I'm making a little list of all the types of food, spices & herbs available in Europe during the middle ages. Check it out and let me know if I missed any or should remove some. I can't cook to save my life, so the kitchen is an alien place to me ;) fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/m...

Today's Murder Report: A MURDER HAS OCCURRED. Impressive murder today, with 86 crows present in a fairly concentrated formation in Warley Woods.

Yolo the baby king vulture showing up for #SoggyChildSunday with his adorable crossed toes! 🪶

When you look for a source and the book says :

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

Finally saw this enough times to go & find the article, which is not quite as deranged as it sounds but does also include this masterpiece of understatement

In case your day needs some cute: a yaklet born just two days ago, and some fluffy youngsters enjoying the first sprouts of fresh spring grass

I'm not going to break the wheel.......I'm just going to play on the wheel........wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Down at the reservoir it is misguided coot season (at least, I always thought so, but apparently they only need the water level to stay this high for three weeks 🤞)

Please repost & help me find a home (UK) for Johnny. Needed through absolutely no fault of his own - details in alt text. Scottish Borders but will travel. Many thanks.

Your timeline has been blessed by the raven of Friday Fortune, wishing for you the best of weekends.

The Old Irish Poeme Pangur Bán - the beste poeme about readinge yn the same roome as a catte evir made. Original and translacioun ynto Englisshe at lynke: Fáelid-sem cu n-déne dul hi·n-glen luch inna gérchrub; hi·tucu cheist n-doraid n-dil, os mé chene am fáelid. www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/spokenword/i...

I am on the back seat of the bus, I can smell petrol or diesel and that very specific smell of dusty vehicle upholstery in the sun, and I am existentially confused ...

A lichen collage on seaside rock. Newfoundland, Canada. Includes Xanthoria (leafy yellow), Physcia (grey), Rusavskia (orange) and Polycaulinia (the other yellow lichen). #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Trees are voyeurs and incurable gossips. They perceive the world through slight vibrations in the air, like a combination of hearing and echolocation. Then this information is shared through root networks and discussed like it’s a tv show. And they’re all so excited for the series finale of you.

When the aliens made contact, we learned they had observed us for millennia. "Yes. We installed the magic soak on your moon around your 500BCE." "The what?" "To drain the natural magic, so you would focus on technology instead. But we have turned it off now." "Teach us!" "Er..." "You owe us!"

Well that'll teach me. I tried to improve on laughable and my second attempt was perilous

Currently sulking because it's not supposed to be tree pollen season yet

We are recruiting. If you want to find rare birds and witness spectacular falls & live among 30,000 Manx Shearwaters get your application in for the Bardsey Island Assistant job (Mar-Oct 2026) before 10 Dec. Apply here: tinyurl.com/2026-Assista... #RareBirdAlert #BardseyIsland #ConservationJob

Accidentally arrived at Asda five minutes before the doors open. There is a sparse little crowd. My we are *glum*.

If you want a digital image of a pet or person in time for Xmas - hmu!

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

The weather outside is tragic

With scientific hidden partition? Really? This is why I hate shopping.

FB, usually as scatter-brained as I am, has been trying to sell me support socks with single minded devotion for almost a fortnight.

Was at a family thing & was glommed onto by a 10yo with a camera (literally tied to his wrist for safekeeping) who wanted someone to pose for him by this pond / needed to gull an adult into supervising him so that he could go closer to it. Glad I fell for it since it made a lovely #SundayPixMirror

Wellington also loves books. She may think she's safe from Campion up there. (Aptly enough for #SundayPixBooks, Campion's litter mates are Wimsey and Maigret.)

It's funny how sometimes you set everything up right with your 'real' camera and get something meh, and sometimes you snap a quick phone pic rather than type up a list and the light just loves you #SundayPixBooks

Campion still lubs Wellington. Everyone else is still mystified (especially Wellington).

If anyone has good photographs of European goldfinches that they're happy for me to use as painting references, I'd be so grateful. Thank you. 💛 Please share among birders, if you would! 🙏🪶

Happy Birthday Wombat #SundayPixWombat #Glint

To give @wombat37.bsky.social a day off and as a thank you for all the years of #SundayPix we have had, share your pictures of him or anything that reminds you of him using the hashtags #SundayPixWombie #SundayPixWombat #SundayPixWombat37 PLEASE RT FAR AND WIDE! End

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

Planning permission has been granted for the first broch in 2000 years to be constructed in the Highlands

Technically Monday, but since I'm in denial about that, some #SundayPixLeaves

As long as the mention is of happy healthy great northern divers living their best lives, obvs

Sharing partly because Bardsey Obs is a beautiful place that does good work, but mainly because, thanks to Arthur Ransome, any mention of a great northern diver makes me smile, however tired and ohhelltonorrowismonday-ish I may be feeling.

And, apparently on this day eight years ago, taking some roses to drop off at Granny's grave, in passing. They were not roses that travelled well, but they just about made it. #SundayPixRailway

I forgot to post this for infrastructure a couple of weeks back, so it can be #SundayPixRailway even though Galton Bridge station is the least interesting part of it.

I was thinking I hadn't been near a #SundayPixRailway in ages, but then, there's this (though only the track's dedication to maintaining a steady elevation in the face of local conditions makes this obvious - it's slightly sinuous and surprisingly narrow)

Vaguely wondering how Tanner, big sprawly boy though he is, was managing to take up so much space ...

I would absolutely agree with this except that I looked it up on YouTube a while back and ... well what can I say? I was eight.

From the Oratory to Bishop Asbury's Cottage via my employer's AGM. That was quite a day. The cottage was closed, mind, because the 45 minute bus trip somehow took an hour longer than scheduled.

Today I spent a disproportionate amount of time on buses, due partly to a water supply issue closing my original destination, and partly to my inability to differentiate between Wednesbury and Wednesfield (the difference is crucial when deciding whether it is worth catching a bus to Wolverhampton).

This, on the other hand, has universally been considered forlorn

Opinions from people I have shown this to so far are extremely divided on whether this is a good/pleasing/horrifying/attractive thing to do with a tree stump

The dragon was curled up on its hoard. A knight approached, unarmed and unhelmed. "Greetings! I have a question about your hoard." "If you try to steal it I will kill you." "May I move it? With you still on it?" The tiny dragon firmly gripped the golden tiara it laid on. "Carry it with pride."

Almost by chance I discovered that it is National Heritage Week the same week that I had booked off with no plans. This was not a propitious beginning to my first outing (but things got better)

Shane though it is that there are so few visitors, it's rather nice to sit here peacefully and watch the light change. (More detailed explanations may be forthcoming later)

I did not come to a thirteenth century manor for this kind of personal attack