Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜
@fieryfredgater.bsky.social
I'm a bit of a geek. I have a little chap who's 13. I'm an HER Officer (desk archaeologist!). :-)
This is a completely amazing map!!
Wish we'd known about this tool from @conradgodfrey.com when we made our last episode of Map Men. Instantly visualise where place names are across Britain. Excellent stuff!
(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)
conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/
(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)
conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/
Grep Britain
conradgodfrey.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is a completely amazing map!!
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Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 15
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 15
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Day #10 is upon us.. and we must accept the jokes will get worse, and the weather colder, the days darker!
and if that's not cheery enough then here is the joke of the day!
Why was a whistle attached to the outside of Egyptian tombs?
So you could toot-and-come-in!
and if that's not cheery enough then here is the joke of the day!
Why was a whistle attached to the outside of Egyptian tombs?
So you could toot-and-come-in!
December 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Day #10 is upon us.. and we must accept the jokes will get worse, and the weather colder, the days darker!
and if that's not cheery enough then here is the joke of the day!
Why was a whistle attached to the outside of Egyptian tombs?
So you could toot-and-come-in!
and if that's not cheery enough then here is the joke of the day!
Why was a whistle attached to the outside of Egyptian tombs?
So you could toot-and-come-in!
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Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 8
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 8
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Sometimes I come across something on Google Streetview and think "Wow that really evokes Covid times, I hardly remember what it was like back then..."
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Sometimes I come across something on Google Streetview and think "Wow that really evokes Covid times, I hardly remember what it was like back then..."
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'Keza writes brilliantly about video games.' Charlie Brooker
A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario and Pokémon, Super Nintendo by @mackeza.bsky.social is out in hardback from 12 February. Pre-order your copy now 🎮
linktr.ee/super_nintendo
A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario and Pokémon, Super Nintendo by @mackeza.bsky.social is out in hardback from 12 February. Pre-order your copy now 🎮
linktr.ee/super_nintendo
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'Keza writes brilliantly about video games.' Charlie Brooker
A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario and Pokémon, Super Nintendo by @mackeza.bsky.social is out in hardback from 12 February. Pre-order your copy now 🎮
linktr.ee/super_nintendo
A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario and Pokémon, Super Nintendo by @mackeza.bsky.social is out in hardback from 12 February. Pre-order your copy now 🎮
linktr.ee/super_nintendo
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Still funny.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Still funny.
Selling a bunch of geek stuff I had around as it was just sitting in a cupboard... I don't even know where some of this stuff came from! Apparently there were two Sinclair Spectrums in there. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/fieryfred
fieryfred on eBay
Follow fieryfred on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!
www.ebay.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Selling a bunch of geek stuff I had around as it was just sitting in a cupboard... I don't even know where some of this stuff came from! Apparently there were two Sinclair Spectrums in there. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/fieryfred
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'War Scene at Queensway Tube Station, 1941' by Joseph Batò
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
'War Scene at Queensway Tube Station, 1941' by Joseph Batò
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
I can't get over the fact Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are 61 and 60 years old!! I just have to face up to the fact I also am getting old. (It does certainly feel like it.)
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I can't get over the fact Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are 61 and 60 years old!! I just have to face up to the fact I also am getting old. (It does certainly feel like it.)
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Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’
Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’
Midway through the Broadway run of Waiting for Godot with his Bill & Ted co-star Keanu, the actor-director talks about his new film, Adulthood, overcoming the abuse he endured as a young performer, and why we’re wrong about artificial intelligence
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’
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If Guy Fawkes had succeeded at the House of Lords, the nearby House of Commons and Westminster Hall would all have been destroyed, many other buildings would have been severely damaged and a lot of innocent civilians would have died.
The explosion could have looked like this;
The explosion could have looked like this;
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If Guy Fawkes had succeeded at the House of Lords, the nearby House of Commons and Westminster Hall would all have been destroyed, many other buildings would have been severely damaged and a lot of innocent civilians would have died.
The explosion could have looked like this;
The explosion could have looked like this;
I was checking records and one of the references was this website: www.wymondhamleics.free-online.co.uk/sitemap.htm I love stumbling across web pages that look like the olden days! So many aren't still online...
Wymondham Sitemap
www.wymondhamleics.free-online.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I was checking records and one of the references was this website: www.wymondhamleics.free-online.co.uk/sitemap.htm I love stumbling across web pages that look like the olden days! So many aren't still online...
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This week's #MKMonday photo is in our catalogue as 'May Day fun run in Linford Wood, 1980', but that fails to capture just how much it looks like a still from a slasher film.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This week's #MKMonday photo is in our catalogue as 'May Day fun run in Linford Wood, 1980', but that fails to capture just how much it looks like a still from a slasher film.
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Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.
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In 2021, ULAS excavated 96 trenches on land north of Quorn in Leicestershire ahead of proposed development of the site which sits on the floor of the Soar valley, Site Director Adam Clapton describes the excavations and offers some initial interpretations of the site!
www.bajr.org/pits-enclosu...
www.bajr.org/pits-enclosu...
Pits, enclosures, and barns – excavations along the Soar Valley, north of Quorn. - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
In 2021, ULAS excavated 96 trenches on land north of Quorn in Leicestershire ahead of proposed development of the site which sits on the floor of the Soar valley, immediately west of the river’s curre...
www.bajr.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In 2021, ULAS excavated 96 trenches on land north of Quorn in Leicestershire ahead of proposed development of the site which sits on the floor of the Soar valley, Site Director Adam Clapton describes the excavations and offers some initial interpretations of the site!
www.bajr.org/pits-enclosu...
www.bajr.org/pits-enclosu...
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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IT'S OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎊🎉🎈
(sound on, please)
(sound on, please)
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
IT'S OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎊🎉🎈
(sound on, please)
(sound on, please)
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'Piccadilly Circus' (from 'Looking Round London', c.1938) by Helen Carstairs
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
'Piccadilly Circus' (from 'Looking Round London', c.1938) by Helen Carstairs
Day 20: "Abstract Rat". #rattober2025
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Day 20: "Abstract Rat". #rattober2025
Garden update - leave leaves
It's got more benefits than you might expect.
4 Reasons UK Gardeners Should Leave Autumn Leaves On The Ground
It's got more benefits than you might expect.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Garden update - leave leaves
