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Gareth Thomas

@profgaretht.bsky.social

Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚

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Gareth Thomas@profgaretht.bsky.social · yesterday

My neighbour has just felled the 40+ year old, massively overgrown Leylandii hedge surrounding one of his properties. The piles of timber are huge - almost twice my height. They are to be torched once the risk of wildfire abates. What an obscene waste!

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sianushka.bsky.social@sianushka.bsky.social · yesterday

The fact that various people are saying Liddle was nice in private speaks to a columnist disease - people having nasty and ugly views once a week for money, with little care for the social consequences. But enjoy that £1 a word!

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles. Each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: A central band delineated with white lines contains white 's'-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.

Gareth Thomas@profgaretht.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh, joy! The second brood of swallows have just fledged from the barn, and are swooping around the roof, chattering to each other. Hard to count, but as a group (parents, fledgelings, and presumably some of the first brood) there must be at least 10 of them. Utterly delightful 🥰

Gareth Thomas@profgaretht.bsky.social · 5d ago

Cooler today, but still no rain in this parched, fire-ravaged corner of NE Suffolk. Autumn has come early - many of the 100+ trees we’ve planted over recent years are already losing their leaves. I wonder how many will survive into next year? And the farm pond that the deer drink from is almost dry.

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