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I'd never really looked at them in profile before - had to go and compare them with my walking shoes, and found that all my shoes go up slightly at the toe. The Ghost 15 definitely isn't rockered, but I can't speak for the latest version.

I'm on my third pair of Brooks Ghost - plain and comfy.

This week's fungi for #FungiFriday.

I was on the South Dorset Ridgeway the other day and had never seen so many crane flies - a cloud flew up with every step I took.

Oh my goodness. I assume this is the John James who appears in the dean of Salisbury's Act Books officiating at the dean's consistory court and visitations from 1558. Very sad background to why Thomas Glasier begins to officiate in Feb 1577.

Congratulations, Ruth.

It looks like "in o[u]r terme", but I'm not sure that makes sense.

I love autumn ❤️

Ticket price includes a drinks reception at Ditchley Park, one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 country houses, and not normally open to the public. Plus: you'll be helping the VCH Oxon project on its way to completion!
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Not sure of context, but could be badly written "yll report"??

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Osborne was still there in 1650, but I've no further evidence until Thomas Samways was appointed in Aug 1662.

Ooh, bullet holes - interesting. Vicar Edward Osborne was presented to Abbotsbury in 1640 by Sir John Strangways, whose royalist garrison there caused its attack, yet in 1646 the Parliamentarian County Committee raised Osborne's pay as "an able and orthodox divine and deligent in his callinge".

Very excited to see that a flutter of gorgeous silver-studded blue butterflies has emerged on the same little patch of Dorset heathland as last year.

Sadly, my experience is the same. I actually spend more time walking along roadsides these days, where there's less chance of being menaced by dogs, and the wildlife is more abundant because it's undisturbed.

The British Continental Podcast returns to explore the UK's shifting road racing landscape with James McKay and Lucy Gadd. Plus, Adam Howell's rise from lockdown cyclist to race winner, a season review, and a preview of the East Cleveland Classic.

thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/04/10/p...

How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .

'...for three months we were all dirt and confusion...' (Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park)
#Garden & #Landscape #historians: can you help? I'm looking for contemporary accounts of living with landscape #improvements, c. 18th century. What was it like while the work was being done?🙏 #GardenHistory

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

Don't worry, they're on their way...

#Swallow #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #birds

Looks like Tobias Hensman/Henchman to me. A man of this name was vicar of Drayton Parslow, Bucks until his death in 1643.

"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"

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The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription.

Could YOU help with a page or two?

A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200!

Find out more here - & thanks!