morrismummer
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History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. And Morris dancer and Mummers player.
Tiled roofs in Chauvigny, Poitou, for #TileTuesday (I may have just made that up). A town of two fantastic churches, five castles, and a complete lack of available information about any of them in French let alone in English...
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Tiled roofs in Chauvigny, Poitou, for #TileTuesday (I may have just made that up). A town of two fantastic churches, five castles, and a complete lack of available information about any of them in French let alone in English...
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Thou art moss and unto moss thou shalt return
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Thou art moss and unto moss thou shalt return
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November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Fine them. Put the directors in jail. The privatized water companies have failed us all.
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
Southern Water has taken responsibility for the catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads that polluted the Sussex coastline.
Local charities reported a huge spill of millions of biobeads over the weekend, washing up on beaches including Camber Sands. Andy Dinsdale, the founder of the plastic pollution campaign group Strandliners, said it was the worst pollution event he had seen. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Fine them. Put the directors in jail. The privatized water companies have failed us all.
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Did Hobbits ruin the Shire?
Listen to this Rohan Beacon podcast hosted by Grima Wormtongue to learn the shocking truth!
Listen to this Rohan Beacon podcast hosted by Grima Wormtongue to learn the shocking truth!
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Did Hobbits ruin the Shire?
Listen to this Rohan Beacon podcast hosted by Grima Wormtongue to learn the shocking truth!
Listen to this Rohan Beacon podcast hosted by Grima Wormtongue to learn the shocking truth!
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India: 67th poorest country in the world
UK: 160th poorest country in the world
India: 100% rail electrification is affordable, and we have achieved this in 2025
UK: anything more than 39% electrification is unaffordable, and we will never achieve 100%
UK: 160th poorest country in the world
India: 100% rail electrification is affordable, and we have achieved this in 2025
UK: anything more than 39% electrification is unaffordable, and we will never achieve 100%
Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact:
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
India: 67th poorest country in the world
UK: 160th poorest country in the world
India: 100% rail electrification is affordable, and we have achieved this in 2025
UK: anything more than 39% electrification is unaffordable, and we will never achieve 100%
UK: 160th poorest country in the world
India: 100% rail electrification is affordable, and we have achieved this in 2025
UK: anything more than 39% electrification is unaffordable, and we will never achieve 100%
This is utterly shameful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is utterly shameful.
Is the replacement arch slightly on the huh? One of them is!
They didn't panic at St Mary's, Tansor when they realised their round headed tower arch had gone out of fashion, they just built one of those new fangled pointy ones inside it!
#SundayStonework
#SundayStonework
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Is the replacement arch slightly on the huh? One of them is!
Five months after moving in the first bookcase is sorted! This is Suffolk and Somerset. (Excluding the books on the railways of the counties, there wasn't room for them!)
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Five months after moving in the first bookcase is sorted! This is Suffolk and Somerset. (Excluding the books on the railways of the counties, there wasn't room for them!)
This sort of thing seems to be quite popular at the moment...
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This sort of thing seems to be quite popular at the moment...
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Just dropping this here so the Webster people can see a nice live example when they adopt my new word
Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just dropping this here so the Webster people can see a nice live example when they adopt my new word
The surprise pleasure of turning the car radio on and unexpectedly hearing an episode of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.(Had to sit in the car until it ended even after getting home obviously.) The episode about the Golgafrincham B Ark, if you want to know.
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The surprise pleasure of turning the car radio on and unexpectedly hearing an episode of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.(Had to sit in the car until it ended even after getting home obviously.) The episode about the Golgafrincham B Ark, if you want to know.
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Sharing the final version of my Ceffyl Dwr for #FolkloreFriday. Absolutely loved making this needle felt creation and getting really into the wire frame modelling
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sharing the final version of my Ceffyl Dwr for #FolkloreFriday. Absolutely loved making this needle felt creation and getting really into the wire frame modelling
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So this year will be the third hottest year on records - stretching back 176 years…big deal - but the first and second hottest years in that 176 year period are last year and the one before.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So this year will be the third hottest year on records - stretching back 176 years…big deal - but the first and second hottest years in that 176 year period are last year and the one before.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, with a 19% average decline in species abundance since 1970 and nearly 16.1% of species threatened with extinction.
A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction
The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, with a 19% average decline in species abundance since 1970 and nearly 16.1% of species threatened with extinction.
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It’s William Stukeley’s birthday 🎂 His landscape views are often just as interesting as the drawings of monuments - here’s his Prospect of Kits Coty House in Oct 1722
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s William Stukeley’s birthday 🎂 His landscape views are often just as interesting as the drawings of monuments - here’s his Prospect of Kits Coty House in Oct 1722
St Michael's, Raddington, Somerset for #AdoorableThursday Medieval door (Pevsner: C15, listing: C15) in an arched doorframe of two massive oak baulks. The ironwork is original; Pevsner describes it as 'a firework of foliage' (steady on Mr P!) A beautiful, unspoilt church in a beautiful location.
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
St Michael's, Raddington, Somerset for #AdoorableThursday Medieval door (Pevsner: C15, listing: C15) in an arched doorframe of two massive oak baulks. The ironwork is original; Pevsner describes it as 'a firework of foliage' (steady on Mr P!) A beautiful, unspoilt church in a beautiful location.
I choose to wear a white poppy. My parents, uncles and aunts fought a war to allow me that choice.
I wear a white poppy. I'm an RAF veteran who was shot in the leg in Afghanistan.
Fuck every single person trying to mandate red poppies in November. They're all flag shagging fascist fucks.
Fuck every single person trying to mandate red poppies in November. They're all flag shagging fascist fucks.
*fart noise*
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I choose to wear a white poppy. My parents, uncles and aunts fought a war to allow me that choice.
Went to see this a few years ago. Fantastic to see this tradition still going.
Flaming Tar Barrels Live. probably wont be the new big jets tv but got to be better than the one show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
Flaming tar barrels carried through streets of Ottery St Mary
The centuries-old tradition runs annually in Ottery St Mary on Bonfire Night.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Went to see this a few years ago. Fantastic to see this tradition still going.
I've pre-ordered mine. Don't disappoint Rhynie Man!
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I've pre-ordered mine. Don't disappoint Rhynie Man!
The mid 19th century roof of the Chateau de la Borderie, Benest, Poitou for #Woodensday This new chateau replaced a 15th century fortified house, still intact in the early 20th century, but sadly now ruined.
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The mid 19th century roof of the Chateau de la Borderie, Benest, Poitou for #Woodensday This new chateau replaced a 15th century fortified house, still intact in the early 20th century, but sadly now ruined.
Crossing the Tyne on the Tyne and Wear Metro. This is the older stock that is now being replaced. Anyone know if you can still get this view on the new units? #WindowsOnWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Crossing the Tyne on the Tyne and Wear Metro. This is the older stock that is now being replaced. Anyone know if you can still get this view on the new units? #WindowsOnWednesday