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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 9h

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, back and very much looking forward to the game! Hopefully, we can get Ruffels over the line too :-)

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joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Jon for dropping off mine and Joanna's books, and one of your paintings. Thrilled with it and can't wait for the next edition.
Keep up the great work! 👏👏Love it.
Ps I will pass on Joanna's when I meet up with her in November. I know she will also be super delighted with them. Yeeeha !

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 1h

SPOOKY... A Halloween ish themed picture from Tenby! Dead House Steps - the entrance to the town mortuary from 1892 #Cymru #halloween

A round entrance in a stone wall with closed black doors surround by vegetation and autumn leaves

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 5h

Cordyline australis
#photography #shootGR #GRist #GRsnaps #EastCoastKin #plants

Black and white photo of a spiky plant with long, pointed leaves and clusters of small round buds in the foreground. The dramatic lighting and high contrast give the image a bold, textured appearance against a cloudy sky background.

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 3h

Away, so listened on the radio, but great result and hope this is a launch pad for better things to come :-)

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Marc Petty @marcpetty.bsky.social · 3h

That's better ☺️ It's been coming for a while, but the boys finally got the three points our performances have deserved over recent home games. Pressed the opposition well in the first half, and managed them adeptly in the second. Lloyd, Kabia and the rejuvenated Hoole were all excellent ✅

#Salop 💙🧡

Jubilant scenes greet the final whistle at the Croud Meadow as Shrewsbury Town records its first home win of the 2025/26 season (a 2-0 triumph against Cambridge Utd).

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 12h

Many thanks to @weeklyhumorist.bsky.social for publishing a #cartoon that combines #politics and #sperm 😊 #stateofthenation

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 10h

Hello Tenby... #Cymru

A mural on the side of the building showing the poet Dylan Thomas holding a pint of Guinness and recalling his vist to the pub when he was 'so drunk' that he left the manuscript for Under Milk Wood on a bar stool when he left.

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Plenty Wenlock @plentywenlock.bsky.social · 10h

Wonderful review of @genevadrive3.bsky.social's 'Inner Saga' within these pages...

Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social · 11h

RED ALERT! It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new issue of Electronic Sound, with GARY NUMAN on the cover. You can also buy the mag together with a red vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks from Numan’s seminal ‘Telekon’ album direct from us at electronicsound.co.uk/issue130garynuman

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 1d

I've received a small set of advance copies of ‘The Edge of Ruin’. Excited that I will have some copies to show at BOP Bristol this weekend.
Opening the box is so nerve racking, but I’m so happy with the job that the printers & binders have done. Exactly as myself and @wayneford.co.uk envisioned it.

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Plenty Wenlock @plentywenlock.bsky.social · 1d

A cracking review of @genevadrive3.bsky.social's 'Inner Saga' in this month's @electronicsound.bsky.social thanks to the excellent @bobfischer.bsky.social.

electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/issue...

plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/inner-...

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 1d

VALLEYS by @jonpountney1.bsky.social -This lovely photobook arrived today! A wonderful record of everyday life in South Wales by a fabulous photographer... Thanks Jon :-) #Photography #documetaryphotography #Cymru

A picture of a photobook with the title VALLEYS on the cover

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John Bloor Printmaker @johnbloorprint.bsky.social · 1d

The middle section of my Winter scene.

#winter #scene #rural #cottage #illustration #art

The middle section of my WInter scene stand up scene, showing trees, fields, a bridge and a road, a shed and a railing. The bridge goes over a river.

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly this Cecil B. de Mille scale #cartoon didn't make it...but, still, all hail the #warriorqueen on #boudiccaday! #boudicca #icenitribe #history

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

The Lee Miller show at Tate Britain is a must see exhibition. Beautifully curated and a fascinating account of her life and her photography.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/lee-miller

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Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 2d

From my September series. A long term project of photographing my children with a 5x4 camera using instant film 🖤

A black and white photograph of a girl paddling in a lake - she is looking down at the water. She is wearing a summer dress & the light shines on her hair and water.

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 2d

What you might call a difficult #witness ... Oldie #cartoon #courtcase #legal #judge #barrister

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 2d

Somerset saved my sanity. Don McCullin at 90 in pictures.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/09/somerset-saved-my-sanity-don-mccullin-at-90-in-pictures

‘Somerset saved my sanity’: Don McCullin at 90 – in pictures

Don McCullin spent decades photographing war and carnage across the globe – then he retrained his lens on the Somerset countryside. As he turns 90, a new book celebrates his gorgeous still lifes and l...

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war

Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort

www.theguardian.com

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Plenty Wenlock @plentywenlock.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing closer, going to be a great night.

Plenty Wenlock @plentywenlock.bsky.social · 7d

We're extremely proud to be launching Dr. Jack Hunter's guide to 'The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat' with the wonderful Oriel AWEN Gallery in Llanfyllin on the 18th October. It's going to be quite the party.

Meet the author and get a signed copy!

Get it in the diary.

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 1d

TBF, I think we've all had 1s/6d bill from Rickards at some point... Not sure they ever went decimal... 😂

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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 1d

Delbury diary 9/10/1908

George, George - don’t do that

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 2d

The postcards for the new book have arrived (often the 1st stage of production to be completed).
And maybe, just maybe, tomorrow I might receive a small number of advance copies that I can bring to BOP in Bristol at the weekend!

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Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social · 2d

London - Oct' 2025

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