Liz Anderson
@lizanderson.bsky.social
Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Office for the day. One of the best views #Mudlark #RiverThames
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Office for the day. One of the best views #Mudlark #RiverThames
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This is excellent. But most excellent of all is the part where Patten talks about "Mr Farage" and rhymes his name with 'manage'.
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is excellent. But most excellent of all is the part where Patten talks about "Mr Farage" and rhymes his name with 'manage'.
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Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.
Those queueing up wanting to take a mallet to the BBC this morning might like to pause and think ‘be careful what you wish for.’ It’s not perfect, of course not, mistakes have been made but it’s still a jewel in the crown. TV, wide range of radio output and a huge bank of programmes on iPlayer.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Those queueing up wanting to take a mallet to the BBC this morning might like to pause and think ‘be careful what you wish for.’ It’s not perfect, of course not, mistakes have been made but it’s still a jewel in the crown. TV, wide range of radio output and a huge bank of programmes on iPlayer.
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Olli and Taylor have a gig this Thursday as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Lunchtime. Free. Do come! efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/gsmd-...
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Olli and Taylor have a gig this Thursday as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Lunchtime. Free. Do come! efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/gsmd-...
Sherd from a porcelain saucer found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday. Tree root giving off heavy Edvard Munch ‘The Scream’ vibes 😱 #mudlark
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Sherd from a porcelain saucer found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday. Tree root giving off heavy Edvard Munch ‘The Scream’ vibes 😱 #mudlark
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Leo Villareal: Coding Light is an expansive monograph of work by Illuminated River's acclaimed artist Leo Villareal, which is published today.
https://www.phaidon.com/products/leo-villareal-coding-light
https://www.phaidon.com/products/leo-villareal-coding-light
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Leo Villareal: Coding Light is an expansive monograph of work by Illuminated River's acclaimed artist Leo Villareal, which is published today.
https://www.phaidon.com/products/leo-villareal-coding-light
https://www.phaidon.com/products/leo-villareal-coding-light
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Bonfire Night can be very unnerving for both our pets (and folk suffering with PTSD/CPTSD). Classic FM will be helping us out with their annual ‘Pet Classics.’ Soothing music to help ease their minds away from all the scary stuff.
Tune in from 5pm to 9pm.
www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...
Tune in from 5pm to 9pm.
www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...
Classic FM’s Pet Classics returns for its eighth year to calm pets during fireworks
Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins will host two special programmes to help keep anxious pets and their owners calm and relaxed during fireworks season.
www.classicfm.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Bonfire Night can be very unnerving for both our pets (and folk suffering with PTSD/CPTSD). Classic FM will be helping us out with their annual ‘Pet Classics.’ Soothing music to help ease their minds away from all the scary stuff.
Tune in from 5pm to 9pm.
www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...
Tune in from 5pm to 9pm.
www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...
On 5th Nov in Britain we remember the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up Parliament & assassinate King James I. Some years ago while mudlarking I found a James I copper alloy coin weight for a half crown of the 2nd coinage (1612-1619) which might never have happened if Fawkes & Co had succeeded.
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
On 5th Nov in Britain we remember the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up Parliament & assassinate King James I. Some years ago while mudlarking I found a James I copper alloy coin weight for a half crown of the 2nd coinage (1612-1619) which might never have happened if Fawkes & Co had succeeded.
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The country that produced the novels of Georges Perec has fallen to this level
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The country that produced the novels of Georges Perec has fallen to this level
From last week’s exceptionally low tide at Twickenham Riverside during this year’s Draw-Off. The Thames is still tidal here (up to Teddington Lock) and there are days when it looks like someone has pulled the plug. On Wednesday afternoon I walked across to Eel Pie island & the boatyard. Wonderful.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
From last week’s exceptionally low tide at Twickenham Riverside during this year’s Draw-Off. The Thames is still tidal here (up to Teddington Lock) and there are days when it looks like someone has pulled the plug. On Wednesday afternoon I walked across to Eel Pie island & the boatyard. Wonderful.
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Huge thanks to everyone who has donated and shared so far. ICYMI I’m gearing up to take a series of walks in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers and to raise money for Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. You can sponsor me here: www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/cotswo...
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Huge thanks to everyone who has donated and shared so far. ICYMI I’m gearing up to take a series of walks in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers and to raise money for Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. You can sponsor me here: www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/cotswo...
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Wise words from the wonderful Roger Allam “Art and music, drama – these are the things we do best. And we don’t kill each other in our millions over it.”
‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’
He launched a thousand memes as the beleaguered Tory MP in The Thick of It, and starred in the original production of Les Misérables. Now the actor is making not-so-sweet music in the Alan Bennett-scr...
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Wise words from the wonderful Roger Allam “Art and music, drama – these are the things we do best. And we don’t kill each other in our millions over it.”
