Wha...wait?
What happened to the slightly scratchy slightly out-of-focus 80s grey from the original cover? It was creepy yes, but this is... just... urgh

I'd swear allegiance to this army without a second's thought!

Being the owner of a dog that endlessly tries to consume things that are not conducive to canine life. All I can see in this sign is the person (right) being all "what have you got..??? Spit...SPIT IT OUT!"

Following for more sexy bagpipe debauchery facts!
(and the wonderful pottery)

Also, did you know it (Barbury) was bombed in WW2?
Someone told me a lone raider, probably trying for the rail works at Swindon, got spooked and made a run for home and dropped its stick of bombs across the hillfort!

I once visited here, and found it in fog so thick I nearly walked smack into the side of a grazing cow!
Weirdly the cow didn't seem too perturbed by this, in fact it did that hoppy skip cows do and proceeded to follow me around my walk of the foggy hillfort like an excitable 1,200lb puppy!

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

Holy heck!!!
That is the cat'est cat that ever catted! That thing is like 110% feline energy!

UK school teachers - we have bursaries of up to £100 for you to attend a Latin language summer school. DEADLINE 31 MAY.

See link for application form.

www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...

A still from an ai created sequence showing a pair of boots on the wooden deck of a period sailing vessel.

An ai created image of a pair of leather boots, featuring a nonsense combination of laces and buckled straps.

It's stuff like this that really gripes my guts.
Maybe it will only be other people like myself who spot the details in Ai generated history content, but brazenness of it, like these pair of supposedly 18th C boots left of a ships' deck, sporting the a nonsensical combination of laces and buckles.

look, I'm not saying it looks like the kind of heraldic crest an Assassins guild would proudly hang above their door, But bats and stabby daggers... c'mon!

Basil...
Every few years, I buy a packet of Basil seeds full of confidence that THIS will be the year I grow a bustling crop of verdant healthy basil, in fact so much I will be gifting pots of basil to friends all summer!
About 20% germinate, and of those I end up with a handful of sad specimens.

Cheers, I appreciate that.

Centuriation?

I used to really admire a neighbours garden a lot like yours, and they described it to me as 'painted chaos' and I've been aspiring to achieve something like that in my own garden since.
The tricky part is keeping the painted colours and preventing the whole tipping over into fully wild chaos!

If you put it on a turntable and spin it, do the horses run? :)

'Got to take the rough with the smooth.... [looks around at the endless miles of rough reaching to the horizon in every direction]

Occasionally I have to make posts like this, and EVERYTIME it makes me realise, that even though I work in an academic sector, and supply services to academia, I'm still an outsider, in two-tier set up. I hate it.

Hi.
Is there anyone with Cambridge University Press access, who could download a chapter of something for me please?
I will be in your debt.

I've always liked... "History doesn't always repeat itself, but it very often rhymes"

The 2025 FIFA peace prize, awarded to Donald Trump. The prize shows a stylised planet earth being grabbed and grasped at by hands from reaching up from below, weirdly reminiscent of the final scene in 2001 horror movie From Hell.

Somewhere in dark room, the designer of the FIFA Peace Prize takes a rasping draw on a cigarette, and spasmodically stubs it out in an ashtray already overflowing. Their eyes, red from a combination of whisky and tiredness flick back to the rolling news playing silently on a TV in the corner...

Hi Claire, Sorry to ask, but where is that archway and narrow passage to be found in Peterborough?

The visual of the profile rising up out of the water is really something!

Oh my word! As it sailed off up the river that genuinely made me do a tiny gasp!

Though given the current timeline we are on, I fully expect the Artemis team to be first humans to spot the cyborg dinosaur earth invasion launch platforms on the dark side of the moon.

While I found myself holding my breath through the initial stage. I admit the launch was an emotional watch.

I've just discovered that I maybe DON'T like watching live moonlaunches anymore...

not to be starting at all, I'm just tumbling increasingly battered looking veg scraps and cardboard clippings. Is there a magic formula to kick-start the composting process in these devices?

I bought a tumbler, used it to about capacity, tumbling every 3-4 days as suggested, and things went along fine for a while, then composting seemed to... stop?
So, with the house still generating green waste I got a 2nd one to use alongside, filling this one, and now composting seems (cont)

Gardening Question,
Compost Tumblers... Does anyone else use them? And can anyone advise me on what I may be doing wrong with mine?