My photo shows a Paleo-Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform text, still partially enclosed in its original clay envelope. The clay is pale orangey-brown in colour displayed against a grey display case background. The outer envelope has been broken open, revealing the inner tablet beneath. Both surfaces are covered with densely packed wedge-shaped characters, which record a contract for the sale of a house purchased by Mannum-balu-Samas at the price of 1/3 shekel and 15 grains of silver. This is followed by the names of the numerous witnesses including the mayor Sin-magir and the courier Apil-ilisu. The same text is repeated on the envelope in the event of a dispute, which was broken to inspect the internal document. It is dated 32nd year of Hammurabl's reign, 10th month, c. 1750 BC. The clay envelope measures 87 mm (height) × 55 mm (width), while the inner tablet measures 64 mm (height) × 43 mm (width). On display at the Museum of Antiquity in Turin. Collection number MAT 740.

A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope!

Museo di Antichità, Turin
📷 by me

#Archaeology

An illustration of a Georgian manor house in the mid- background. An ominous black cloud directly above the house. A tree lined avenue on the far right of the illustration. A central pathway leading down from the property with figures along the route including a male figure in the middle of the pathway pushing a wheelbarrow. Two female figures -adult and child- to the left of this figure looking on at the workman. A large tree to their left. Legend at the bottom of the illustration indicates this is Baskerville House, Easy Hill, Broad Street.

Dr Caroline Archer–Parre explores eighteenth-century typeface punches and how a three-year funded project by BCU and Cambridge scholars is reshaping our understanding: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t... Ref: WK/B11/1140 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social @Baskerville1707

Still marvelling at how pain free and calm I am after this morning’s gynaecology tests. My biggest take away was that gas and air is a miraculous combo! Not something I’ve had before due to not having children. And a couple of co-codamol pills before also helped. Huge thanks again to NHS Tayside.

Thank you! Really hoping to get to tomorrow’s JST talk, but I may well just sleep through! Have fun whatever.

Huge thanks to a very kind gynae and nurses at Perth Royal Infirmary who checked me today, ruling out a huge cancer concern. On downside they found something else which needs more tests. But probably not cancer. So impressed at the professionalism and care. They even offered shortbread! Thanks NHS.

A female chaffinch perched among branches and green leaves, her head raised and tail raised even higher. She has soft beige under plumage, white and black marked wings, and a dark grey tail with a green tinge on it nearer to her body.

A female blackcap perched in a tree with other branches and green leaves around. She has light under feathers, light brown wings, and a reddish brown top of head. She is facing the left with head turned slightly this way.

Two dippers perched above a river, both facing to the left, the bird in mid picture seen in full, and its probable partner at the bottom only seen partly, its head, neck and upper back visible. Both birds are dark brown colour with white necks and chests.

A dipper seen close up, perched on a branch above a river, facing to the left, its wings both raised up high, showing very fluffy under wing plumage, rarely seen by people. The bird is mostly dark brown colour, with a white neck and chest, pointed beak, and coloured leg rings.

Some bonus photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶

A buzzard circling high, seen from below. Its wings are spread wide, its body tilted diagonally against the white sky behind. The bird has white, grey and brown under plumage, and a sprayed out tail.

A blue tit perched among mossy branches and green leaves. Its body is turned towards us, bent low, with head tilted back up behind. The bird has soft green under feathers, a grey and blue back, white and black around its neck, and a white ring around its head and deep blue on top.

A willow warbler seen perched among a mass of brown branches and green leaves. The bird is turned somewhat towards us, with head turned to its right (our left as we look). It has a creamy tummy, brownish/green wings, and a marked yellow stripe above its eye.

A crow perched among reddish thin branches with white flowers and green buds. The bird’s body is turned towards us, its head turned to our right as we look. It has shiny black plumage, dinosaur like feet, and a soft matte grey pointed beak.

Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶

A female chaffinch perched among branches and green leaves, her head raised and tail raised even higher. She has soft beige under plumage, white and black marked wings, and a dark grey tail with a green tinge on it nearer to her body.

A female blackcap perched in a tree with other branches and green leaves around. She has light under feathers, light brown wings, and a reddish brown top of head. She is facing the left with head turned slightly this way.

Two dippers perched above a river, both facing to the left, the bird in mid picture seen in full, and its probable partner at the bottom only seen partly, its head, neck and upper back visible. Both birds are dark brown colour with white necks and chests.

A dipper seen close up, perched on a branch above a river, facing to the left, its wings both raised up high, showing very fluffy under wing plumage, rarely seen by people. The bird is mostly dark brown colour, with a white neck and chest, pointed beak, and coloured leg rings.

Some bonus photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶

A buzzard circling high, seen from below. Its wings are spread wide, its body tilted diagonally against the white sky behind. The bird has white, grey and brown under plumage, and a sprayed out tail.

