We really like it but it’s slightly outside of our budget.

Outcome of half-term life admin catch up attempts: ‘All of our agents are currently busy. Please hold and we will answer your call as soon as possible.’
Cut to horrible music.
Beak in music: ‘Thank you for holding. We will answer your call as soon as possible’.
Back to music.
Loop ad finitum.

Suddenly feeling ancient, when your childhood entertainment is in a museum. #Nintendo #V@A

Found in the wild

Assortment of creatures

18th-century graffiti was so much classier.

My Australian friends posting on Strava like:

How the dog sleeps.

Shhh 🤫

Birdwatching with kid 1.

#bikesky #london

Good book

There is a North Northamptonshire but no South Southamptonshire. Or any Southamptonshire at all. 🧐

Just finishing reading ‘The Blazing World’ by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social. Terrific romp through 17th c England. I never knew so much about hanging, drawing and quartering. They did do a lot of that back in those days.

Icy sunset

Just me and my bun

Nothing changes on Moo Year Day.

Jimmy Carter: An Appreciation I did not pay much attention to Jimmy Carter during his presidency (I was too young at the time to care much), but I have believed for many years that he is among the greatest of the American natio…

I wrote this piece almost two years ago when it was announced that Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care. Here are some reflections on a consequential presidency for Native American policy.

michaelleroyoberg.com/current-even...

Two rabbits, one white and one grey, sitting comfortably.

Back at home after a short stay at the bunny hotel.

Picked up Andrew Hussey’s ‘The French Intifada’ (2014) and devoured it over Christmas. Couldn’t put it down. Excellent book on France and the Maghreb.

See gnarled tree carcass. Think Caspar David Friedrich.

Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester

A foggy day in Hawarden, Flintshire, home of the Grand Old Man. #Gladstone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Orange Christmas Eve skies

Another great one gone RIP Rickey.

Black and white photo snow covered ground, soldiers in steel helmets huddle in a shell crater, behind them horse drawn transport emerges through a gap in ramparts, behind which is a ruined town, on the ramparts are shell shattered trees.

20th December 1917, soldiers warm themselves in a shell crater, near a gap in the Ypres ramparts known as the Menin Gate, later the site of the Memorial to the Missing. Photo by David McLellan. IWM Q 8356 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Cover of a French book on the history of American culture featuring three men in jackets and ties (the authors)

Book cover with three men in jackets in ties (the authors)

Book cover with three men in jackets and ties (the authors)

Book cover with four women and one man (the authors) all wearing jackets

The allure of Presses universitaires de France books in the late 80s/early 90s 🗃️

December rainbow

Getting in the Christmas spirit with the boys and the bunnies 🎄

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