The ‘Knife Angel’ in Welwyn Garden City today. Impressive.

Here's a tale for anyone who'd like to know what I've been up to over the last year... and if you're able to help/share, I'd really appreciate it. Autistic StoryTime – Classical Studies Support share.google/0XfKZucMCoAr...

My latest random thoughts - enjoy

Latest blog post. I am very nervous about this one as I feel it's a bit 'out there' but it is how my mind works sometimes. But then I very much enjoyed thinking about it and writing it and you never know it might not be as barking at I think.. but there again. classicalstudiesman.com/2025/10/04/_...

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 is here again. Day 1: Hypnos Silent river flows, Hypnos drapes the world in shade— dreams bloom, soft as dusk.

I am now age assured whatever that means on Bluesky now. That was fun although getting the facial recogition to work was a bit of a bind.

My latest musings. Don't know how good it is but I enjoyed it which is the point I suppose and I did find it a bit of an eye opener. classicalstudiesman.com/2025/07/25/h...

Something else for the list at Pompeii www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

A long time coming but for the first time we’re having a concerted effort to grow patio clematis and sweet peas in pots, and they’re just beautiful. Why did we wait so long? #tinyjoys

Next door have got a couple of bee hives so we thought we’d grow some wild flowers for them. There seems to be quite a lot if the same except in the middle there’s this one red flower, no idea what it is but I think the colour is beautiful. Does anyone know? #tinyjoys #flowers

My latest blog effort - a bit of a travelog, some Roman archaeology and a couple of personal photos. Any comments gratefully received #archaeology #classical #roman classicalstudiesman.com/2025/06/06/b...

I don't know why all the media are saying Mt Etna is erupting when they should know it is just Typhon getting restless #classical #myth

Our Sage is flowering in the herb garden and so many busy bees #tinyjoys

Apparently very common and the hairs can irritate but it’s so pretty. Brown-tailed moth caterpillar (I think)

I love the sound of a cuckoo, this is from five years ago but I heard one this morning - the sound feels so English countryside #tinyjoys

✨📜NEW POETRY!📜✨ We love this concise reminder of why we love the ancient world, from @smallemily.bsky.social A brilliant antidote to... well... *indicates in all directions* www.workingclassicists.com/zine/a-carni...

Finding a new plant that wasn’t there last year bravely jostling with the other foliage under the weeping cherry tree, don’t know what it is (although I’m sure someone does) or how it got there #tinyjoys

Yaayyyy first trip to Athens being booked as we speak and am looking for recommendations for hotels within walking distance of the Acropolis gratefull received. Thanks in anticipation. #Athens #Acropolis

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Last week we spent a couple of days in Chester and here are my thoughts with a selection of places and objects that caught my eye. I hope it is a memory jogger for those who have been and might prompt those who haven't to go - it is definitely worth it classicalstudiesman.com/2025/04/16/t...

New episode out - bad poetry, bad behaviour and hot walnut shells. Time to continue with Dionysius I of Syracuse. #ancientgreece #sicily sites.libsyn.com/105935/ancie...

Hey dumbass - tariffs aren’t payed by suppliers. Who’d have thunk it? Belt up and hang on, this is just the start www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey dumbass - tariffs aren’t payed by suppliers. Who’d have thunk it? Belt up and hang on, this is just the start www.bbc.com/news/article...

A blog piece on my visit to London's Mithraeum. #ancientrome #mithraeum ancientblogger.com/london-mithr...

'Leicester students' Roman villa excavation to feature on Time Team'

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Trump comes to his senses. April fool jokes are just too obvious nowadays.

Home Thoughts, from Abroad Robert Browning Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now!

If only you could hear the noise of the bees from next door’s hive enjoying one of their first feeds of spring on our flowering Cherry, amazing and I thought I’d just throw in a pic of the Magnolia as well. #tinyjoys

Here you go.

With Spring well under way in the northern hemisphere, here’s a beautiful garden scene to cheer the spirits: birds happily chirping, verdant foliage, clear blue skies. 📍 House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii 📷 mine #FrescoFriday

You will learn the correct, white history. Omg this is beyond chilling www.bbc.com/news/article...

Daffodowndilly AA Milne She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: "Winter is dead."

Saw this claim recently quoted in The bloody Times, no less, so let's take a critical look: did gladiators make themselves obese on purpose? Ancientbluesky ancientalexandra.weebly.com/gladiators/w...

Iron Age hoard now on display with Mediterranean influences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If it was not so hypocritical and tragic it would be funny, You really couldn't make this stuff up. Genuine question, is there any point to COP and how much footprint does it make each year? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Due to popular demand, the talk has been moved to a bigger venue and once again has tickets available to purchase!

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. Aristophanes Plutus (569-570)

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.” Aristophanes The Knights (lines 864-865) #ClassicsBluesky

On International Women's Day I would like to remember the women of Afghanistan, not just their bleak everyday life www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0... but how difficult it is to fight for rights. So I would also like to remember Iran's millions of Medeas from 2022 www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iranso...

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. Aristophanes Knights (line 485)

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes The Knights (Line 217) #ClassicsBlueSky

A bit slow off the mark BBC but better late than never. A good example of knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Not far from where I live, I should start digging up the garden to see what’s there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ClassicsBluesky