Curious George. The Crystal Meth Years.

Going all fluxgate in Cranborne Chase.

‘You feel you’ve conquered the world’: a Thames swimmer on the river’s first bathing site in London www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

NUJ responds to Farage doxxing a photo journalist who was doing their job. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

It's a hard life but someone's got to do it

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#allotment #allotmentlife bottom of the allotment sorted. Headland cleared and new fenceposts (old scaffolding poles) in. Loganberries and tayberries tied in plus a splendid climbing rose in bloom. Shallots and spuds starting to produce growth. Thornless blackberry and bramble clearing tomorrow 😋

Currently reading about Lockley's pioneering days on Skokholm Island before the Second World War...😉😮 📷 The Island, Ronald Lockley, 1969 (... another name for Manx Shearwaters if you must know)

A recently recognised 80 metre #Neolithic long barrow near the coast at Southbourne in West #Sussex. To find out more, read this thread or check out this article: wp.me/pgKiQE-2r #Archaeology ... 1/10

Strands #795 “Go right ahead” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

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Love this 🤣

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#allotment slowly being knocked into shape 😎

Archaeologies of the Roman Mediterranean: Papers Presented in Honour of Professor Simon Keay / @kdstrutt.bsky.social , et al eds. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... #openaccess @bsrome.bsky.social @archaeopress.bsky.social @letizia-ceccarelli.bsky.social

Happy Star Wars Day!

On #openaccess co-edited with Anna Collar Paul Johnson and Katherine Crawford in honour of Prof. Simon Keay. Thank you to all of the colleagues and friends of Simon who contributed. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Afternoon up the #allotment. Bed cleared and onions planted. Shallots garlic and potatoes weeded. Lots more to do but the roses and globe artichokes have started.

Connections Puzzle #1056 🟪🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In that there London.

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Nice preprint paper on Roman and early med population. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Strands #787 “Fish or cut bait” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

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Connections Puzzle #1053 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Standing round not a thing in the US

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Connections Puzzle #1050 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Bloody hell.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Top medal. Wear it with pride 😁

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And the seasons swing around and spring properly arrives #allotment

Progress at the #allotment this afternoon. Still need to get main crop potatoes in though 😁

Connections Puzzle #1042 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Those Brexit benefits keep in giving. UK woman fears being stranded in Spain over new Home Office border rules www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Shallots finally coming through, plus garlic, and the beds in one plot looking better. Apple blossom coming in the dwarf pyramid apples, and I finally managed to start joining hands with some of the apple trees for support #allotmentlife

A few hours up the plot getting the second early seed potatoes in. Earlier this week international Kidney and Charlotte in. Today Kestrel and Nicola. Desiree, Nadine and King Edward still to go. Some using comfrey, others with beautiful well rotted manure #allotmentlife

Another worthwhile read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A decent read on the frothing loony bin that is the USA and its government 🙄 Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Done.

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More graft up the plot 😊

Some nice days on the Isle of Purbeck

Strands #762 “Early risers” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵

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