Peter Jones
@peterjones37.bsky.social
A (painfully niche) interest in rugby, history, literature.
“He Did His Bit” The Stories behind the Shirt Collection of Welsh Rugby Legend Charlie Pritchard (Gomer, 2020)
“He Did His Bit” The Stories behind the Shirt Collection of Welsh Rugby Legend Charlie Pritchard (Gomer, 2020)
@psbhq.bsky.social Great night! Merci! #paris
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
@psbhq.bsky.social Great night! Merci! #paris
@psbhq.bsky.social Looking forward to the gig tonight in #Paris - long way from Every Valley in #Caerphilly
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@psbhq.bsky.social Looking forward to the gig tonight in #Paris - long way from Every Valley in #Caerphilly
On this day in 1819, #poet John Keats went for a walk in the water meadows outside Winchester #hampshire #visitengland #poetry #romantics
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
September 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
On this day in 1819, #poet John Keats went for a walk in the water meadows outside Winchester #hampshire #visitengland #poetry #romantics
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
July 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Killed on this day on the Western Front in 1917, @englandrugby.bsky.social star John Raphael. His distraught mother asked for her ashes to be buried in his grave @cwgc.bsky.social Lijjsenthoek. #ww1 #rugbyhistory
June 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Killed on this day on the Western Front in 1917, @englandrugby.bsky.social star John Raphael. His distraught mother asked for her ashes to be buried in his grave @cwgc.bsky.social Lijjsenthoek. #ww1 #rugbyhistory
June 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The Candover winding its way through the water meadows today #hampshire #nature #landscape #photography #hampshirelife #chalkstream #ecology
May 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Candover winding its way through the water meadows today #hampshire #nature #landscape #photography #hampshirelife #chalkstream #ecology
Reading this atm - can’t imagine why story of a populist politician should have attracted me, but hey ho…” #reading #americanlit #literature #fiction
“…soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.”
“…soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.”
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reading this atm - can’t imagine why story of a populist politician should have attracted me, but hey ho…” #reading #americanlit #literature #fiction
“…soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.”
“…soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.”
Born #onthisday 1907, #poet WH Auden. #literature #writing
“Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.”
“Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.”
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Born #onthisday 1907, #poet WH Auden. #literature #writing
“Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.”
“Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.”
Born #onthisday, #ww2 hero and one of the great #travel writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor
“I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke I couldn’t think where I was…”
“I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke I couldn’t think where I was…”
February 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Born #onthisday, #ww2 hero and one of the great #travel writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor
“I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke I couldn’t think where I was…”
“I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke I couldn’t think where I was…”
Spring on the way #nature #photography
February 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Spring on the way #nature #photography
Tennyson at Lincoln cathedral
“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
#poetry #literature #photography
“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
#poetry #literature #photography
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Tennyson at Lincoln cathedral
“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
#poetry #literature #photography
“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
#poetry #literature #photography
January 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty at #Winchester - set up nearly 900yrs ago. #norman #history #churcharchitecture #photography
January 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty at #Winchester - set up nearly 900yrs ago. #norman #history #churcharchitecture #photography
The path into the trees at Winnall Moor, #Winchester - before the rain… #photography #winter #nature
January 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The path into the trees at Winnall Moor, #Winchester - before the rain… #photography #winter #nature
Happy birthday Matthew Arnold. Born #onthisday 1822 - #writer #poet and Inspector of Schools
#literature #Victorianliterature
“…we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
#literature #Victorianliterature
“…we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
December 24, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Happy birthday Matthew Arnold. Born #onthisday 1822 - #writer #poet and Inspector of Schools
#literature #Victorianliterature
“…we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
#literature #Victorianliterature
“…we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
“…the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, died #onthisday 1880 #writing #literature
December 22, 2024 at 7:06 PM
“…the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, died #onthisday 1880 #writing #literature
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Died #onthisday 1940, F Scott Fitzgerald #writer #literature #books
December 21, 2024 at 12:28 PM
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Died #onthisday 1940, F Scott Fitzgerald #writer #literature #books
December 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Died #onthisday - “Hop” Maddock, who played for London Welsh RFC and @welshrugbyunion.bsky.social
before #ww1. Won an MC for his actions in 1918 but eventually succumbed to his wounds in 1921. #rugby #sportshistory
before #ww1. Won an MC for his actions in 1918 but eventually succumbed to his wounds in 1921. #rugby #sportshistory
December 15, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Died #onthisday - “Hop” Maddock, who played for London Welsh RFC and @welshrugbyunion.bsky.social
before #ww1. Won an MC for his actions in 1918 but eventually succumbed to his wounds in 1921. #rugby #sportshistory
before #ww1. Won an MC for his actions in 1918 but eventually succumbed to his wounds in 1921. #rugby #sportshistory
Waller and Fitzpatrick now lie side by side at the small @cwgc.bsky.social cemetery at Beugny, on the road from Bapaume to Cambrai. After the war, Fitzpatrick’s father was instrumental in countries adopting the two minute silence as part of the act of Remembrance. #lestweforget
December 14, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Waller and Fitzpatrick now lie side by side at the small @cwgc.bsky.social cemetery at Beugny, on the road from Bapaume to Cambrai. After the war, Fitzpatrick’s father was instrumental in countries adopting the two minute silence as part of the act of Remembrance. #lestweforget
Phil Waller played for @welshrugbyunion and @newportrfc.bsky.social. He stayed in SA after a Lions tour and volunteered to return to Europe to fight in #ww1. Killed by a random shell strike alongside his commanding officer, Major Percy Nugent FitzPatrick. 1/2
December 14, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Phil Waller played for @welshrugbyunion and @newportrfc.bsky.social. He stayed in SA after a Lions tour and volunteered to return to Europe to fight in #ww1. Killed by a random shell strike alongside his commanding officer, Major Percy Nugent FitzPatrick. 1/2
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Some respite from the rain - beautiful day to be coaching #rugby at #Romsey #schools #grassrootsrugby #growthegame #RomseyRFC #hampshirerugby
November 28, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Some respite from the rain - beautiful day to be coaching #rugby at #Romsey #schools #grassrootsrugby #growthegame #RomseyRFC #hampshirerugby