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Elizabeth Trueman

@etrooms.bsky.social

Cats, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings, Gardening & Nature. 🐈🪓🌱

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Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 19h ago

Farage has properly lost his touch. Old confident Farage would have known to play along with the Binface gag. New insecure Farage can't bring himself to do it. And that's why the headlines are about him staying away from the vote rather than the fact that he won it.

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · yesterday

Farage's by-election stunt wasted enough public money to pay for free dental care for every child in his constituency. Does he care? No. He just wanted to avoid legitimate parliamentary scrutiny of his dodgy bungs. Which he won't. It'll start again immediately. What a cock.

Dr Danny Bate@dannybate.com · yesterday

Acheter, meaning 'to buy', is a French verb that it gets from Latin acceptāre 'to take'. The Old Norman equivalent to acheter was acater, from which Middle English gained the position of an 'acater', an official who bought provisions. This lost its initial A in English, giving us the word 'cater'.

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 3d ago

The disputed research is the least interesting part of the Jason Arday story. He says he ran an Eddie Izzard-scale series of marathons. Elsewhere there are claims of epilepsy, a brain tumour, and testicular cancer. Either the unluckiest man in the world, or...

North Ages@northages.bsky.social · 4d ago

A great earthquake was felt throughout England #OTD in 1089, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Symeon of Durham. A quake depicted in the Queen Mary Apocalypse 📸British Library

A tower topples and trees are uprooted as a haloed figure looks on.
randulo@randulo.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you know an Irishman who visited France for two weeks in July and who saved my life at the Piscine du Grand Parc, get us in touch. He'll remember as much as I do. They visited all the swimming pools in Bordeaux. Please boost and see if anyone is on Bluesky who can help. #Irish #Ireland

North Ages@northages.bsky.social · 5d ago

Aug 10: Feast of Bláán (Blane) (6thC) of Cenn Garad (Kingarth) in his native Bute, pictured, and Dún Blááin (Dunblane). Missionary among the Picts. 📸DeFacto

The ruins of St Blane's Church, Kingarth.
North Ages@northages.bsky.social · 5d ago

Eanbald I, archbishop of York, died at a monastery called Æt Læte, ‘at the crossing’, #OTD in 796. Alcuin wrote: ‘He was both a father and a brother to me, and a most faithful friend.’ Eanbald II succeeded him. 📸Paul Lakin

A view across York.
Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 7d ago

A little bear figurine carved from amber some 6,000 years ago! 🐻❤️ Named ‘Słupcio’ (‘little guy from Słupsk’) through a children’s naming competition! A hole through its torso suggests it was worn or suspended from a cord, perhaps as a hunting amulet. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #Archaeology

Photo by G. Solecki/A. Piętak of a small figurine of a bear carved out of amber between 9600 and 4100 BC. The amber is a deep translucent orange. The display lighting makes the amber glow. The bear's head is carved to show ears, mouth, nostrils and eyes. A hole runs through the bear's belly, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord. Dimensions: Length 10.2 cm, Height 4.2cm It was discovered in Słupsk during peat mining in 1887. According to the museum catalogue record "Shortly after its discovery, the figure underwent conservation work to restore its original appearance as it was covered with a layer of dull patina from the exposure to the minerals contained in the peat. Already at that time, at the end of the 19th century, it was assumed the restoration had gone too far. The figure was stripped entirely of patina, the anatomical features of the animal were emphasised, the eyes and nostrils were sharply drawn, and the amber was carefully polished". In 2013, a competition was organised by the Education Department of the National Museum in Szczecin, for children to choose a name for the bear. The winning name was 'Słupcio’, an affectionate diminutive meaning ‘little guy from Słupsk’.