morrismummer
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History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. And Morris dancer and Mummers player.
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Coin of iron-age King Cunobelinus depicting Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings. With one face he looks back at the past while the other peers into future. Appropriately, the month January is named after him.
Early C.1st
Happy new year!
#RomanBritain #IronAge #ReliefWednesday
Early C.1st
Happy new year!
#RomanBritain #IronAge #ReliefWednesday
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Coin of iron-age King Cunobelinus depicting Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings. With one face he looks back at the past while the other peers into future. Appropriately, the month January is named after him.
Early C.1st
Happy new year!
#RomanBritain #IronAge #ReliefWednesday
Early C.1st
Happy new year!
#RomanBritain #IronAge #ReliefWednesday
Somewhere between 30 and 35. All non fiction this year except one, the annual re-reading of Ursula le Guin's Earthsea books. (Like most years. Without Terry Pratchett it's likely to stay that way too....)
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Somewhere between 30 and 35. All non fiction this year except one, the annual re-reading of Ursula le Guin's Earthsea books. (Like most years. Without Terry Pratchett it's likely to stay that way too....)
Final photo of 2025. The chimney of the old Hancock's Brewery in the late afternoon sun. 2025 hasn't exactly been golden. Here's hoping for a better 2026 for us all.
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Final photo of 2025. The chimney of the old Hancock's Brewery in the late afternoon sun. 2025 hasn't exactly been golden. Here's hoping for a better 2026 for us all.
Feeling a bit conflicted. I've followed American football since 1984. This season in particular it's been difficult to keep my enjoyment of the game separate from what's happening under Trump. It's like they're happening in parallel universes.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Feeling a bit conflicted. I've followed American football since 1984. This season in particular it's been difficult to keep my enjoyment of the game separate from what's happening under Trump. It's like they're happening in parallel universes.
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Cont'd
All the films I've watched in 2025:
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December 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
All the films I've watched in 2025:
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Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves:
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
act.38degrees.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves:
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
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Nothing like a wiggly worm for Twixmas. Here's Ralph Hamsterley d.1518, late Rector of St Andrew, Oddington, Oxon, in all his cadaverous glory.
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Nothing like a wiggly worm for Twixmas. Here's Ralph Hamsterley d.1518, late Rector of St Andrew, Oddington, Oxon, in all his cadaverous glory.
I had a chat with Alice Cooper about golf.
And I don't even like golf.
And I don't even like golf.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I had a chat with Alice Cooper about golf.
And I don't even like golf.
And I don't even like golf.
Nobody should ever ask to borrow Rick Astley's DVD of the film 'Up'. Because if you do, he's either going to have to give you 'Up', or he's going to let you down.
December 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nobody should ever ask to borrow Rick Astley's DVD of the film 'Up'. Because if you do, he's either going to have to give you 'Up', or he's going to let you down.
Ferkeltaxi! One of my, er, more 'specialist' Christmas presents. Travelled in many a Schienenbus in the late 80s, the more obscure the destination the better.
December 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ferkeltaxi! One of my, er, more 'specialist' Christmas presents. Travelled in many a Schienenbus in the late 80s, the more obscure the destination the better.
Just to show how confused the natural world is, the first primroses are blooming in the lanes above Wivey.
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just to show how confused the natural world is, the first primroses are blooming in the lanes above Wivey.
The Christmas/Halloween/Friday the 13th mashup you never knew you needed! Happy Christmas, I think!
December 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Christmas/Halloween/Friday the 13th mashup you never knew you needed! Happy Christmas, I think!
“Today we have peace. Tomorrow you fight for your country; I fight for mine. Good luck.”
One day in 1914, soldiers left the trenches and proved that even in war, humanity endures.
The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in
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December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Today we have peace. Tomorrow you fight for your country; I fight for mine. Good luck.”
Good to see 1X01 is HST hauled. Santa clearly knows trains...
www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...
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Realtime Trains | 1X01 2345 North Pole International to North Pole International | 24/12/2025
Real-time train running information for 1X01 2345 departure from North Pole International to North Pole International on 24/12/2025. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info f...
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December 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Good to see 1X01 is HST hauled. Santa clearly knows trains...
www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...
www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.
This day 57 years ago.
Earthrise.
A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface.
That's us. That's home.
Earthrise.
A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface.
That's us. That's home.
December 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.
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O little town of Wiveliscombe
How still we see thee lie...
How still we see thee lie...
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
O little town of Wiveliscombe
How still we see thee lie...
How still we see thee lie...
Gog and Magog recreated under the walls of Plymouth Citadel for #WallsOnWednesday. The originals hill figures were obliterated when the Citadel was built.
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Gog and Magog recreated under the walls of Plymouth Citadel for #WallsOnWednesday. The originals hill figures were obliterated when the Citadel was built.
Foliate head in the choir stalls at Poitiers Cathedral. He's in-between two angels holding crowns.
#WoodenWednesday
#WoodenWednesday
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Foliate head in the choir stalls at Poitiers Cathedral. He's in-between two angels holding crowns.
#WoodenWednesday
#WoodenWednesday
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Doctor Goode in the North Curry Mummers play uses a giant £20 note to resurrect St George, but only after the Hokum Pokum Lotion and the Tintantation Pills fail to work...
In the Ilmington Christmas mummers’ play, the Doctor tries to aid the king who has fallen in battle to Capt. Thunderbolt:
In my hand I carry a pill,
In my bottle I carry a smell,
In my hand there is no disdain,
Rise up King George and fight again
#LegendaryWednesday
In my hand I carry a pill,
In my bottle I carry a smell,
In my hand there is no disdain,
Rise up King George and fight again
#LegendaryWednesday
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Doctor Goode in the North Curry Mummers play uses a giant £20 note to resurrect St George, but only after the Hokum Pokum Lotion and the Tintantation Pills fail to work...
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The Christmas Fart
Roland the Farter was a jester who (according to the "Liber Feodorum") held his land in Suffolk in return for "one jump, a whistle and one fart" at King Henry II's Christmas court every year.
Roland the Farter was a jester who (according to the "Liber Feodorum") held his land in Suffolk in return for "one jump, a whistle and one fart" at King Henry II's Christmas court every year.
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Christmas Fart
Roland the Farter was a jester who (according to the "Liber Feodorum") held his land in Suffolk in return for "one jump, a whistle and one fart" at King Henry II's Christmas court every year.
Roland the Farter was a jester who (according to the "Liber Feodorum") held his land in Suffolk in return for "one jump, a whistle and one fart" at King Henry II's Christmas court every year.
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The Earthrise image beamed from #Apollo8, 176,000 miles away, to the Mission Operations Control Room in Houston.
December 24, 1968
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December 24, 1968
contactlight.de
forallmankind.de
December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Earthrise image beamed from #Apollo8, 176,000 miles away, to the Mission Operations Control Room in Houston.
December 24, 1968
contactlight.de
forallmankind.de
December 24, 1968
contactlight.de
forallmankind.de
They came from the East and they followed a star...
(Wiveliscombe, St Andrew's, this very evening)
(Wiveliscombe, St Andrew's, this very evening)
December 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
They came from the East and they followed a star...
(Wiveliscombe, St Andrew's, this very evening)
(Wiveliscombe, St Andrew's, this very evening)