A bearded fool, holding the cutest little black lamb you ever did see.

Back tomorrow for another try. 🤞

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped today (especially Hannah who literally chopped a tonne of wood 🤩).

But not to #CuratorRob, who spent all day flirting with the locals.

An epic day experimenting with glass @butserancientfarm.co.uk A fab PhD project led by Kim Devereux-West @durham.ac.uk with @romanpalace.bsky.social Huge thanks to @chrischivers.bsky.social & co who ensured the furnace survived over winter! Some odd people showed up to help! #CuratorRob 😉

@experimentalkearns.bsky.social - do you know the answer? We asked #CuratorRob, but he's too busy watching his boxset of the Teletubbies to be of any use.

To the left, in the background, a replica roman glass furnace sprewing flames. To the right, in the foreground, an absolute pillock wearing a face visor under which he has tucked his ridiculous beard in a manner that doesn't make anyone look clever or good.

PS - We have been inundated with messages from concerned followers, concerned that with all that fire around, #CuratorRob 's beard might be harmed.

Don't worry folks. We got that covered. 👍

Exposed hair isn't something #CuratorRob needs to worry about (from the eyes up, at least).

It was knowing #CuratorRob would be there and that the furnace action would be at floor level which brought to mind the image... Can't beat a good risk assessment which covers all eventualities including exposed hair and appropriate footwear. Much looking forward to the video of the event. :)

We have read the ELEVEN PAGE risk assessment. Short trousers are banned. Which is just as well, given that #CuratorRob will be there. 🫣

#curatorrob brings joy every day! 😃

Ditto.
#CuratorRob

They do sound nice.
Do you think they would be willing to take responsibility for #CuratorRob 's bar tab?

a) see below
b) #CuratorRob

#CuratorRob will be there shortly with a miniature catapult.

So pot is "more important" than bone, slag etc.? 😮 What if the zooarch wants all the cat bones? The same would apply. Ditto CBM of a particular fabric.

Our researchers need access to hundreds of boxes at once as well as the knowledge of the paper archive that only #CuratorRob can provide.

Will #curatorrob be dying his hair red?

#CuratorRob is dusting off his CV as we type.

We do! And we have proof with this video which includes @derekpitman.bsky.social as a child and #CuratorRob wearing a jacket that he couldn't hope to squeeze into these days.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=54SY...
(CBM starts at about 6:15 mins)

We don't know why we did this, but now we wish we hadn't.
#CuratorRob

#CuratorRob used to live in Clapham South and had no idea about all of this. 🙄

I think we'll have to ask #CuratorRob!

so posh I would even go so far as to assert it would be quite shellfish of @romanpalace.bsky.social to not allow #CuratorRob to gallivant around in the lobster hat always and forever 🦞

Really have to insist on a #CuratorRob themed calendar. Just because you lot get to stare at him all day long doesn't mean the rest of us can't share in the entertainment.

The head and shoulders of a buffoon against a blue background. The buffoon has a ludicrous beard, and is wearing a tall orange hat with small black eyes on the top that resembles a prawn.

We sent #CuratorRob to a professional Networking event at the Novium Museum, Chichester, yesterday and he represented the Palace by wearing a prawn hat. 🤦

We could certainly invite him, but we'd have to give him a name badge so we don't confuse him with #CuratorRob.

This was the winner in our #CuratorRob in the Hypocaust lookalike contest.
Rumour is that he secretly entered and came twelfth, but that has never been verified.

a man without a shirt is standing in a room with a snl logo in the corner ALT: a man without a shirt is standing in a room with a snl logo in the corner

Does this mean #CuratorRob will come and do a talk at my place?

Maybe I rehash my first ever public talk which was exclusively about #curatorRob or rather #Rob as he was known in 1992

Awkward.... Well, since we've been bigging up how your talk is basically going to be about how awesome the Palace is and we reckon about 300,000 people have signed up as a result... we think you know what to do.

Oh, and about 10 mins on how handsome #CuratorRob is would go down a bomb.

If you dialled in to #CuratorRob 's online talk with @folklorelibrary.bsky.social the a couple of weeks ago, we expect a lot of the same stuff will be covered, but this time by someone who knows what she's talking about.

We thought the same. But the we thought:

a) AI has no idea what pants look like because it's not sentient.
b) This would be entirely appropriate for #CuratorRob.

We will be lobbying head office to recreate this scene IRL first thing tomorrow. 👍♥️😄

If anyone deserves to be viral today, it is #CuratorRob from @romanpalace.bsky.social for this truly awe-inspiring post.

You know what to do...