The Christmas tree and it’s decorations are up and I have moved the Nativity set of nesting dolls to the central section of the shelving unit where I have placed them along with the 2 angels from the two Easter sets over on the right of the central section of the shelving unit. 1/

Prominent neuropathologist explains that there's tons of scientific research that shows that Covid causes brain damage. Margaret: What can we do to help ourselves? 🙃🙃🙃🙃 Sixth year of this goddamn ongoing pandemic and if "wear a respirator in public" isn't super fucking obvious to you... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

I have a new Sunday Essay on Substack about Allhallowtide: substack.com/@haighleaghw...

It's just the beginning...

Wishing everyone a peaceful Halloween/ All Hallows Eve / All Hallowtide / All Saints Day / All Souls Day / Dias De Los Muertos. Photo: my Halloween/ All Hallows Eve / All Hallowtide / All Saints Day / All Souls Day / Dias De Los Muertos display in the corner of my lounge.

I have a new Sunday Essay on Substack about this week’s historic meeting and prayers in the Sistine Chapel between Pope Leo XIV & HM King Charles III: substack.com/@haighleaghw...

I have a new Substack essay: substack.com/@haighleaghw...

I unearthed this recently. Taken by a talented photographer friend of mine in the 80s, it's of a stone circle near Nannerch in Flintshire. It's an oddity because it's not mentioned by local expert Ellis Davies in a work of 1949 and Aubrey Burl dismisses it as a folly. [Cont: #StandingStoneSunday

I have a new Sunday Essay on Substack- The Moon substack.com/@haighleaghw...

I have a new Sunday Essay on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/haighlea...

Unwell and unsure if we have COVID-19? Avoid contact with vulnerable people, stay home if possible.  Wear a well-fitting face covering. Avoid crowded places + anywhere enclosed or poorly ventilated. Vaccines remain our best defence. Checkout blog @ukhsa.bsky.social ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/25/s...

WFH is an accommodation that lets me do really great work! Denying it as potentially disability accommodation will cheat you of great employees

Typical. You're having a nice walk in the countryside and suddenly it's ruined by Bloody... Mary

One of my students did fieldwork in Oaxaca and brought back a present! Not for me. For Narasimha, my office Shaligram. Who now sports a perfectly-sized, hand-made, Oaxacan festival hat!

Greetings from Kyiv, where it is calm, and the sun is still generously warm. How is it where you are? Anything beautiful around you?

I have a new Substack post. This week’s Sunday Essay Is about Pope Leo and Sacred Geography: substack.com/@haighleaghw...

Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧 Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸 At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊ They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀

Latest 🎯🧵 by Zdenek Vrozina on #LongCovid prevalence: "New mega–meta-analysis on #LongCOVID ever prevalence. Long COVID has affected 36% of people after a COVID-19 infection worldwide. South America: 51% Europe: 39% Asia: 35% USA: 29%🧵" Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19671...

The Spooky Season is upon us. I, for one, welcome our macabre overlords.

Hey Musk, If it's allowed that an American citizen like you can use X to call for the overthrow of the British government, then you won't object if I, a Dutch citizen, use X to call for the overthrow of the Trump administration, because you're a free speech absolutist. Or did I misunderstand you?

I have a new post on Substack my second of my essays reflecting on the summer of MMXXV: open.substack.com/pub/haighlea...

I have a new Sunday Essay on Substack about my visits during the summer to Old Winchester Hill: open.substack.com/pub/haighlea...

Wishing dear Br Hugh blessings on the anniversary of his profession 🙏🏻 I remember Brother Hugh I met him when I was on retreat at Hillfield in November 1989. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ezj...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

#ancientbluesky #history #skystorians No matter how long I work in archaeology and history, every time I hear "mysterious ancient tablet...", the Indiana Jones music starts playing in my head. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

Long Covid plagues 400 million worldwide. COVID has had more dangerous and widespread effects than flu: Long COVID damages lungs, heart, metabolism, gut, kidneys, brain, and mental health. An estimated 400 million people affected globally, costing $1 trillion, 1% of global GDP. archive.md/eZezE

My view is very different from the one presented by the press and I’m not a Doctor but have been a Covid advocate for 5 years. I have read thousands of studies and spoken to many long covid sufferers over that time. I don’t believe people are fully recovering. We need to think of there being two 🧵

One of the things that jumped at me from this excellent piece was the contempt many academics have for meetings. Most of my current work centres around meetings. Even in relatively equal settings they are important for doing good heritage work. Addressing inequalities has to begin with meetings >

This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall... storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd... #WallsOnWednesday

📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Clovelly Dykes: A complex series of earthworks covering more than 20 acres (8.1 ha) #HillfortsWednesday situated on the high plateau behind the coast - one of the largest and most impressive Early Iron Age hill-forts in Devon. Excavations were most recently carried out in 2018 and 2019.

Over on Substack Ben Lockwood says we need to chose between Capitalism & Ecology: substack.com/@briefecolog...

This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4

We imagine our pals @butserancientfarm.co.uk would be interested in knowing whether you know of anyone willing to hold their pint.

I have just published an essay on Substack - my final instalment in my series Alfred & the Leonine City.’ open.substack.com/pub/haighlea...

Poem from England

Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!! Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...

The ECHR creates a backstop of legal appeals against changes to UK Laws. Without it the Government could scrap the State Pension, Minimum Wage, Working Hour Limits and Paid Holiday in 1 day and there is nothing you could do. This is exactly what Farage would do.

Happy #internationaldogday from Pip and me in the car on Old Winchester Hill the actual spot where we had our second cuddle in the evening of Tuesday 6th August 2019 after I had collected Pip from her breeder and the stopped for fish & chips darling Buster ate the fish tail and some of the fish yum!

A very hungry planet! 🪐 What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞 Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/ 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets 📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.

We are in a lot of trouble in the UK open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, who had COVID just 3 weeks ago and is still not fully recovered, admitted her lungs “aren’t really working yet.” She said her physicality wasn’t great but wanted to play to finish the season with a Grand Slam, not because “COVID caught” her.

A dystopian future in which manufactured AI ghosts trap you in their idea of "the 80s," seducing you to stay until your entire concept of reality is eroded and your personality has been used to train the next generation of AI Hauntology in overdrive

In 1903, a 4th c AD #Roman mosaic was uncovered from a villa at Fifehead Neville #Dorset The central roundel (of a deity?) was recorded by Mary Hartley in a painting now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social Unfortunately, this bit of the floor was taken by souvenir hunters shortly after 😱 #MosaicMonday

@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social this will be of interest

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including freelance journalist who worked for AP.