We were still submitting essays into a box when I did my PGCE in 2013-14!

Its here! The first ever Ancient Times, our new zine covering everything stone related and beyond. This issue contains French Megaliths, Daniel Gumb, Flint, Stonehenge, Druids and more! 40 pages of stone-mania. Copies will be shipped in October. stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

By the way, the great @timeteam.bsky.social rewatch seems to have sort of ended with the last series, that isn’t on the official channel, but I found elsewhere. However, a few eps were missing. Like, this one that went up recently. Have I seen it? 1/2

I go to church with my mum about once a month. It’s an Anglo-catholic church so lots of smells, bells and sung bits. I also go to see where my Dad’s are, give him an update, and light a candle here in the Lady Chapel in front of where we sit. On a sunny day, the light is beautiful.

Feel like I just try and plug things on here instead of engaging but anyway… I have this YouTube channel. It’s a random mess of stones stuff, music stuff and videos about my van, Sven. But, if subscribing to YouTube channels is a thing you do, there’s probably something interesting there…

If you haven’t seen this, do have a look. If only to see my amazing special effects skills… #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #wales #ufo #aliens #welshroswell #roswell #meninblack

Stone Report S2 E6 - Moel Tŷ Uchaf. #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #wales @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @northernearth.bsky.social youtu.be/XbT-MOcHZwc?...

Who knows who sees these posts. But if you do, listen to this album…

New Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra cd. This is a cracker, 15 kids aged 9-16 coming on like a Huddersfield Sunburned Hand of the Man (other comparison suggestions welcome!). spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/timed-...

As seen at Stone Club for the first time last night

Stone Report S2 E6 - Moel Tŷ Uchaf. #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #wales @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @northernearth.bsky.social youtu.be/XbT-MOcHZwc?...

Spent an amazing week at @hcmfuk.bsky.social with these young people writing, shooting, scoring and sound designing this short film… youtu.be/9V3ejYlZpVw?...

Arthur’s Stone in the blazing sun last week… #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #dolmen #herefordshire

In the many years of Time Time there are surprisingly few Baldrick references. In fact, I can only think of this one… #timeteam @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social @timeteam.bsky.social

Can you spot me and Soundwave?

And now I am listening to this. The startlingly brilliant Outcrops, by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social

If you saw the recent review on @thequietus.com and @faroutmagazine.co.uk and want to explore further, this is a good starting point…

We make lots of these PPYO recordings and put them up on Bandcamp and I wouldn’t unless I thought they worth hearing. This is one I keep going back to as it’s so good… backupdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/we-tri...

Finally catching up on the last two episodes of Doctor Who and my niche observation is that it’s the first time I’ve seen Ineos Grenadiers used as military/police vehicles instead of Land Rovers.

Last night I dreamed I had to play bass for The Strokes wearing grey pinstripe flares, a white blouse and Kate’s straw hat. And with no rehearsal. Woke up just as I was about to go on stage. Watched a YouTube video of how to play the bass line to Last Night. Reckon I could’ve pulled it off.

Lanhill: This lesser known but wonderful long barrow lies behind a hedgerow to the south of the A420 just outside Chippenham, seen here in a photo from 1972. #TombTuesday Damaged when a false entrance was removed in 1909, the mound is still 56m long and nearly 4m high.

New Stone Report - Carreg Samson. Please go have a look and check out the others too! #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #tombtuesday #dolmen @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social youtu.be/g5zfEPdzsYk?...

New Stone Report premiering at @stoneclub.bsky.social at @thesociallondon.bsky.social tonight, then later on YouTube… where will It be? #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #dolmen

Last night I dreamed my (late) father was selling dodgy MacBooks as a sideline and this morning this ad was the first thing on my Insta…

Three string home made thing jams and a folk tale from Todmorden. Have a listen… spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/folklo... #todmorden #folklore #desertblues #calderdale

Thank you @thequietus.com for this amazing review of the new PPYO album! thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Do natural stones with names count for #standingstonesunday ?

New FFF zine and CD! #folklore #todmorden #calderdale #folkstory #yorkshire #littlepeople #fairies #mankinholes #theevestone

Folklore, Facts and Fables 5: the Eve Stone is up for pre-order. The zine is a folk story from Todmorden about a petty thief called Rob o’Harry’o’t’Deans, who gets his comeupppance after blaming this crimes on others. The music is sort of desert blues based around a 3 string fretless guitar thing…

I love these records that Mark makes with his primary school pupils up in the Calder Valley, experimental music, drones, unfiltered creativity without a waffling press release where a load of theory and buzzwords (or as my pal calls it, CV Inflation) acts as smoke screen for it not being very good

The new Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra album is out this week. Seven 7-11 year old kids making weird drums and drones explorations of mysterious places. That’s got to be worth checking out, right? spaceship.bandcamp.com/album/places...

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/

Fancy an album that lasts four fifths of a working week, including tracks by @darrenhayman.bsky.social @theleaflibrary.bsky.social @firestations.bsky.social @spaceshipmark.bsky.social I have just the thing wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...

Disaster strikes the Great Time Team rewatch! Missing episodes! What’s happening @timeteam.bsky.social ?

New PPYO. Four explorations of imaginary places by an ensemble of 7-11 year olds. Percussion, homemade bowed string instruments, open tuned guitar, whistles and synthesizer. Cd and digital. #ks2music #primarymusic #teachingmusic #todmorden #musiceducation #primaryteacher #calderdale #hebdenbridge

Coming soon…

Series 14 Episode 8 in the great Time Team rewatch. ‘No Stone Unturned’. We’ve finally reached this momentous moment… @timeteam.bsky.social #timeteam

Brand new Stone Report. Let’s investigate the Devil’s Arrows… #prehistory #megalithic #megalith #standingstone #neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #stonehenge #archaeology #yorkshire #northyorkshire @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social youtu.be/6ucz_BuWbGw?...

As if anyone needed a reason to subscribe to the excellent @northernearth.bsky.social journal, the current issue has a wonderful review of the Spaceship ‘Calderdale Trilogy’ by the estimable John Billingsley (as well as lots of other good stuff!). @wiaiwya.bsky.social

The geology film I’ve been wanting to make for ages and finally made. Ten minutes of sort-of animated deep time exploration of Todmorden with a soothing guitar soundtrack. #geology #deeptime #todmorden #calderdale #millstonegrit #guitar #looping

I made a film about the geological history of Todmorden and then played guitar over the top of it. You can watch it here if you like: youtu.be/Se43sJm20Tg?...

We went to Ribchester because sometimes it’s good to look at Roman things too…

Went to Ireland at the weekend. I failed to find a couple of megalithic sites due to them probably being on private land and unsignposted but Ireland’s tallest dolmen, Leac an Scáil came through. Got to go with one of oldest friends too, so double bonus.

Spore Collectors. Shirts available here- jakeblanchard.teemill.com

Weird thing about airports is people complaining about the queue at the gate when they have an allocated seat on the aircraft.

S13 E7 Matt’s being tortured again, this time as a lay brother in Yorkshire… @timeteam.bsky.social #timeteam

New vinyl on the doorstep when we got home, music ‘…describing the geological history of the Upper Calder Valley’ Spaceship - Structures (Wiaiwya, 2024) @spaceshipmark.bsky.social

Sometimes I just think; some people stood up some stones five thousand years ago, and they’re STILL THERE! I mean…

S12 E12 Is this the first time (of many) that Matt has to dress up and be, basically, tortured for 24 hours? @timeteam.bsky.social #timeteam

This kind of day.