Writer & historian. 'Champagne & Shambles' & 'Born out of Wenlock'. Clients inc Hampton Court, Herefds, Heckfield Place, Hants, & Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
Joined March 2012
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I'm not very good at keeping secrets. Especially when they are this BIG.
It has been very exciting to contribute to the authentication of this #JMWTurner watercolour of @hamptoncourtcastle
Quite the start to 2024. 😃
#Turner #Watercolour #Art #Herefordshire #Arkwright
'Humanity in the lap of the Earth' (1851-2) by GF Watts.
Seen at Leighton House, Kensington.
Particularly poignant as we are warned about 'El Niño'.
#ClimateChange
Heck. I had missed these plans for the @britishlibrary Sure, the overflow of makeshift desks into the heart was a sad degradation of a great national institution. But this looks excessive, when basic services are still struggling to recover the Library as was. #confused
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#BobFlowerdew on… Waterbutt top tip! :-) Best wishes Bob bobflowerdew.com
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Huge congratulations to today's graduates from @Kings_College, @TrinCollCam, @StJohnsCam, @Peterhouse_Cam, @ClareCollege and @Pembroke1347 👏
We’re really proud of all your achievements and we wish you the very best for the future.
Welcome to our #CambridgeAlumni community! 🎓
📸 Nick Saffell
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The final Death Sentence for @BBCRadio4 Long Wave. And it does feel like a death. After tomorrow night (I've heard it ends at 01:00 BST Saturday) there'll be no guaranteed reception of BBC Radio anywhere in the British Isles.
share.google/EJZflBtoQZeL...
bbc.com/mediacentre/articles…
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I've been plugging away arranging book tour dates. I have 46 confirmed, which is pretty good as I don't have an agent. However, I keep encountering event organisers who assume they do not need to pay authors on a book tour... and I want to discuss that in a thread 1/🧵
Had that feeling of being watched 👀
Why have I not noticed this before?
Can't decide whether it's giving off Kenneth Williams or Johnny Morris doing an elephant...
#KennethWilliams #Animal Magic #WateringCan
My #dawnchorus features kettle drum hammering by this #woodpecker on the metal chimney baffles.
Indoors, amplified by the flue it's more machine-gun than melodious.
Do hope he finds a mate soon and desists.❤🤍🖤
(Apologies for the camera wobble.)
#YaffelBaffle (tho' not 💚)
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Delighted to be speaking this yr at the du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival, about my book 'Dancing with Bees'
Do please come if you can... or pass details to anyone visiting, or living in Cornwall who might be interested
Fri 8th May at 11am
Tickets 👇
foweyfestival.com/event/brig…
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The Norwich cathedral cat takes a pause while preaching the semon, in order to admire the light coming in from the window
#WindowsOnWednesday and #wallsonwednesday
Apricot-coloured flowering quince - lopped off as it ought to be the white. Suspect it was a spur from below the graft. But a very welcome addition indoors as it opens.
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Today is the feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, 'Lady Day'. In England it was once the spring quarter-day, when contracts would begin and servants took new jobs, and until 1752 it was also the start of the New Year. A day for new beginnings, new life of many kinds.
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Celebrating the birthday of William Morris, born on this day in 1834. He played a central role in the Arts and Crafts Movement, championing the value of handmade craftsmanship at a time when the Victorian era was defined by industrial progress.
ALT Portrait of William Morris, by Frederick Hollyer, 1884.
ALT 'Cray’, furnishing fabric, 1884. Get an up-close look at William Morris's prints through our ‘Order an Object’ service at V&A East Storehouse.
ALT Strawberry Thief’, designed in 1883 . Get an up-close look at William Morris's prints through our ‘Order an Object’ service at V&A East Storehouse.
ALT ‘Fruit’, first issued in 1866 . Get an up-close look at William Morris's prints through our ‘Order an Object’ service at V&A East Storehouse.
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Sorry about the wonkiness… I came across this beautiful poem about #ImogenHolst in a collection by Edward Lowbury
inspired by visits to Aldeburgh Festival. He was such a talented poet as well as a very eminent pathologist and bacteriologist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward…
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Setting up for the English Haydn Festival in Pitchford's Great Hall with Steven Devine playing the clavichord #classicalmusic #Shropshire
