Have made it to @imc-leeds.bsky.social - if you're following me here, come and say hello if you see me! (Also, obligatory self-promotion: I and my excellent colleagues are speaking on Thursday if you are interested in the 19th-century reception of Old English.)

Delightful serendipitous discovery this afternoon: dictionary-themed lightbox art! (By Alexej Tchernyi, at Grimmwelt, Kassel)

Guess who got to see a real life book wheel today and is unreasonably excited about it?

Just stopping by to share the joy of tiny library with tiny books (including tiny dictionary-in-a-locket).
In Huis van het Boek, The Hague.

Moving to a new country is incredibly stressful and incredibly expensive, but I am a 40min bike ride away from this view, which helps a fair bit.

For the egg-loving mediaevalist in your life. (I have not stopped giggling at their little faces ever since I saw it this afternoon.)

No fruit stall on the market today, but I'll accept unexpected Molly dancers as a fair substitute.

Very excited for the (very expensive) present to myself that arrived this afternoon!
(I spent most of my PhD in a state of mingled anticipation and dread of its eventual publication because I really wanted to read it but was terrified of how much rewriting it would prompt.)

Pictured: normal things to be contemplating of an evening. (Photo courtesy of my mother, whose text updates about the progress of her medlars started me on this.)