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Chilternbirder
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Hanging on to my old social media name although the birding these days is largely very low carbon through my living room window. Anarcho-dandyist folkie into environment and architecture among other things. Vestitus bene vincit omnia 🧑‍💻 www.folkphotos.uk
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If you've ever wanted to learn about the work of an apothecary, Amersham Museum are hosting this brilliant talk for Buckinghamshire History Festival! Led by a medical historian, tour their garden and discover how plants heal.

To book your tickets and for more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk
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NATIONAL REPTILE AWARENESS DAY!

In the UK we have six native species - common lizard, sand lizard, slow-worm, grass snake, smooth snake and adder- plus several non-native ones.

If you want to know more about how we support these species get in touch with us: [email protected]
I have one somewhere which hasn't been used for at least 10 years.
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UTERE FELIX DOMINA IULIANE (‘Use [this and be] happy, Lady Juliane’) - inscription on bracelet from the Hoxne hoard. #EpigraphyTuesday

www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

For more about this hoard and its finding see archaeology.co.uk/articles/new...

#ClassicsBluesky #Archaeology 🏺
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Another delightful image from the 14th Century Book of Hours, the Luttrell Psalter.
A lady prepares her hair for the day with comb, mirror and casket, with the help of her maid servant.
It has to be said that she does not look overjoyed at her reflection in the mirror.
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As #worldseries is trending, here's my only #baseball #cartoon Editors in the USA didn't get the #hitter's #cricket stance & over here they didn't seem to give a toss about baseball. 😂 Unsurprisingly, it remains unpublished. Ironically, most #cricketers now adopt the baseball stance when #batting 🤷‍♂️
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Nationwide covered the three-day week, the drought, the Silver Jubilee and so on through the decade. It also covered the rise of both consumerism and environmentalism.

And it had a fondness for supernatural stories like this one, which also gives you a picture of Sheffield people in 1970.
Nationwide from 1970: A haunted Sheffield nightclub
If you want a portrait of Britain in the Seventies, you can't beat Nationwide . This was a news magazine programme shown every weekday eveni...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
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Once again Trump proves a loyal friend to Vladimir Putin and stabs Zalensky and the Ukrainian people in the back.
Trump urged him to concede a significant amount of territory to Russia or face destruction, a meeting that devolved into a “shouting match” with Trump “cursing all the time,” according to insiders who spoke with the Financial Times in its report Sunday.
www.rawstory.com/trump-267421...
Trump pushed Zelenskyy in vulgar 'shouting match' to cede land or be 'destroyed': report
In a private meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, President Donald Trump urged him to concede a significant amount of territory to Russia or face destruction, a meeting that...
www.rawstory.com
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It seems to be time to post this again:
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#fabulamurina (mouse story) 466
Silvius hortulanus glandes, in silvas carptas, in ollas deponit (Silvius the gardener is planting acorns in pots).
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⚠️ As the House of Lords debates the Government’s damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill, we are highlighting some of the amendments needed to mitigate the worst impacts of the bill. (1/5)
One thing that I have noticed since my last cat passed away. I am no longer responsible for the weather.
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📜 A national project led by University of Exeter is reviving Henry VIII’s Valor Ecclesiasticus — a Tudor-era survey of England’s churches, land & people. Digitised & mapped for the first time, it’s a fresh look at 16th-century life. https://ow.ly/jeN050Xarsh
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Driver shortages are a persistent barrier to our industry. We are calling on the govt to:

⚠️ Lift the 50km regular service limit for 18/19 yr-olds
✅ Allow training before a provisional licence is issued

Read more here:
tinyurl.com/snfbbyb4
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Makes you realise how much relies on a very few number of service providers...

...and, perhaps more frighteningly, how many are based in the USA...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage - live updates - BBC News
Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage - live updates
Dozens of the world's biggest sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are having issues - Amazon Web Services says it's now
www.bbc.co.uk
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Our brand new @ihr.bsky.social Discovery Courses are designed to be accessible and engaging for all: historians and other professionals looking for training, as well as individuals looking for new learning experiences, enrichment and inspiration. Book now! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #history
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For #MKMonday this week we thought we'd share this classic Milton Keynes photo! Here's the artist Liz Leyh posing with her iconic concrete cows back in 1978.