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English teacher in Czechia, with recent interlude of Air pollution modelling in Czechia. Before that UKMO. Taking the leap hasn't always worked for me
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✨Caught like a fly in amber Perhaps one of the most enigmatic gables in the country: St. John's Court in Malmesbury is a C17th almshouse which incorporates a beautiful C12th doorway from a former chapel on the site. #ThrowbackThursday

The wonderful Jack Russell has done our ground at Teign Valley proud. Fabulous prints of the match he painted last year have arrived today. 🙏🙏🙏🏏❤️

🌡️ ☀️ The UK has recorded its warmest and sunniest spring on record, according to provisional Met Office statistics. Spring 2025 is now the 4th sunniest season overall for the UK, with only 3 summers sunnier since 1910. Full details here: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

I’ll go with this to brighten a Monday today. #ASongADay m.youtube.com/watch?v=_bna...

The Attic Window (c1934) by Jack Noel Kilgour. Oil on plywood.

The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, #Scotland, built c.2500 BC This ditch alone took at least 80,00 hours to dig, straight into the bedrock! At 380m in circumference, that's a serious community effort! #StandingStoneSunday 📸 Mine #archaeology #ancientbritain #photooftheday🏺

Sunday #stunday hope you all have a lovely day.

Just me out measuring my favourite stone (Carreg y Planwydd Helyg in Meirionnydd) a few days ago (before the rain) for #StandingStoneSunday

My film does have a beginning, a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order.

Rooooot!

Ancient of Days #Dartmoor

That's so interesting.

Townscape, by Yorkshire artist Claire Shotter. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

1776: Grass grows.

Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.

I think about this every day

The Towering Smokestacks of the Otis Steel Co., Cleveland, 1927-28, Margaret Bourke-White Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! - Allen Ginsberg, HOWL

Why is it spelled "camouflage" and not

Jawad Daheur and Iva Lučić (eds.): Habsburg Natures. Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918. New York: Berghahn 2025. ISBN 978-1-83695-227-5 (available for preorder). URL: www.berghahnbooks.co...

Vikings Visited Rest Stops to Avoid Danger on Their Voyages Across the Seas #Science #Culture #Vikings #NavalHistory #Exploration

Edmund I, king of the English, was killed at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, #OTD in 946. He had joined brother and predecessor Æthelstan at Brunanburh in 937, won control of the Five Boroughs (Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford) in 942, and of Northumbria in 944. #medievalsky

just got the Digital Doonesbury at like $20, so ... an occasional annotations thread where I either explain stuff or ask for help understanding stuff. this is the first one that I think is incomprehensible without period knowledge! "greetings" is how draft notices began

Here is a pretty view

Kilauea is going absolutely crazy right now with episode 23 of the eruption. USGS live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

sport failing to lift glooms Blades trip at last hurdle 😭 Yorkshire Cricket Club being tortured by Notts choosing to bat long in their second innings 😬

A wonderfully British sentence: ‘The first SWR service under public ownership was a rail replacement bus’. South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour www.bbc.com/news/article...