The Dreaded Lurgy
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The Dreaded Lurgy
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Cobblers. Sometimes found in Ecclefechan.
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Edinburgh Castle looking pretty on my home after a meeting.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"...We're in the Trent!"
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“Well, I beg your pardon … but where I come from, it’s considered a compliment to let fly with a good trumpeting after dinner.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳

From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I amused myself with this, even if no one else liked it, so here it is again.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Might be my favourite Peploe. That glass: exquisite.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Well, that ramped up quickly. #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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"Dickensian"
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Factor Fexcectorn is a track on the third Boards of Canada album, I think.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.

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November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Normally I wouldn’t post photos of tourist haunts in Edinburgh but five years ago in November 2020, when almost everything was shut and we were restricted to moving around in our own council area I went up town to take some photos of Edinburgh with no (or very few) people.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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lines on Grange prom
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The museum recalls that life onshore at Scapa, especially in the outlying posts, was so much fun that some guys were queuing up to volunteer for the Western Front for an upgrade in their circumstances
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Just met a British bodega cat.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Emma Clarke, pioneering footballer with the British Ladies FC, died 100 years ago today, 27 November 1925. She has a fascinating story, this is what I wrote about her: www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
A case of mistaken identity – Emma Clarke and the British Ladies Football Club
Emma Clarke has been hailed as 'the first black woman footballer' for her exploits with the British Ladies Football Club in 1895.    There have been feature articles about her in national media,...
www.scottishsporthistory.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hertfordshire Edible Dormice Misidentification KLAXON
Unforgiveable misidentification aside, it's interesting that non-native Edible Dormice are using below-ground infrastructure like this, which clearly has implications for allowing them to bypass barriers (like roads and open/hard surfaces) to spread.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Video shows squirrels living in Hertfordshire drain system
Other items discovered in roadside drains around Hertfordshire include a trampoline and grenade.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
'You'll only drive it underground'.
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM