Friday's unscheduled stop in S Cambs took me to All Saints, Little Shelford churchyard where some of the ancestors are. www.allsaintslittleshelford.org/Groups/30619...

Time for an art morning. National Gallery.

One observation: in German media, a celebration of the culture of conversation in UK academia and what flows from that.

Globe afternoon, having watched the BBC Shakespeare version.

Watched the 1982 BBC Shakespeare 'Merry Wives of Windsor' in three chunks. Life was too busy to catch these when they first came out.

Costume design from The Canterbury Prologue. Edward Burra exhibition at Tate Britain.

The British Library cyberattack continues to deliver 🙄 The 10,000s of images of pre-20C Indian paintings, manuscripts & photographs have been 404'd 🤬 If anyone happens to know the page number for the entry on Qadam Sharif in Thomas Metcalfe's Reminiscences of Imperial Dehlie I'll love you forever*

Some Tate to start the day

Enjoying Paston letters delving but am never too sure how far from shore to go. They lead to so many destinations.

"The Middle Ages was fundamentally a ‘memorial culture’, in which memory was sacred, affective and living presence".

Have designated September and October as Lucinda Williams season. These two will get multiple plays.

Flock of Sheep in a Field after the Harvest https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-pissarro/flock-of-sheep-in-a-field-after-the-harvest-1889

Is this the oldest known map of the world? 🏺 From an ancient Babylonian city in modern Iraq, it depicts the world as they perceived it during the 6th century BC, with Babylon in the centre surrounded by both known and legendary locations 1/2 📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum

I will arise and go now and... look a little off to the right.

One moment you are reading about Canada and the next the Donation of Constantine has immersed you in False Decretals.

Good visit yesterday to the Grand Opera House Belfast. www.goh.co.uk/whats-on

More butterflies outside in the grounds than at any point this year.

Wisdom

Remembering going to Louth as part of a Lincolnshire Rising trail.

Re-reading for Grace today, a game project on the trio of linked risings in England from October 1st 1536: Lincolnshire, Pilgrimage of Grace and Bigod's.

Delving into Margery Kempe again today. These maps of her travels on pilgrimage show just how extensive were her journeys. www.animatedmaps.div.ed.ac.uk/Divinity2/pi...

Tillingham, Essex. Cricket in 2015.

The Benoit fest reaches Fuzzy Logic. 2002. Many a car journey listening to this.

Just expressively excellent.

I didn't know that I knew so little about Venice. Art and culture especially. Possibly put off by a visit when 17 where the abiding memory is one of stench. Now catching up.

Unfolding impacts of AI: job losses in India. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Benoit-fest moves on to a couple of plays of American Landscape (1997). A favourite among many great albums.

The David Benoit month and a half is currently circling the first Benoit / Freeman Project album.

Friday, Noon. Time for a NAM talk. Atbara.

I'm now in Virtual Albania (might work through the alphabet) and the verification messages go away?

So if I don't scan my face with a service that might not be compliant with sensible security levels: I can't see 'adult content' here [GREAT], no DMs [NEVER USED THAT] and the under UK 18s, many of whom are soon to be allowed to vote, and hardly use this site won't be able to either, unless VPN...

Great Playtest UK session at the Sunday meetup yesterday. We played a murder mystery party game prototype and then a thematic pub crawl board game prototype. Lots of potential for both designs.

After an 11-month tour of Japan, Regatta on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy by Canaletto (c.1730–1739) is back at The Bowes Museum. This 18th-century masterpiece has returned from top museums in Shizuoka, Tokyo, Kyoto and Yamaguchi and is now on display daily, 10am–5pm.

One of the last stops of the trip was Plas Newydd NT just across the water from the mainland.

Memorable visit to Plas Mawr at Conwy (Cadw).

Great valley setting of Rosemoor. Second visit this year.

Having been to Tintern Abbey (Ireland) earlier this year, it seemed fitting to visit Tintern Abbey (Wales).

Returning to Lyrical Ballads after quite a dip a year ago. Wordsworth: Lines – left upon a seat in a Yew tree…

Hand the Bandas in at the end of the lesson, the other class will need them.

These sorts of records are great.

Best 1:1 scale 3 figure diorama of the day.

Checking what was or wasn't at a nut box overnight sat/Sun. At 4:31am, this.

Room service for Daniel and the lions BL Royal MS 17 E VII; Guyart de Moulins, Bible historiale; 1357; France; f. 107v

Word of the day: illuminé. I encountered it in an account of the interrogation of Friedrich Staps after his attempted assassination of Napoleon. Religious or political fanatic. Crank.

Claire Tomalin in the Prologue to 'Mrs. Jordan's Profession': "she was born with the knack of attracting attention".

One minute I'm reading about grain riots and another I've somehow got to the Leeds Dripping Riot of 1865. secretlibraryleeds.net/2019/09/13/t...

My undergraduate project (the 2nd year practice dissertation) involved tracking a niche aspect of an event through over a year of the The Times through these. Visually. Back in the days of punched cards and no webery.

Mining The Asian Seas online tome again. Good 1991 round-up of ideas about Portugal, China and the Indies. www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/20...

This was a joy. The Cave at the Abbey Theatre Dublin. @abbeytheatre.bsky.social

Word for today is Holm. A small island in a river or close to the mainland.