It’s Hallowe’en. So here’s an eerie late 18thC boathouse, only fully visible once a year during the annual Richmond Draw-Off, when the PLA opens Richmond Lock to carry out repairs, and causing amazing low tides. I went in and of course a pigeon immediately flew out & nearly got trapped in my hair 😱
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s Hallowe’en. So here’s an eerie late 18thC boathouse, only fully visible once a year during the annual Richmond Draw-Off, when the PLA opens Richmond Lock to carry out repairs, and causing amazing low tides. I went in and of course a pigeon immediately flew out & nearly got trapped in my hair 😱
Re the last repost & explanation, I am fascinated by these Hindu offerings in the Thames. More spotted at Twickenham Riverside during the annual Draw-Off yesterday. Mostly little terracotta offerings pots. Unless they’re plastic (not good for wildlife) I usually leave them where they are #mudlark
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Re the last repost & explanation, I am fascinated by these Hindu offerings in the Thames. More spotted at Twickenham Riverside during the annual Draw-Off yesterday. Mostly little terracotta offerings pots. Unless they’re plastic (not good for wildlife) I usually leave them where they are #mudlark
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It’s a ritual known as Ganpati (another name for Ganesha) Visarjan. The deity’s statue is symbolically immersed in water, normally by someone who’s done a fast, at the end of Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which was a few weeks back. Very common in India, never heard of anyone doing it in London.
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It’s a ritual known as Ganpati (another name for Ganesha) Visarjan. The deity’s statue is symbolically immersed in water, normally by someone who’s done a fast, at the end of Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which was a few weeks back. Very common in India, never heard of anyone doing it in London.
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I wrote a piece about London music halls for The Times ahead of an exhibition at The London Archive. @victorianlondon.bsky.social was among the contributors. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
London’s music halls back in the spotlight at new exhibition
Bawdy and sentimental, these venues are hiding in plain sight — but their initial purpose is long gone. A new exhibition tells their story
www.thetimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I wrote a piece about London music halls for The Times ahead of an exhibition at The London Archive. @victorianlondon.bsky.social was among the contributors. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Right to Roam campaigners call for access to all England’s rivers
Our local groups are organising 9 river trespasses in November to highlight how inadequate & unworkable the government’s pledge of a mere 9 river walks is:
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Our local groups are organising 9 river trespasses in November to highlight how inadequate & unworkable the government’s pledge of a mere 9 river walks is:
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Right to Roam campaigners call for access to walk along all England’s rivers
Activists will stage nine protests where they will trespass on to private land along rivers.
www.standard.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Right to Roam campaigners call for access to all England’s rivers
Our local groups are organising 9 river trespasses in November to highlight how inadequate & unworkable the government’s pledge of a mere 9 river walks is:
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Our local groups are organising 9 river trespasses in November to highlight how inadequate & unworkable the government’s pledge of a mere 9 river walks is:
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Ganesh/Ganesha, the Elephant God, found at low tide on the Thames Foreshore. Remover of obstacles, God of wisdom and new beginnings. Someone has placed this in the river as an offering, the Thames symbolically replacing the Ganges for London’s Hindu community. Made from ceramic, I left him in peace.
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Ganesh/Ganesha, the Elephant God, found at low tide on the Thames Foreshore. Remover of obstacles, God of wisdom and new beginnings. Someone has placed this in the river as an offering, the Thames symbolically replacing the Ganges for London’s Hindu community. Made from ceramic, I left him in peace.
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Crow Stone, London Stone and an Estuary Airport. History on the Thames estuary explored at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/c...
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Crow Stone, London Stone and an Estuary Airport. History on the Thames estuary explored at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/c...
The annual Richmond Draw-Off has begun when the PLA opens Richmond Lock and Weir in order to carry out vital repairs, resulting in very low tides which make it look as if someone has pulled the plug on the river. A great opportunity to mudlark (NB permit needed) & stroll underneath the old bridge.
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The annual Richmond Draw-Off has begun when the PLA opens Richmond Lock and Weir in order to carry out vital repairs, resulting in very low tides which make it look as if someone has pulled the plug on the river. A great opportunity to mudlark (NB permit needed) & stroll underneath the old bridge.
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Premiere! Begins tonight at 8pm. FRANCIS DURBRIDGE'S THE DOLL (1975) #JohnFraser #AnoushkaHempel #GeoffreyWhitehead #WilliamRussell #DerekFowlds drama #TPTVsubtitles
Francis Durbridge's The Doll Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Premiere! Begins tonight at 8pm. FRANCIS DURBRIDGE'S THE DOLL (1975) #JohnFraser #AnoushkaHempel #GeoffreyWhitehead #WilliamRussell #DerekFowlds drama #TPTVsubtitles
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Quite possibly the best painting of plum jam ever. (Felu Elias, The Service, 1936)
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Quite possibly the best painting of plum jam ever. (Felu Elias, The Service, 1936)
The Thames Foreshore isn’t just about artefacts, but a whole host of archaeology & ancient features visible at low tide. I have a *thing* about anchors; beautiful heavy things used to moor a vessel to the sea/river bed. Typically with a metal shank, a pair of curved barbed flukes at the other end 1/
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Thames Foreshore isn’t just about artefacts, but a whole host of archaeology & ancient features visible at low tide. I have a *thing* about anchors; beautiful heavy things used to moor a vessel to the sea/river bed. Typically with a metal shank, a pair of curved barbed flukes at the other end 1/
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These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldn’t afford dentures.
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldn’t afford dentures.