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Tim Holt-Wilson
@timholtwilson.bsky.social
The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
Suspended solids derived by rainfall do not help.
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Tally ho - that's him!

"Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi... Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code ... go Nazi".
January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
He She It
January 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM
His description of commuting to Edinburgh by sea from Gt Yarmouth is worth reading, while his man took his horse by land. He got entangled with his housekeeper - another source of grim entertainment.
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Sylas died aged 99 in 1840. Wrote a very interesting diary about his life in Scratters as a young bloke, trainee doctor and aspiring gent.
January 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
His fame never echoed in my halls. Tell us more.
Have you heard of Sylas Neville of Scratby?
January 27, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Ah but that's the devolved remnants of an Icenian personal name
Seguliacus.
#Gaulish
January 27, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Then they'd be emboldened to shoot you because you were attacking them as well as brandishing an 'offensive weapon'.
January 27, 2026 at 7:28 AM
See what the UK government has just published - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:23 PM
... including agricultural production, food processing, distribution and consumption. The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required.>
January 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM
<The UK is unable to be food self-sufficient at present, based on current diets and prices. Full self sufficiency
would require very substantial price increases for consumers, as well as improvements in efficiency, waste
reduction and resilience across the food system, ...
January 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Castle of towers.
January 26, 2026 at 7:58 PM
"His lips quivered into an ill-begotten smile".
January 26, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Served with little quails' eggs on a bed of puréed mushrooms - very subtle, very delicate.
January 26, 2026 at 7:49 PM
An interesting challenge. Wish I knew more about minerals. Pyromorphite?
January 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Riding a horse called Ambition.
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Ignore him, he is a zob.
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM