#victorian innovation never ceases to amaze me. If there was a process needing industrialising, scaling, and making more efficient, they found the solution. Exhibit #1: how Carlisle solved the tricky problem of polishing its turds. #ordnancesurvey #Map #manure #envhist #nneteenthcentury #History

Am enjoying being creative with my historical sources. Love the marbled #paper I am finding. Their naturally fluid forms and some of their colour palettes seem very apposite for the subject of #Sewage. #History #doubleexposure

With reference to my previous toot relating to people with surprisingly apposite involved somehow in #victorian #Sewage #farming I thought for the briefest moment today that I’d found another. Messrs Stinks of Small Heath. Then my palaeographical brain kicked in! #disappointment

The #joy of working in #archives. On Tuesday I found a reference to on Mr Crapper selling land to be used as part of Walsall’s sewage farm. Today I found a Henry Bladder providing horses, labour, and tools to the sewage farm at Malvern. Writing the #history of […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Sometimes life serves up a conundrum. This evening was one. What to watch on live #TV? (I don’t stream). So my choice was World Series #darts or Dvorak’s New World Symphony at the Proms. Went for the darts (you could have finished earlier Luke the Nuke) but earlier enough to enjoy the last of […]

Writing at pace to fill time and space. An academic’s life. It’s a load of bullocks, obviously. #cattle #History #ww1 #Nottingham #CowsOfMastodon

Been on my travels. A scene from Le Jardin Secret, hidden among the northern souks of #marrakesh, #morocco, #turtle #door #wood

#Birmingham challenged my predisposition to the #rural, and my dislike of the #urban, yesterday. I discovered a city and its people that I had not previously appreciated. Immense diversity, a warmth of reception, openness, curiosity, full of human authenticity […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

‘CO-OPERATIVE PERMANENT’. To paraphrase Heraclitus, permanence is an illusion; only change is real. Here’s some proof from #birmingham today. #philosophy

2024 royalties in for a #book I published in 2006. Grand total of 52p. Take that suckers! Eat my dust! #billionaires #club

In Leicestershire yesterday. Yes really. Soft, rolling, domesticated Leicestershire. But in hidden places the county shows off its much harder, jagged, wild character. A primordial scene created by stoneworkers’ chisels from a more recent past.

Suck Cess! Followed one of their lorries down the M69 today. What a company name! #Sewage

#fensterfreitag A detail of the remarkable work of contemporary stained#glass #Artist, Thomas Denny https://www.thomasdenny.co.uk/ This to be found in Leigh #church, Worcestershire.

Might make a series. ‘Tales from the Sewage Farm’. How about this for starters? Mr Dayman’s complaints were regular and made over the course of 20 years! Unfortunately his house was opposite the sewage outfall. #Sewage #smell #farming (Transcription in image Alt-Text)

Joyously in the #archives today. In #Devon Heritage Hub to explore the #nineteenthCentury records of Tiverton #Sewage #farm. #envhist #History (transcriptions in image Alt-text)

I normally keep quiet about this daily brain wake up exercise (aka time waster). But I haven’t achieved much in my life, so a whole year #Wordle streak is worth celebrating I think! 365 and counting.

A colleague reminded me that it was five years ago to the day that I posted this pastiche teen magazine #Photo #love story in another place. Lockdown Love. Enjoy! #cows #CowsOfMastodon I still miss 706617. She was a beautiful, inquisitive, and charming little heifer.

@Meanwhile_on_earth_One Have you found younger me on Time Team yet? 😉

The walled #kitchen #garden at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire was looking magnificent over the weekend. Especially the deep borders of Allium christophii (Star of Persia). My take. #doubleexposure.

Did Paul Simon predict the #future back in 1986? #Music #AI

As a #font fetishist I’m so disappointed with myself for buggering up the kerning on this new sign. Anyway (if you will forgive me for working at speed), everyone invited round my place this weekend if you find yourself in #Nottinghamshire and want to see my […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

John Bolding & Sons Co. “ONDO”. #edwardian #sanitation Encountered today in ‘Snowzell’. If you know the #gloucestershire accent you’ll know where to find it!

Behold! The first of my mighty mangel wurzels has germinated. Can’t express how excited I am to watch this monster grow over the next few months. #heritage #vegetables #Gardening #crops #Sewage #farming

In the magnificent ‘Orchard: a Year in England’s Eden’ Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates trace abundant life & occasional death through the seasons in one ancient #orchard in #Herefordshire. They are careful not to reveal its location. It’s too precious. But […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

#may is the month to sow your Mangel Wurtzels. I just have. Have you? #autumn monsters to come. This variety is the classic Long Red Mammoth beloved of #nineteenthCentury #Sewage farmers. #Gardening #roots #vegetables

I love a good wyrt. And they don’t come much better than the Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea). Looking glorious round these parts right now. #wildflowers #herbs #Flowers