The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

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Good luck Cardiff, he’s all yours now.

Love a bit of trolley porn.

When you’ve eaten your sandwiches at 11am and now are full of regret……

Shout out to all the parents of yr13 going through A levels and being manipulated to buy takeaways as a treat as will definitely help with revision.

A mixture of a horrid virus (day five now, five!) and warm weather has made me very hot, sweaty and miserable. All work produced today comes with a free light sheen of sweat and misery.

Thanks for clearing that up Google.

Ever wondered what the well known British phrase “eating custard in the library” means?

“Eating custard in the library" is an expression meaning to be a "sweet and agreeable person", or someone who is easy to get along with. “

Manky Easter egg

Disappointing start to the day. #mankyeasteregg

Never under estimate the power of a book scanner.

Lunchtime walk around the Botanical Gardens.

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Only used it for a couple of hours so can’t give a really informed review yet.

I’ve had it on quite a slow plod all morning so accidentally hitting running speed was a shock.

It’s fine. I quite often walk on a treadmill in the gym watching films so maybe have already got my sea legs. However, I just confused the go faster and go slower button and shot off the end of it.

Photo of standing desk and walking pad. Lots of messy wires. Also bowl on porridge in view.

First morning on the walking pad. Teen thinks it is the most stupid idea ever.

Walked the long way home tonight to enjoy Bath in the golden light.

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform:

"Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

Mystery plant that looks like a dandelion but I don’t think it is a dandelion

Is this something I should pull up or something I carefully planted last year? Looks dandelion-ish but isn’t. Phone app says Nipplewort (snigger) but I don’t think so.

Pleased to see that BBC has gone for a numerical then alphabetical order. My brain is much soothed.

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Pretty certain it isn’t by Dewey decimal codes.

As a librarian I’m intrigued to know what organisational system was used on this list. Not alphabetical, not arranged by size of tariff. Ordered by value of imports to the USA? Names pulled out of a hat?

10/10 for the weather.

Scoring is in for 2025 Mothers’s Day.

Cards: 7/10 one posted and one scribbled note on scrap of paper left on kitchen table.

Gifts: 5/10. full marks to youngest but 0 for eldest.

Breakfast in bed: 0

Lunch out: 0

Overall score 3/10. Higher than previous years.

Not sure how to get started with Bluesky? Check out The Researcher's Guide to Bluesky by Ned Potter from the University of York. Lots of fantastic tips and good advice here.

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These are our nightly visitors. They cross our garden every night. That is the hole they chewed in the fence when next door blocked up the one under the fence. Don’t mess with badgers.

This is awesome. I love this neighborhood.

These are our nightly visitors. They cross our garden every night. That is the hole they chewed in the fence when next door blocked up the one under the fence. Don’t mess with badgers.

GW4 Open Research Week #GW4OR25 logo. University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and University of Exeter logos on blue background with green arrow design.

Next week is Open Research week for GW4 Universities. Check out the amazing programme

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