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Kat
@byekitty.bsky.social
work: yelling at 270 years of archives backlog

leisure: needlework, snacks, parkrun tourism, cricket despair, sweepstakes

cats: Malka the rescue kitten, Penelope-in-the-Wardrobe
good morning Fareham!
February 14, 2026 at 8:56 AM
dual nationality = clean sweep in the men’s skeleton 💪
February 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
rare occasion of what I like to call “fancy freelancing”

(am looking for more freelance work btw - not so much for matcha but more to keep me in rent and cat treats)
February 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Penny is blissfully unaware that a visitor is about to arrive (she does not approve of non-me humans)
February 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
These two additional plans were found amongst Middleton Correspondence and WHAT during the controversy … ?

archivist/historians/palaeographers?
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
if you too enjoy niche heritage crafts let’s be friends
hard to do, even harder to photograph - spent the day learning straw planting at Wycombe Museum 👒
February 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
hard to do, even harder to photograph - spent the day learning straw planting at Wycombe Museum 👒
February 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
good morning High Wycombe
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 AM
post-parkrun visit to the Russell Cotes gallery in Bournemouth. I have said basically nothing and the woman at the till asks me if I work in a museum. is there a secret heritage clue I’m not even aware of?
February 7, 2026 at 11:31 AM
good morning Bournemouth (/Boscombe)!
February 7, 2026 at 8:44 AM
left the house to go to a knitting group in a cafe/bar under the assumption it would stop cats interfering with my knitting. I was wrong. she is called Maggie
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
dinner is late
February 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
@briteeyedviolet.bsky.social advance warning that if all goes according to plan I will be at @rtwparkrun.bsky.social on 7 March celebrating my 200 tourism streak 🤩 will be bringing friends but would be lovely to meet you!
January 31, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I’ve been sick for a few days. If you want to know how badly I’m sleeping – I was awake for that entire epic match (and it was worth it)
January 30, 2026 at 9:21 AM
good morning Greenwich!
January 24, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Malka is here for your sad Januaries
January 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM
going to disown the cats because I dropped a large amount of butter on the floor and they are completely disinterested
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I don’t want to say I have a sixth sense or anything but I turned on the AFCON final as they were showing VAR replays
January 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
good morning Wickford!
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 AM
work trips to soggy Gloucestershire have one redeeming feature …
January 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
good morning Ely!
January 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Reposted by Kat
any UK archive friends interested in a small archive-adjacent project? paid and entirely remote. DM me
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
any UK archive friends interested in a small archive-adjacent project? paid and entirely remote. DM me
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
yesterday it was five years since I started working at SAL. we’ve gone from zero to … 70,298
January 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
start the year as you mean to go on - parkrun 80 miles from home
January 1, 2026 at 10:11 AM