Brick wall of a house with a narrow horizontal stone string course traced by a wavy long stem of wisteria thick with flower.

String course.

Looking down on a shirt in progress, collar assembled and laid next to the round neck opening with pins at the ready.

I love this part—getting the straight collar piece onto the round neck opening.😬

Salute the Bay for me. Hope It’s sparkling for you. (Wipes small sentimental tear away.)

Wow!

Bagley?

A faux-lead planter with three varieties of tulip, in oxblood, lurid magenta, and orange-apricot.

That point in spring when you think, ‘Did I really choose that combination?’

A very big day today, yes. Crunch time. Just wish the nights weren't staying so cold over the next week.

A favourite April combination: apple blossom (on dwarfs trained as step-overs) floating above a froth of Forget-me-not (Myosotis).

@starcrossed2018.bsky.social ?

How exciting! What a team.

😂

View from first floor over a garden, dominated right foreground by dark pink crabapple blossom; gable end, paths, lawn and hedges beyond, under a grey sky.

Close up of dense blossom at top of a pink crabapple against fresh new leaf greens of trees beyond.

Morning.

Crabapple ‘Rudolf’ at full tilt.

How wonderful—these so significantly predate the Marprelate examples so familiar in English literature/history. Great to know.

Intrigued, but wouldn’t know how to start. Is there a link to protocols for such?

👋

Glad I'm not the only one. Even when I get in I can't open my notifications. @support.bsky.team

Funny (almost) example of digital not forever. My first book (1998) pub'd with what was then a trendy disk for its huge appendix. Until recently was available on link from CUP webpage for the book, but that now gone too. Anyone dying for the calendar of court sermons 1558-1625 get in touch.

Is anyone else getting random 'Forbidden' blocks when using Bluesky, sometimes with a follow-up about 'data limits'?

What man who wages war, asked Erasmus, does not think his cause just? Impossible not to hear the great humanist's contempt, all these centuries later.

Brilliant (and also, shudder-inducing). @manymanyplies.bsky.social

Trash alert. Make more people aware of this kind of—I almost said ‘slop’, but genAI is worse than that; it’s falsehood.

Goes without saying I hope.

We have this regularly in winter. Magic.
annajones.co.uk/recipes/miso...

@markculham.bsky.social ?

All the best, Anna. Very sorry for you and for the institution.

'Comely'. Reminds me of an estate steward in the 1550s recommending to his lord as a chaplain 'my neyghbour beyng a talle man & a very honest pryst'.

In that order: 1) good looking for your entourage, 2) religiously acceptable.

#earlymodern

Early modern status and precendency was so important: now reading a precept which instructs companies to provide 'comely' men on horseback attended by footmen, both of which are to attend the Lord Mayor and Aldermen who are themselves attending on the king. Phew.

😉 Love it.

Congratulations @mjafreeman.bsky.social ! Deeply admired by us non-scientist colleagues too. Wonderful news.

Love the attention to attractiveness as well as rank!