1,900 year-old Roman birthday invitation! 🎉 🥳 From Claudia Severa to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina, it’s one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman! Found at Vindolanda fort, it gives a glimpse of social life on Rome’s northern frontier! 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

#TheArchers how common are #glowworms in Borsetshire? I’m assuming that the introduced ones are female. Will there be potential mates flying around?

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An exceptional illustration led to some exceptional captions in last Sunday’s #GirlsOwnCC 🥇 @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social 🥈 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social 🥉 @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social 4th @ancientnmodern.bsky.social Highly commended @phlogginganorse.bsky.social and @vickinunn.bsky.social 👏👏👏

What happens if a clergyman is suspected of wrongdoing? I’m thinking of poor Mr Crawley. #TheArchers scriptwriters have already borrowed from #Dickens and #Hardy now #Trollope ?

I have finally been introduced to #ColinTheCaterpillar He wasn’t around when my children were young.

So will they take the poor wretched woman back and try again? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say

The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital as authorities tried to put her to death on 30 September

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Just visited the #BayeuxTapestry I’d read all the horror stories, but it all went very smoothly. We turned up for our time slot and there was only a short queue. I use a walker and it was all very accessible. The surrounding light was rather dim for me but the tapestry is well lit.

Some very excellent captions this week that deserve extra ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Girl’s Own advice@girlsown.bsky.social · 2w ago

Enjoy this excessive illustration for Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

The mind boggles I can remember when three year old children at playgroup had to be potty trained www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Potty-training scheme to expand to more parts of England after city's success

The government wants 75% of children to end their first year of school with a good level of development by 2028.

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Does anyone recognise this #insect about 3 cm found in South London. He can fly

Grrr. British judges don’t have #gavels

I have a phobia about looking up in high buildings. The idea of lying on floors to look at ceilings fills me with anxiety

#TheArchers Where are Amber’s parents? Aren’t they interested in their first grandchild? They haven’t even been mentioned

Nothing like scaring expectant mothers to death #TheArchers. Even if it was too late 4 an epidural or pethidine surely they still use gas and air. I can remember breathing at different levels during contractions and reciting a a rhyme at the peak. I am a failure as an old wife.

#TheArchers Just thinking about carol transferring money to Alan’s account. My bank notifies me of all transactions

Witty winners of last Sunday’s #GirlsOwnCC were: 🥇 @ancientnmodern.bsky.social 🥈 @champierth.bsky.social 🥉 @artbookreview.bsky.social 4th @grahamguest.eurosky.social Highly commended @oldbat.bsky.social @berniebanter.bsky.social

Luckily my phone screens my calls, but is anyone else getting calls with press 1 for English and 2 for Chinese? I’m getting them almost every day

About 720 Accrington Pals, from Lancashire, went into action from this position on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 235 were killed and 350 injured in just half an hour. This is their memorial. Listen to Mike Harding's moving song about them, in the link below.

Town Criers assemble !

Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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It is so lovely to see my Equinox image in today's national press. I don't earn a lot of money from it but it does all count and is also quite exciting if I am honest to see my work published. Glast day of Summer did make me laugh a bit though 😂

Please - don’t feed or encourage the ponies. I know how tempting it is to give them some ice cream or whatever…but it’s SO bad for them to be congregating around cars & eating abnormal (for them) foods www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plea not to feed Dartmoor ponies over welfare fears

People told feeding the animals in Devon is illegal and could lead to health issues.

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@mrjohncrace.bsky.social is top form #EarlSpencer #Diana www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

‘And you will be the People’s Earl’ – Charles Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, digested by John Crace

The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavish sprinkling of adverbs

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Supposing that #Argentina managed to take over the #Falklands. Would they set up #WestBank type settlements and force people out of their homes? I believe that they behaved pretty badly when they briefly took over. The regime at the time were chuckling opponents out of helicopters.

There are places in #Scotland where they don’t lock their front doors, snd I met a woman who kept her car keys in the ignition so she would lose them, but the sentimentalists also need to realise that some parts are less than idyllic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drug deaths rise sharply in Scotland as figures remain worst in Europe

The figure rose by 11% last year, bringing the total deaths in a decade to more than 11,000.

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Good grief. I’ve just placed my #Ocado #Christmas order. It’s only flippin September

If so some eason you do choose to work for free (for example, for a charity, or to support a small local enterprise), consider sending them an invoice for your usual fee, and mark it void. That way, they'll know the value of what you're giving them.

Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4w ago

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

‘I hope you’re not going through that looking glass again, Miss Liddell’ said Martha, ‘I was picking up flamingo feathers and bits of jam tarts for a week last time!’

Girl’s Own advice@girlsown.bsky.social · 4w ago

Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC