Today in #Somerset it's #PunkieNight Read all about it here! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You start thinning your book collection & this happens...more space for new material! Mix of new from #AdrianJWebb #Somerset & some 2ndhand stuff. The road book describes the condition of roads. The author would have a field day nowadays! The clear out continues though payhip.com/LynneCleaver...

Lots of new items added to my store - postcards, photographs and ephemera collected whilst researching for my publications #Tetbury #Taunton #Gloucestershire #Somerset #books #postcards

Day 1 of selling my library, 3 sold, thank you to those purchasers. I hope that you find the works invaluable in your research. All sorts of gems in there offering background info that doesn't date. @pharostutors.bsky.social @sogorg.bsky.social @ihgs.bsky.social payhip.com/LynneCleaverAuthor

I am selling off a lot of my #genealogy #familyhistory #IHGS books used for my studies and own research over the years @ihgs.bsky.social payhip.com/LynneCleaver...

I asked perplexity to show me something random and it came up with some lovely quirky things...

A rather touching gravestone in the churchyard at Clovelly

Today these arrived a good month ahead of official publication!

For those that like #heraldry #latin #monumentalinscriptions #mi #genealogy here's a wonderful bit of church bling! #Stogursey #Somerset

BBC News - Failed uprising remembered 340 years after Somerset battle - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This. Yesterday morning in the garden taken with the wildlife camera.

Nice surprise in the bank account today #ALCS payment far surpasses that of the royalties from the publisher. Thank you @alcs.co.uk #author #publishing #royalties #writer #book

An early spring walk up and down the local lanes..

Historic England acquires collection featuring some of UK’s oldest photos 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I run a small photography group in #Watchet We have recently launched a website after using a private Facebook group since we began several years ago. Our challenge this month is #moss #lichen #macro sanctuarysnappers.weebly.com/monthly-chal...

In the UK? Do you use local authority archaeological services - planning, Historic Environment Records, Museums Services? If so and you would like to contribute to a survey considering the future of these services please see the survey linked below: 🗃️

Viewed the most extraordinary parish register today. The early 18th century clerk had entered the baptisms, marriages and burials in alphabetical order...but by Christian name! Onto the pages with very few entries a later clerk had entered the C17 entries in chronological order. #chaos #jobfail

200 hours (recorded, there may be more not logged), 28k words, 351 A4 pages and my last complete Family History is delivered for Christmas as promised. This is 6 generations back on each line starting from my client. Should keep them quiet over Christmas #geneaology #familyhistory

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

#TurnipPrize2025 #Somerset #Art The winner of the annual Turnip Prize is announced www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerse...

Anyone buying books through payhip.com/LynneCleaver... can claim a 20% discount throughout 29th/30th November by using the code BlackFriday

Thanks to a posting last week in which I discovered Payhip I now have an online shop through which I can sell my books. Thanks @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Post you from a different era. 1982. Haven't changed one bit...no way!

Age yourself with your first computer. Dragon 32 - failure to save game to cassette tape often caused late return to work and OH to nearly miss bus for work!!

A total of 342 recorded hours plus however many not noted, plus time taking #photographs (a few day trips) my work on #Taunton is submitted to the publisher 2 weeks ahead of deadline. #author #writing #researcher #localhistory #Somerset

It may be pouring down with rain but there's a blackbird in a jasmine bush next to the window singing its heart out. #simplethings

Yrs researching: 40 Hobbyist or pro: retired pro, returning to hobbyist Fun fact/Wildest discovery: my grandfather recalling that he walked around a graveyard with his grandfather as an 8 year old. His grandfather was born in 1822, sort of blew my mind at the time

This morning I'm heading out to the #AGRASouthWest network group and catching up with local genies from Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire @timeaftertimefh.bsky.social #genealogy #familyhistory #localhistory #professionalresearchers #AssociationGenealogists&ResearchersinArchives

Message in a bottle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is anyone having difficulty/problems getting the #ProbateSearchService to work? Tried two different browsers now and it keeps freezing. Managed to get one in the basket but with a long list of 20 to do life's too short to waste time messing around. #frustration #genealogy