I look at the hod empty and my back hurts.

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📌 #3 Added to playlist: "Midnight in Harlem" by Tedeschi Trucks Band

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More from the Covid recovery team

I’ve got Covid but I’m in good hands.

Exciting news…my online shop, selling some of my landscape photos, is now open! 😀 Please do have a look to see if anything takes your fancy and also let me know if there are any teething issues, as it’s all new to me. N.B. All prints come unframed www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Nort...

I think this is one of the most poignant photographs I have taken, an abandoned cottage on Benbecula deliquescing back into the landscape, while the bottles of a ruined life glint savagely on a bright cold day. c.1999.

@bsky.app Groined ceiling at Fort George, Inverness with traces of limewash.

William Melville, Lord Tongland (died 1613), a somewhat forgotten Scottish diplomat sent to Henry of Navarre, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

I was thinking about how much joy this gave me as child.

Historic graffiti recording yesterday, out of all of it, this I found most stirring. Couple of youngsters up the tower scratched their names into the lead of church roof, alongside their evacuation year. One of them I found is a new find #archaeology #history #WWII #graffiti #church #London #Devon

My fave feature from today & a nice follow on from last night LFG talk by Joe Thompson. This is an inserted/altered stack with 17thc repurposed beam, flipped & incised in the 18thc to mimic a brick segmental lintel. Love spotting cheap, resourceful upgrades #buildingsarchaeology #archaeology #LFG

How much historic colour are we missing colour from our streets? #history #colour #paint #LFG #archaeology

Consumed wriggly tin.

#31DaysOfGraves day 30 - colour. Intrigued by the blue pattern on the top of George Powys’s (c1856-1925) gravestone at Berrington #Shropshire. No other like it there.

An important and overdue piece of research - hopefully just the first - which will inform future development in both sectors. 🙌

I love the timelessness of covering buildings and people unable to resist throwing snowballs. A detail from the Cycle of Months, Eagle Tower, Castelo del Buoconsiglio, Trento. Maestro Venceslao, c1405 –1410. Our thanks to Vrinda Jariwala , Vivienne Whyte , Sarah Mayfield for their LFG talks.

Twisted tree growing from where the Old Castle Lachlan meets the earth and overlooking Loch Fyne on the Cowl Peninsula.

Multiple layers of limewash.

We fell out - ran off in the woods this morning.

This is just perfect, tiles bedded in a thick lime plaster and at ground level, where there are likely to be salts, a thick coarse plaster which has been lined out. Guimaraes, Portugal.

More from Guimarães - I mean phwoar! Strange and intimidating delivering an interdisciplinary paper to a wholly scientific audience, but I enjoyed the feedback.

Went looking for a local beer in Guimarães and got lost but found this on the route back. They make so much sense in this climate.

Top decorative windows. Sad dereliction.

@limefinishes.bsky.social Saw these lovely wooden buildings on a website about the place in Ukraine where the Ruskies are occupying a nuke plant (Zaporizhzhia)

Arrived in Guimaraes in Portugal to give our paper. The tiles are set in a really thick coat of lime plaster. If your going to god stuff at least do it with panache.

Porto just now.

This could be really important for the housing stock.

Heading out to Guimarães in Portugal to present our paper on pressure difference and the positive impact of complete lime finishes and have been told I need to smarten myself up and do @curatorkate.bsky.social and I credit. #Heritage #LimeMortar #ClimateChange #LimeFinishes

William Street, Kilkenny.

Absolutely loved this film! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBH1...

I just love this video. It reminds me of the farm set I had as a child.

The absolutely stunning 15th century frontage to the former White Hart Inn, on the market square in Newark, Nottinghamshire 🤩 More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…

I love the way they get so completely zonked out at this age

Got my printed photos and some frames today to have a go at what looks best…nearly ready to launch my little online shop, hopefully in time for people to do some Christmas shopping! 😀 Here’s a very small selection…

✏️ Akhisar, Manisa, 1800s (Western Türkiye)

One of those days when I managed to combine the two essentials of any journey, scones and some top lime pointing, in this case a nicely detailed raised ribbon at the River Bothy at the bottom of the Berridale Braes, Caithness and Sutherland.

People of Glasgow! Join me on Sunday 9th November as I talk about Roman Scotland and my book The Road to Mons Graupius as part of the Aye Write festival at the Mitchell Library at 12.45pm - get your tickets here: www.visitscotland.com/info/events/... #RomanFortThursday

Top lined out lime pointing and a wee ghost sign thrown in for good measure in Wick. Thanks to @lillyh.bsky.social for showing me around this languishing but great town with 💯potential.

Salisbury’s 25p a bar

The tip of a rig seemingly appearing from nowhere.

Here's a a melting set of railings for you from Tiree.

I caught and released a Treecreeper from the workshop

Where is the best place in Wick that's open next Monday or Tuesday for coffee and scones @lillyh.bsky.social or anyone else who is particular about these things?

Finally got the floor down. Thank Christ I don’t do this for a living.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

A lovely 14th century ogee arched doorway framing the disused rood stairs in the Church of St. Nicholas, Swineshead, Bedfordshire 😍