Vicky Carroll
@vicky-carroll.bsky.social
Bikes, old stuff, spooky stuff, propulsive music. I do things with words for a living.
This was a most excellent book to be snowed in with in the Highlands over the tail-end of Yuletide. A gift from @laurakaykelly.bsky.social at Christmas 2025. Maybe this is my new tradition: re-read it every year in the dark days, to remind myself the storms pass and frozen days melt away eventually.
Wishing you a wonderful #wintersolstice A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time. #StandingStoneSunday #Art #ArtArchaeology #Archaeology #prehistory
Trip to the giant Roman soldier Silvanus' iron head at Croy back in March with @davidtdunlop.bsky.social and @laurakaykelly.bsky.social Laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. A good day. #metal people are the best 🤘
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation. 'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere' theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...
Blood incantation
The most (in)famous example of heavy metal and prehistory harmonising is surely the undersized Stone’enge that is slowly lowered into the midst of guitars and spandex in the 1984 mock-rock-do…
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...Eddy Mercx furiously pedalling round the corner just behind them...
𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨@agnes-guano.bsky.social · 9mo agoSeaside Special, 1979 - Rod Hull and Emu riding a bicycle on the pier at Blankenberge, Belgium
Not planning to overload this account with pictures of bikes (there's plenty of that elsewhere) but I like how the brittle winter trees came out against the sky in this pic during a frosty quick trip to the shop before dark this evening #trees #wintersky #eveningsky #cycling
Spooksome Old Town cemetery on a windy rock on a blustery day, with Stirling Castle looking a bit huffy up there behind it.
A blue sky, a blue sea and my beautiful bike for my first post on BlueSky. No idea what I'm doing or how anything works on here, but life's all trial and error, eh...
