I've definitely read some, because this is also entirely my jam! I'll have a hunt round and see if I can remember any that weren't horrendous.

oh it IS the one i read half a chapter of! I bow to your fortitude in finishing.

OH I think I've read the first half chapter of this

I did an Ancient Metalworking day there last year, smelted my own bronze using Bronze Age techniques and tools and made a pendant - I have a very healthy respect for how hard it will be even without doing it in period style!

I've got my eye on a workshop at @butserancientfarm.co.uk to make a torc - I doubt I'd be able to do one this beautiful though!

I’m in love.

I think if you don't laugh at it, you're tired of life.

Wire sculpture of black hairy horse

Wire sculpture of black hairy horse

Black hairy horse, the sculpture's model

Wire sculpture of black hairy horse

The camera really struggles to focus when they are THIS sparkly

Baby rabbit between a fallen branch and a treetrunk

Seasonally appropriate little friend in the fields today

The latest update on the Iranian women’s soccer team after they were threatened on Iranian state television:

-7 had accepted humanitarian visas
-5 of those 7 changed their minds and have re-joined the team in Malaysia

This is thought to be because the regime threatened their families in Iran.

Zack in Cardiff this weekend asked about Kemi Badenoch by The Mirror

I'm going to be singing that all day now

Just a beluga whale casually returning a rugby ball in the middle of the Arctic—like it's no big deal.

I am definitely choosing to believe it

Oh! That is very interesting and does at least partly explain it... I kind of love that they've just never done anything about it (but it did not help with my cake ambitions)

Weirdly, a while ago I was searching for chestnut flour because I wanted to make a chestnut cake, and also got pages of M&S bras.
Have since moved to duckduckgo instead of google.

HURRAH I hope she carries on in the right direction

Wire sculptures of two horses, a chestnut Welsh cob and an iron grey hairy cob

Wire sculptures of two horses, a chestnut Welsh cob and an iron grey hairy cob

Wire sculptures of two horses, a chestnut Welsh cob and an iron grey hairy cob

Oscar and Steele will be off home tomorrow

Yes - split out by age I think it's noticeably different, greens doing a LOT better with voters under 65. Of course that doesn't help the very immediate future, but it's something.

Preordered!

Marcus Aurelius's horse, in the Capitoline Museum

Colosseum of Rome, at night

Statue of Emperor Trajan looking remarkably like Vladimir Putin

This week in Rome I learned that the Romans celebrated Septimius Severus instead of Christmas, the Vestal virgins were daughters of the Vesta family, and Nero definitely set that fire.
One of our tour guides was no doubt an excellent archaeologist, but I think her general history was a bit ropey.

I'm 48 and also always voted Labour - joined the Greens a couple of weeks ago!

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Helios sculpture of the sun in Winchester Cathedral

Antony Gormley sculpture in the crypt at Winchester Cathedral

Medieval panel of a horse's head

Bollard painted with Manet's Waterlilies

Nice arty day out in Winchester. Helios, Cathedral, street art

Wire sculpture of black hairy cob

Wire sculpture of black hairy cob

Wire sculpture of black hairy cob

First sculpture of 2026 in the bag! It's taken a while with terrible light and I've been both ill and frazzled at work, but nice to have one done

I've never joined a political party before but I joined the greens last week

I joined the Green party last week

Oh man that looks amazing

I was thinking it looks like they just stuck googly eyes on!

Small pink and purple wire dragon