Pelicans looking feisty at London Zoo @zslofficial.bsky.social a few days ago #birds #photography

Moth numbers are inching upwards - 15 of 8 species last night, of which the highlight was our first ever Pine Beauty, well-named... #teammoth #Guernsey

Spotted near Old Street, is this the southern HQ of international publishing conglomerate @nightjarpress.bsky.social ? 😉

I used to do this journey quite often, about 25 years ago - but turned left at Milan and on to Bologna and beyond. Milan station is amazing, enjoy if you haven't seen it before!

Have a great journey!

A couple of pictures from our flight out of #Guernsey this morning. I rather like the multiple prop blades, at least you know it's turning 😉 #photography

One of the benefits of reshelving - I've finally worked out what the letters on @nicholasroyle.bsky.social spines mean... #booksky

Unpacking my books from 18 months in storage on my very fine new shelfstorage.co.uk shelves, and in the process confirming that there are few greater pleasures in life than alphabetising books 😁 #booksky

By coincidence I catalogued a photograph of a flint belonging to this chap just a couple of days ago... more information on the find at www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northa...

Paratextual Activity by Nicholas Royle In 1991 I attended a launch event in London for a debut novel, A Matter of Life and Sex. The book was a handsome hardback with Gilbert & George jacket illustrations, the author a...

Nicholas Royle traces copies of Oscar Moore's "A Matter of Life and Sex" through charity shops, inscriptions & old business cards – a beautiful piece on books, strangers & the stories objects carry. His new book "Finders, Keepers" is out 14 April.

Read it in House Magazine ⬇️

Making a slow start to our moths this year - 3/3 last night - but always happy when one of them is an Angle Shades #mothsmatter #Guernsey

Key to the Ordnan

Back in the archives again & admiring this wonderful key to the 6" & 1:2500 'photozincographed maps of the Ordnance Survey', published 1939, price sixpence. Just a bit of it here, including the font specified for 'Gentlemans Seats'. I don't think you'll find those on today's OS #maps 😄

Ah yes, we have all his archaeological cliff surveys from the early 1980s, a very valuable resource!

In the office doing some archive sorting today and I've just found the first ever plans I drew on site, on some crinkly permatrace... 26 August 1984! What a very long time ago... #archaeology 🏺

Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain

The first of many papers about Melsonby, I'm sure.

#Archaeology 🏺

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Thank you for going to all this trouble, much appreciated and I'm writing up the details to slip into her book.

Thank you, I'm delighted to find out more about her!

I'm sorry to have only just discovered @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social, so this is a bit late to the party, but here's one of my books previously owned by a woman - in this case Milly Symons, about whom I can find almost nothing, except another of her books for sale on ebay in the US. #bookhistory

Chocolates as a work of art from Ben Le Prevost in #Guernsey, taste very good too 😁 #photography

It's certainly a lot more noticeable than the earlier family tomb, in the Brothers' Cemetery just down the road, which has just this faint inscription at the base of one side... they were moving up in the world in death as in life!

For #TombTuesday here's a mid-nineteenth century vault in Candie Cemetery, #Guernsey, with a very strong archaeological connection: it's the resting place of Frederick Corbin Lukis (1788-1871), pioneer of #archaeology in the Channel Islands 🏺

We get these in #Guernsey too (though sadly not very often)

A beautiful day to be working on Lihou Island, #Guernsey #photography

I was trying to give it the benefit of the doubt until I got to 'desedimented ontological framings', whatever they are

Every now and then I get an email which reminds me why I'm glad not to be a proper academic any more 😉

A few more #Sark pics from the last few days, we've had a great time #photography

Made some new friends on #Sark

The sun came out, for a few minutes... Dixcart Bay #Sark looking beautiful today

Rush hour on #Sark just finished

It's holiday time. On the freight boat to #Sark 😁