Thanks to @durotrigesdig.bsky.social realised I used the wrong hashtag #hillfortswednesday. DOH!

For #hillfortwednesday some photos of our fieldwork this summer at #OldSarum @archsoton50.bsky.social an amazing site and landscape with a univallate hillfort adapted through time.

The front garden this morning. Tiny delicate violas and Michaelmas daisies.

Autumn colour starting up the plot #allotmentlife lots to eat for this week with cima di rapa, earthing up the celery and harvesting the last of the potatoes.

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Those Brexit dividends keep on giving. EU plan to match Trump steel tariffs spurs ‘existential threat’ to UK steel industry www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Available at @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social under call number 21.6(73) HEIA 133885 #BannedBooksWeek

If only my allotment was as tidy as this! 😂😬

George found a massive frog and named it Geoffrey.

Moonlight over Clausenrum and the river Itchen.

The winter store is starting to fill up nicely 🎃

Remember folks, those who suffer from bubbles are rarely those who inflate them. The subprime bubble of 2008 precipitated the massive wealth transfer we've seen since. It's a double confidence trick. Make a load of phony money, then demand that governments gut real services to protect the rich.

Mrs Bouquet has kicked the bouquet.

It's all getting a bit autumnal.

The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE. As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social hantsplants.uk/floranews.php

😞 Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Yup. Stop trying to out-fascist the fascists @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Started the #allotmentlife #pumpkin harvest. The first few with maybe six or seven more still growing.

This afternoon on the @archsoton50.bsky.social field trip Old Sarum. A good bunch of students 😊

Great Y1 and PGT @archsoton50.bsky.social field trip today. First up Josh Pollard at Avebury!

Connections Puzzle #837 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,559 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The Fash were out again.

A rare good news story. Proof that investing time and energy as well as money in young people can turn lives around. Your access to university should not be predicated on your ability to pay

Strands #566 “Dire straits” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

I’ll be discussing 20 years of geophysical research by the @bsrome.bsky.social & partners next Monday 22 September at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Ögedei Khan, third son of Genghis, was proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire #OnThisDay in AD 1229. Most-famous for continuing his father's expansionist policies, he was also a gifted administrator, founding the Mongol capital city of Karakorum. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺#Archaeology

The US is on the brink of another era of political violence – and Donald Trump ‘couldn’t care less’ | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A lot of Fash in that there London today.

Today's rather wet and rainy office

Whatever else is going on in the world right now, please take a moment to enjoy & RT this entry in the flower & veg show part of the Chew Stoke Harvest Home today. Wasn’t even placed

The latest Tory to defect to Reform is Chris Mason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hey, does anyone want a real scandal? I've got some ideas.

Essential reading currently.

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Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Good morning.

Go away for a bit and flippin' heck!

The wonderful Angela Stienne jas made one of John J Johnstones’s talk / intros live & its on #drwho #doctorwho Pyramids of Mars. Perfect meeting of his who & egyptology. Please share @0tralala.bsky.social etc www.mummystories.com/single-post/...

Been in the Leicester University library and the local community library physically 😊

Strands #545 “No small matter” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