Dr Robin Croft
@robinjazz.bsky.social
Semi-retired university lecturer and researcher. Amateur photographer, budding saxophonist, eco-house builder, francophone. Norfolk, England.
Amazing pictures, @fotofacade.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Amazing pictures, @fotofacade.bsky.social
Later that morning we head to Scotland on LNER Trains, which has been in public ownership since 2018. The trains run on time, and it's possible to buy tickets at very reasonable prices. eg Peterborough to Inverness, an 8 hour trip, £42. @lner.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Later that morning we head to Scotland on LNER Trains, which has been in public ownership since 2018. The trains run on time, and it's possible to buy tickets at very reasonable prices. eg Peterborough to Inverness, an 8 hour trip, £42. @lner.co.uk
Karl Parsons' work was featured on a special issue of 5 Royal Mail Christmas stamps in 1992.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Karl Parsons' work was featured on a special issue of 5 Royal Mail Christmas stamps in 1992.
www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/explore/issu...
www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/explore/issu...
The glass is the work of the great Karl Parsons (1884-1934), a prolific artist greatly inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The glass is the work of the great Karl Parsons (1884-1934), a prolific artist greatly inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.
It was. Unlike a normal baked Camenbert, this one had the juices cooked out of the squash mixed in with the cheese to make it stringier, more like Mozzarella. Next time we will add garlic and rosemary.
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It was. Unlike a normal baked Camenbert, this one had the juices cooked out of the squash mixed in with the cheese to make it stringier, more like Mozzarella. Next time we will add garlic and rosemary.
This was then baked, and made a delicous meal. A sort of organic fondue where you dip your fresh bread and then end up eating the pot!
We kept the seeds, so next year we grow our own #Pattypan squash.
We kept the seeds, so next year we grow our own #Pattypan squash.
October 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This was then baked, and made a delicous meal. A sort of organic fondue where you dip your fresh bread and then end up eating the pot!
We kept the seeds, so next year we grow our own #Pattypan squash.
We kept the seeds, so next year we grow our own #Pattypan squash.
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They Come over Here … 300 Years of Xenophobic Propaganda in England: Journal of Political Marketing: Vol 13, No 1-2 share.google/ANV2beCOGcmH...
They Come over Here … 300 Years of Xenophobic Propaganda in England: Journal of Political Marketing: Vol 13, No 1-2 share.google/ANV2beCOGcmH...
They Come over Here … 300 Years of Xenophobic Propaganda in England
England's rulers, merchants, and organized labor in the early modern period (from the 16th to the 18th centuries) were all actively using what today we would call propaganda. Each group appreciated...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Drains overwhelmed by flash flooding on Thursday.
Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate - BBC News share.google/mSOTc5m9Nnlx...
Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate - BBC News share.google/mSOTc5m9Nnlx...
Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate
It says electrical and fire safety systems in the main house at Ickworth were affected.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Drains overwhelmed by flash flooding on Thursday.
Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate - BBC News share.google/mSOTc5m9Nnlx...
Rain 'overwhelmed' drains at Suffolk's Ickworth Estate - BBC News share.google/mSOTc5m9Nnlx...
This is a very special place. A huge and beautiful graveyard stretching out across the slopes and into the forest. A railway, closed 100 years ago, wound around the mountain to Ynysybwl served 2 now defunct mines.
June 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is a very special place. A huge and beautiful graveyard stretching out across the slopes and into the forest. A railway, closed 100 years ago, wound around the mountain to Ynysybwl served 2 now defunct mines.
Very nice, @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social .
By way of reply, here are some tiles from Cromer parish church. Nothing in the guide about them, but they seem to have been installed during the 1860s.
#TilesOnTuesday
By way of reply, here are some tiles from Cromer parish church. Nothing in the guide about them, but they seem to have been installed during the 1860s.
#TilesOnTuesday
June 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Very nice, @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social .
By way of reply, here are some tiles from Cromer parish church. Nothing in the guide about them, but they seem to have been installed during the 1860s.
#TilesOnTuesday
By way of reply, here are some tiles from Cromer parish church. Nothing in the guide about them, but they seem to have been installed during the 1860s.
#TilesOnTuesday
Had to Google that one. But, yes!
May 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Had to Google that one. But, yes!
"High standards" indeed. The Black Death, like Covid-19, impacted areas of life where you might least expect it. Do you have sources for the Andalucian migrations? Sounds like a great story. @haydnblackey.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"High standards" indeed. The Black Death, like Covid-19, impacted areas of life where you might least expect it. Do you have sources for the Andalucian migrations? Sounds like a great story. @haydnblackey.bsky.social
Wow! I though that celibacy was the norm in Spain from the 12th century.
May 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wow! I though that celibacy was the norm in Spain from the 12th century.
The US Electoral College system is complicated too, but US voters do at least have the opportunity to vote for their president. We have an indirectly elected head of government and a hereditary head of state.
April 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The US Electoral College system is complicated too, but US voters do at least have the opportunity to vote for their president. We have an indirectly elected head of government and a hereditary head of state.
And Theresa May was chosen by the Conservative Party, but lost support when she went to "the country" and eventually quit only when she lost the support of the Conservatives.
April 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And Theresa May was chosen by the Conservative Party, but lost support when she went to "the country" and eventually quit only when she lost the support of the Conservatives.
Very true, but it's complicated. BJ did later get something of a popular manadate, This is also true of our present PM. But no such vote supported Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss.
April 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Very true, but it's complicated. BJ did later get something of a popular manadate, This is also true of our present PM. But no such vote supported Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss.
Correction: there are 68 million people registered to vote in the UK, but most of us have no say in who we get as Prime Minister. BJ and the lettuce lady were not chosen by "the country" but by 140,000 members of the Conservative Party.
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Correction: there are 68 million people registered to vote in the UK, but most of us have no say in who we get as Prime Minister. BJ and the lettuce lady were not chosen by "the country" but by 140,000 members of the Conservative Party.