A blue tit perched among mossy branches and green leaves. Its body is turned towards us, bent low, with head tilted back up behind. The bird has soft green under feathers, a grey and blue back, white and black around its neck, and a white ring around its head and deep blue on top.

A willow warbler seen perched among a mass of brown branches and green leaves. The bird is turned somewhat towards us, with head turned to its right (our left as we look). It has a creamy tummy, brownish/green wings, and a marked yellow stripe above its eye.

A crow perched among reddish thin branches with white flowers and green buds. The bird’s body is turned towards us, its head turned to our right as we look. It has shiny black plumage, dinosaur like feet, and a soft matte grey pointed beak.

Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶

Adam Savage Unboxes The Batmobile from Batman (1966)! YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

Adam Savage Unboxes The Batmobile from Batman (1966)! youtu.be/K2MdKAQbdRo

And for the computer science folks, my St Andrews CS PhD which I had to drop out of in 1996 due to my progressive neurological disease (still not then diagnosed properly) was about creating a system to support hypercode, a hypertext like programming system built on underlying persistence technology.

Douglas Adams Hyperland YouTube video by Disability Australia Channel

Very belatedly watching the 1990 documentary “Hyperland” about hypertext, starring Douglas Adams (who wrote it) and Tom Baker. It originally aired on the BBC just as my husband and I were starting as undergraduate students at St Andrews. youtu.be/cyAQgK7BkA8

From Disney Masters Vol. 11: The Prince of Mists Strikes Back Mickey: Goofy, I refuse to be scared of ectoplasmic nothings an' bad Gothic architecture!

Starting the day looking up siblings of my g-granny from Dublin in the newly released 1926 Irish census. Having to check some more BMD certs (fortunately mostly available online, free, for this period) to verify addresses. But finding most folks sought. nationalarchives.ie/collections/... #genealogy

Calico Sew a quilt, collect buttons, attract cats!

Hoped to have my first play of board game Calico, but had to pop out all the cardboard pieces first, and sort them into wee bags. Big challenge with neurological illness hands! Done, though I'm now very sluggish all over as a result. Hope to have a play another day! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28...

A close-up image of a jet black bird seen in silhouette diving vertically down towards the bottom of the picture with a green hill sloping down to a wide river seen out of focus in the background.

Crow diving down to the mollusc it had dropped from about 10m onto pebbles below near Stannergate carpark in Dundee. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A close-up image of a large black bird with half of a shellfish in their beak standing in profile facing right among small rocks and pebbles.

Crow picking up a mollusc it had repeatedly dropped from about 10m in the air near Stannergate carpark in Dundee. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A close-up image of a black and white duck with silver grey beak and bright yellow eye with small black pupil.

Male tufted duck, one of many, at the Swannie Ponds in Dundee this evening. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

2000 years ago!

Postal votes completed for the Scottish parliamentary election. Commentating loudly throughout ("Envelope A!" "Envelope B!"). I find the process freshly baffling every time. But was clear who I was voting for. And for the first time in many years voted differently for constituency and regional list.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time E H Shepard drawings go on display for book’s centenary, showing how he brought AA Milne’s character to life

Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

In an a farm orchard in early spring a finely coloured hen struts through the grass and daffodils

In the orchard
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(The Farm, 1958)

Yikes! Hope the rest of the trip goes smoothly. Glad the NHS patched you up well.

Black and white photograph of 6 very well dressed men with shovels and forks removing soil from a large prehistoric ditch with trees in the background

The grass and gorse covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with trees in the background

It's #HillfortsWednesday! 🥳

Here's the the inner ditch (Cutting IV) on the W side of Hembury Iron Age hillfort #Devon:

1) then - in 1930 during excavations directed by Dorothy Liddell (© Devon Archaeological Society)

2) now - the same area 91 years later (📷 July 2021)

Meanwhile my main box remains my Clinkscales 72 bass piano accordion, made by Paolo Soprani in Italy, and bought new in 1981. It had its first retune in 40 years in 2021, and is still going strong. Gorgeous rich sound, still practical for me to play when my progressive neurological illness allows.

Belatedly learning Weltmeister accordion makers in Germany (since 1852, give or take debates over firms) closed late 2024. I have a 48 bass Perle box of theirs, which is a handy smaller alternative. I have form in this: bought a Maugein CBA not long before they shut in France! But since relaunched.

Hi! May be worth asking this in intfiction.org forum which is very active. Also depends whether you're looking at choice based IF or traditional parser text adventures - I write latter. There's SpringThing.net competition running now, with IFComp in autumn. Also see IFWiki www.ifwiki.org/Main_Page

Clannad - I WIll Find You (Theme from The Last Of The Mohicans) (Live) YouTube video by ClannadOfficial

Clannad - I WIll Find You (Theme from The Last Of The Mohicans) (Live) youtu.be/G0np-5xbkus

I’m sure we can add to this list….