Evan Davis seems to have given up on bothering with a proper debate. Let’s all just shout! #BBCPM

Noted Surrey colony of at-risk swifts destroyed during nesting season

I really hope not. It’d be very triggering for so many women. #TheArchers

Does anyone other than #bbcnews (who seem obsessed) give a flying damn what TB thinks?

To bring a smile to your face A 2,000 year-old figurine of two ‘Dancing Dogs’ 🐾❤️ Blackware ceramic, Colima, West Mexico, 200 BC - 200 AD. 📷 Princeton University Art Museum #Archaeology

Feeling irrationally happy for Kylie. Great trouper.

If you win a money prize for coming first in some TV show and you are wealthy isn’t the convention that you donate the money to your favourite charity?

Just travelled on train with a group of 12 year old? girls. They were in Friday afternoon hysterics the whole journey. I wanted to say “nothing will EVER be as funny again as it is now. Laugh while you are more carefree than you may ever be again.” Then I felt quite sad.

Whitby at night, photo by Denise Bartlett.

Does that Evan Davis ever actually listen to answers? Over and over again: “yeh, but could a white tailed eagle pick up a sheep?” #BBCPM Ignoring the fact that research shows they mostly eat fish along the south coast.

I was a voracious reader of David Attenborough’s books like this borrowed from the weekly library in the village hall when I was little. (Thanks, Cheshire County Libraries) But don’t let’s forget this man was also Controller of BBC Two from 1965-9! What a person!

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

😭Sad news😭 The authorities have finally caught up with us so this will be our last post on BlueSky. It's been a blast and we love you all. Especially our BFF @merchantshallyork.org 🥰🥰 Keep up with the posting, everyone. Together you can conquer the scourge of work-based productivity...

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McSweeney: "We procured two strong candidate for [the PM]: One was Mandelson and the other was George Osborne." Christ above. What did the weak candidates look like.

Bloody BBC. Another report on #LondonMarathon talks about elite runners & “fun runners”. They are not doing it for “fun”. Many will have been training for 6 months, collecting money for charities etc. The BBC seems to think everyone does it in a humorous costume like it was bloody It’s a Knockout!

Minor milestone achieved - for the 1st time since treatment ended (4 months ago) I felt up to doing #parkwalk at #hovepromenadeparkrun. Came in penultimate finisher at 55min 12 secs. So. How soon til the fatigue will let me run at least PART of it? #onebloodydayatatime

Who had the Falkland Islands on their bingo card?

Wow. Never knew that roasting potatoes, feta, oil, honey, apple cider vinegar, rosemary, and rhubarb, with a crunchy topping of almonds and oats was so marvellous.

@sussexwildlife.bsky.social The link you put on the paper version of the Members Survey 2026 (& the QR code) link to a Wildlife Survey, not the members survey! What is the correct link - I can’t find it on the site. Thanks

Former textile mill, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds awarded £243k from the National Heritage Lottery Fund to protect fragile hand bound books containing samples of dyed wool fibres dating from 1888 to 1908. 👇 BBC News - £250k funding for historic mill project in Leeds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The self-help market for writing is saturated with gurus and big promises, which might partly account for the lack of success of my own How To Write course, where I do nothing except tell you to fuck off for 20 years, read a shitload of books and write in whatever way you want to.

Thank you neighbour. What a great idea to put your crap out in the street and block the access to the food composting bin!

Fantastic box hedge at #arundelcastletulipfestival The tulips were pretty good, too.

Wondering if we’ve overdone the tulips and daffs this week.

So that’s it. Farewell HCBs. No seasonal bakery item now until mince pies in December. Or am I missing something?

V interesting lecture by @rakshadigs.bsky.social at #SussexArchaeologicalSociety on public archaeology & public involvement, deftly chaired by @pittsmike.bsky.social Still talking abt it now we’re home. Lots of questions raised abt conflict of “facts” & “storytelling”. Is that what podcasts do?

OK. So the new “learn a new skill to keep your brain working” for me is the continental style of #knitting - & hopefully learning two-colour knitting using a different hand for each colour. This is going to be fun after 60? years of “non-continental” knitting. #nimbleneedles videos look pretty good.

Reading a 1966 history PhD thesis is interesting on a 'meta' level. Huge amount of newspaper & census, poll books etc research - in an era of unsearchable microfilm/original bound copies. But interesting that the resulting thesis is a narrative with v little discussion of wider historiography. #PhD

North Norfolk coast never disappoints

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.' www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

Old Ladybird Books updated (1976). Oops. When you find out a bit late that their helmets didn’t have horns Artist: Roger Hall

Busy day. Fantastic production of The Seafarer at Putney Arts Theatre. And we managed a couple of hours at WWT Barnes in the morning.

Back to the #Archives today. I’d forgotten that vizzing through microfilm can bring in a vertigo attack. Luckily I remembered in time and looked away!

Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield. It is devastating to see. These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure. Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

Entered the Brighton Workhouse today. Luckily it is now Brighton General Hospital. Not been there before. (Physio appt)

My 1967 copy of Wuthering Heights is looking a bit sad. The sellotape holding the back and front on has gone hard and fallen off. Amongst all the current hype around the film, I want to read it yet again to remind myself what a horrific tale of obsession it is. Maybe finally a time for a new copy?

Whoever does PR for #BritishMuseum has done a great job with #BBCRadio4 on the Samurai exhibition. 3 pieces on the exhibition in 2 days! And those are just the bits I heard.

The Dorestad Brooch ~ Found in 1969 at the bottom of a well, probably ending up there after one of the many viking raids that plagued Dorestad, a major trading hub on the River Rhine close to the North Sea. Created around 775–800 AD, during the reign of Charlemagne.

Once upon a time “global warming” was all about vineyards in North Yorkshire. Nowadays “climate crisis” means wet and windy. All the time. (And I’m not even in the worst-hit areas)

Lovely talk from @markthebirder.bsky.social about the birds in Filey and Bempton, for the Brighton RSBP group. Such great bird photos.

Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier called Edna "suspected illegally killed". Was she killed & dumped at a windfarm in Northumberland as a ploy to cover up the crime? New blog ⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WilldifeCrime 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/19/s...

Gheeraerts: Thomas, can you hold the helmet like a regular person? Thomas: …

OK. Anyone want my Mrs Joyful Prize for Raffia work? Would swap for a Booker Prize, Oscar or similar.

I still love #DiggingForBritain but to me this series seems to be concentrating a bit too much on the “lovely treasures” side of archaeology. Not entirely a realistic picture.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

I don’t want to worry anyone but Digging for Britain has just said that the largest UK archaeological dig is currently taking place a stone’s throw from where MR James set A Warning to the Curious.