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Mark Walters
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Archaeologist at Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, LiDAR, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1h
Two more to add to the ‘Lost and Found’ photographic series of things lost along the Montgomeryshire Canal towpath. We’ve seen all sorts of things over the years: usually hats & gloves, but also walking sticks, torches, hair clips, glasses, dogs name tags. Rarely coins now after contactless payment

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2h
Fog is starting to lift here now

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3h
Looking forward to a read of this 2026 debut novel by Liam Higginson. A folk horror tale set on a farm in the Eryri mountains where something from prehistory is discovered and awakened.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d
Hardly any snow here. It was actually melting at midnight. Lola likes eating it though 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d
Snow has started and the wind is building up. Might have a few cm by morning if it hasn’t already turned to rain

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d
Think I’ll give the new Luc Besson version of Dracula a watch over the weekend. I’m a big fan of his earlier films. I’m not bothered that it doesn’t follow the Bram Stoker version closely, there have been plenty of those, it’s time for something different.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d
Essential version now and my favourite translation

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d
Yes he might have 👍

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d
Ahh yes, the mix up with Purcell as Lawes didn’t write ‘funeral music’

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d
I always wondered where William Lawes fell during the battle of Rowton Heath outside Chester. Acknowledged as the most exciting & innovative composer in the reign of Charles 1st it seems he ended up in a mass battle grave east of the city. Excellent recent release of his music here amzn.eu/d/ejVmV1N

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d
Lola getting as close to the warmth of the stove as she can 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d
Never realised you are already retired. Looking forward to being more creative with photography and music and getting out for more walks 👍

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d
Looking forward to retiring in March 2027. Found that my colleague in Cadw, who started in planning archaeology with the Welsh Archaeological Trusts at the same time as me in Dec 1991, is retiring at the same time. We will have been the longest serving planning archaeologists in Wales 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d
It’s always difficult to force yourself out into the cold but well worth it on a sunny day 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d
No I have never explored Stephen Baxter’s novels. Thanks for the tip I’ll take a look at this one 👍

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d
Really enjoyed Hannah Peel’s Radio 3 series on pioneering women working with electronic instruments. I’m a big fan of Eliane Radigue’s hypnotic work on the ARP 2500 synthesiser www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d
A year & 4 months since I lost Gill. Time flies. It always seems more difficult at the start of a new year now, even more so than over Christmas, as I have a whole year ahead where I have to try and fill the time without her. You actually want time to stop expanding the growing distance between us

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d
Free ice for the sangria 🙂❄️🍹

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d
Another freezing day -5 this morning 🥶 Still lots of Lapwings heading south.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d
Out on the Vyrnwy fields with looming snow clouds and a very icy towpath along the canal. Lots of Lapwing in the fields here in bad weather conditions.

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 6d
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d
Lots of nice textures created by the frozen canal. It’s snowing here now 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d
Reading this 877 page whopper of a novel. I don’t usually read novels this long but it had great reviews and the plot sounded interesting. It’s holding my attention over the first hundred pages despite the American phrasing and references to events and locations I’m not familiar with.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d
For once the cover blurb wasn’t overhyped with this superbly fast paced sci-fi novel. Finished it in a day and I could see it being made into a film or drama.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 10d
A walk between Handsacre and Alrewas and back on the Trent & Mersey Canal, Staffordshire. Loads of early canal buildings at Fradley Junction from the 1790s and industrial buildings at Kings Bromley Wharf including a later creamery serving local farms.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 10d
A walk through the Old Beaudesert Park woodland which has been used as a deer park since 1242 by the Bishops of Lichfield and then the Marquess of Anglesey.