So, it turned out when I copied everything into a new folder to restructure the monograph, I missed a chapter. Realised a couple of weeks ago and had to restructure it again to fit in the missing material. Anyway, done now, and hopefully better for it.

Dr Philip Boyes@philipjboyes.bsky.social · last mo.

Good grief, I think I might have finished a full first draft of my monograph! Not a good draft, obviously, but one that starts, has a middle and continues to some sort of end.

Uh-oh, looks like Shatner's getting ideas.

Pinterest, I don't even know what that means. You don't have to email me it several times a day.

I've got a second-hand combine harvester That'll do for me I've got a second-hand combine harvester I'm not made of money The thresher's kind of bloody The bales are full of teeth But I don't ask too many questions And I don't look underneath

The baby was quite hyper at bedtime so we finally set up the ceiling projector she got for her birthday to shine some colour-shifting nebula patterns and try to calm her down. Long story short, I think as far as she's concerned she just had the most profoundly transcendent experience of her life.

I do love how the text on Lumibricks adverts never matches the pictures.

Dr Philip Boyes@philipjboyes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bandits want more mod cons these days than they used to.

This was just advertised on my Facebook. 'Victorian car'?! That is blatantly Bessie the sprightly yellow Edwardian roadster.

I was surprised that the Merrie Olde Englande episode was nowhere near as cringey as I'd have expected based on the series' previous brushes with Britishness and English accents.

Caught up on 2 more Man From UNCLE episodes yesterday. Of course I've spotted repeated location/backlot set use throughout the series but there is something very charming about the exact same set, shot from the same angle, being used for England and the French Riviera in successive episodes.

Caught up on 2 more Man From UNCLE episodes yesterday. Of course I've spotted repeated location/backlot set use throughout the series but there is something very charming about the exact same set, shot from the same angle, being used for England and the French Riviera in successive episodes.

It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch

Another weekend, another baby birthday party. This one was a picnic under a cedar of Lebanon in an Iron Age hillfort. A very civilised afternoon.

Way past time.

Our baby's taken to only napping about half an hour at nursery and has been coming home absolutely wrecked. She was asleep at home at 3.30 today. I woke her up at 5 for some food and a much needed bath and she did not cope. This isn't sustainable. Worried I'm going to have to keep her home tomorrow.

Delighted that the Script Keepers Network has been honoured in the Future Icons of Culture Knowledge Exchange Awards by NCACE, in the Emerging Academic–Cultural Collaboration Award category. A collaboration with @timbrookes.bsky.social !

And Tom Chadbon gone, one of the best things about one of the best Doctor Who stories. "That's a spaceship!" Interviewed him way back when and was lucky enough to have him in one of my audios playing a dotty time scientist. Lovely fella and did good work.

Just realised who these Muppets remind me of. #CatharsisOfSpuriousMorality

Just misread this as 'secret duvet project'. Not that I'm sleep-deprived or anything.

Was eggy spaghetti a thing for anyone else, or is that just something my mum dreamed up when she had no food in or couldn't be arsed?

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Clickbait ad shows what Space Commander Travis is up to these days.

Had a dream that Shigeru Miyamoto press-ganged me into his miniatures wargaming group and let me tell you: beneath that affable exterior he takes it super seriously.

Took the baby to her first friend's birthday party yesterday. She's got another one next weekend. And so it begins.

A good name for a bus stop, and also a fun party game for bishops.

*because Israel keeps bombing it and also they said they want to occupy the rubble and eventually annex it

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2w ago

UNESCO places ancient Lebanese city of Tyre on heritage danger list share.google/9d5b7btV0aj2...

Ooh, this is nice, but £160 for it is crazy. Just like the X-Files set they announced the other day, no way I can justify it. Lego prices are getting out of hand.

Genuine question: when was the last time this country had a Home Secretary who wasn't an absolute shit? Because I'm over 40 and I can't remember one.

Can I have a quid every time a politician says 'privilege of my life' today? Thanks.

Yeah, if you can't fit 'fashion' on your sign, maybe don't try to abbreviate it.