacambridge.bsky.social - a turtle ghost net made from recycled fishing nets

Former Roll On Blank Tapes shop Gwydir Street, Cambridge

@richardmortimer.bsky.social pub portrait

Every time I walk down Free School Lane in Cambridge I love spotting the statue of a dog on the top of one of the Corpus Christi buildings

Atmospheric walk along the Fleam Dyke followed by a picnic

Door of the day - entrance to King’s College chapel, plus a shot of the lovely meadow lawn behind the chapel

It’s such a lovely day, I decided to walk home from work via Grantchester. Quick pint in the Blue Ball Inn - fantastic pub

Witch mark on a staircase at Peterhouse College, Cambridge

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Garden rose

Great trip to the RSPB reserve at Fen Drayton. Saw a turtle dove, two cuckoos and a marsh harrier- quite pleased with that.

My son and his friends have been digging holes in the school playground again… Supposedly an escape tunnel!

Photos of flowers are not my specialty, but the peony in my garden is looking particularly lovely at the moment, and a few more flowers still to come

Just given a presentation with Julia Farley on our Snettisham book at the Musée des Celts in Libramont, Belgium. What a brilliant museum with such amazing staff. Really lovely to be invited and I can’t wait to come back.

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I thought I’d share my view each time I step outside my office - it’s great to be so connected to the galleries at MAA

Pootling around the archives at work today and came across this lovely water colour of the museum at Audley End. The museum was created by Richard Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke

Reflecting on the #IronAgeDialogues conference in Cardiff. It’s been such a long time since we’ve had a meeting like this and the organisers did a fantastic job bringing everyone together. It’s also left me with a lot to think about especially the richness of research and material about the Iron Age