On a miserable June day in the north of Scotland I thought we should all see a nice bit of harl and limewash against a lovely blue sky on the island of Egilsay, Orkney @limefinishesgroup1.bsky.social

Restored late-medieval wall painting of St Clement with his anchor. (He was drowned by being thrown into the sea tied to an anchor). Church of St James the Great, South Leigh, Oxfordshire. 📸2026

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

Travelers. Musicians. Children. Some chickens. A very tame country inn (nobody is even drinking!) by Isaac van Ostade, #BTD 1621.

Happy #WorldBicycleDay to all who celebrate 🚴 #PhotographicArchives

A Gwynedd slate quarry Caban…a communal shelter and the intellectual and spiritual heart of quarry culture. Low buildings, complete with a fireplace (now buried). Lime finishes made with slate aggregates were crucial to the comfort of these crude shelters in the exposed uplands of Eryri!

Wheal Coates is a former tin and copper mine on the Cornish Coast, near St. Agnes. We can see that there is a lime coating (much eroded) that was lined out, to give a more uniform appearance 🤩

Inverness at its best

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I love this blue tit in a nest box photos. The lighting and framing makes me think of a renaissance portraits.

When out looking at churches, don’t forget to look out for remnants of lime finishes! A large number were once plastered and limewashed (and who knows, maybe decorated externally, too?) 🤩 Pictured: St. Andrew’s Church, Barton Bendish, Norfolk.

This must have looked fabulous painted.

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Every year I collect acorns from around and about but this year we put them in bags of soil and covered them on the workshop roof and survival and germination is spectacular. I even managed to remember to name which trees they are from. Big time guerrilla planting over this next week

The surviving interior decorative plaster in the ruin of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, in Derbyshire, is fantastic - created by Italian master plasterers, Arturi and Vassali, in the early 18th century, it has managed to cling on despite the odds 😍

The lovely Fauconberg Arms in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, now bare stone but once lime coated, as we can see from archive images and physical evidence on the building (which survives particularly well behind the current sign!) 😀

Sadly damaged frescoes in Hall of the Liberal Arts & Planets, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno. Must have been amazing when Gentile da Fabriano first painted them! Today is his day.

The Doom painting (14c) in Lutterworth Church, Leicestershire.

Never trust a small builder

Good to see early career speakers encouraged

Cooling off

My Grandfather’s watch, a present from Grandma. I still wear it for special occasions

The lined out lime serenade

This is ridiculous, I never go anywhere without my Act of Parliament. Outrageous suggestion!

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

Oh dear 😉

After many years of work and research I have returned bread making and then found this image on Pinterest which I believe demonstrates two things: no matter how hard I try, lime finishes are every present and secondly I am unequal the lengths that others go to produce the perfect loaf.

Saint Zenobius praying for a miracle before A+ cityscape. Grieving mother is also a powerful figure. From predella of the Saint Lucy altarpiece by Domenico Veneziano. Today is his day.

5/5 Ely Cathedral 2 To finish this second set from #ElyCathedral, here's a view from inside the octagonal Lantern in the roof. The painted panels open and give you this view. The glass and painting is Victorian. #OMsystemOM1 #fourthirds #Olympus7_14f4 #photography #churchphotography

Chaplin's, Boscombe, Dorset #PubFrontFriday

It is difficult not have the utmost respect for a Culbokie crofter

A good example of how economic, politic, legal events combine with environmental events not just a storm surge or sea level rise also a dynamic coast in which natural coastal features such as dunes are ever changing. Culture also, pamphlets had a religious doom and repent message.

A dusty starling hit the door. It's OK, I popped it into a box for half an hour and it flown away - I can hear the chicks greedy for food.

From a couple of years ago, I dedicate these images of wriggly tin.

I'll just leave this here.

For those of who still listen to the Average White Band they need no introduction but for any of you who are unfamiliar with them this is a great heads up. youtu.be/FIhGvywlXVc?...

Happy Mother's Day

The Pineapple c.1761 Airth. Imagine it painted and indeed there are traces of paint and paint ground still present on the columns. Also interesting that the tradition continued into the 19th century as seen here in the local churchyard.

I wonder if this is archaeological evidence or something to be ploughed through to access archaeological evidence?

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