Annie Drynan
@adrynan.bsky.social
Newly acquired PhD in C19th Brighton & Hove associational culture. Other interests: birds, gardens, running, family history, music. I used to do what was then called UX many years ago.
So once you are fit after using your Peleton device maybe you’ll be big and strong enough to jump on the box and cut it up so it will
FIT in the recycling bin, you selfish git.
& don’t tell me the bin was full - you clearly hadn’t cut it up at home so were planning on leaving it on the pavement.
FIT in the recycling bin, you selfish git.
& don’t tell me the bin was full - you clearly hadn’t cut it up at home so were planning on leaving it on the pavement.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
So once you are fit after using your Peleton device maybe you’ll be big and strong enough to jump on the box and cut it up so it will
FIT in the recycling bin, you selfish git.
& don’t tell me the bin was full - you clearly hadn’t cut it up at home so were planning on leaving it on the pavement.
FIT in the recycling bin, you selfish git.
& don’t tell me the bin was full - you clearly hadn’t cut it up at home so were planning on leaving it on the pavement.
Never dreamt I would spend so much time today trying to sort a massive jamb in my 50 year old sewing machine - and failing to fix it.
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Never dreamt I would spend so much time today trying to sort a massive jamb in my 50 year old sewing machine - and failing to fix it.
He was also involved in local philanthropic work when he lived in Brighton.
Died at 101! His gravestone in St Nicholas’s graveyard in Brighton has recently been restored:
Died at 101! His gravestone in St Nicholas’s graveyard in Brighton has recently been restored:
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
He was also involved in local philanthropic work when he lived in Brighton.
Died at 101! His gravestone in St Nicholas’s graveyard in Brighton has recently been restored:
Died at 101! His gravestone in St Nicholas’s graveyard in Brighton has recently been restored:
So the village where I grew up may become a new town. Can I just point that the development is called Adlington because that is the name of the parish (hence the stately is “Adlington Hall”) NOT because that happens to be the name of the nearby station.
September 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
So the village where I grew up may become a new town. Can I just point that the development is called Adlington because that is the name of the parish (hence the stately is “Adlington Hall”) NOT because that happens to be the name of the nearby station.
Anyone share my obsession with keeping shoe boxes & other good cardboard boxes in case they come in handy?
Just destroyed a load and off to the recycling.
Of course, tomorrow I will really NEED a good cardboard box…
Just destroyed a load and off to the recycling.
Of course, tomorrow I will really NEED a good cardboard box…
September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Anyone share my obsession with keeping shoe boxes & other good cardboard boxes in case they come in handy?
Just destroyed a load and off to the recycling.
Of course, tomorrow I will really NEED a good cardboard box…
Just destroyed a load and off to the recycling.
Of course, tomorrow I will really NEED a good cardboard box…
Last #HeritageOpenDay2025 was St Stephen’s chapel in Brighton. Was originally Assembly Rooms, then Chapel Royal. Then was moved, brick by brick, inland to be a chapel. Then was empty & is now a great day centre for homeless people. Kept the original structure & built kitchen & office space inside.
September 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Last #HeritageOpenDay2025 was St Stephen’s chapel in Brighton. Was originally Assembly Rooms, then Chapel Royal. Then was moved, brick by brick, inland to be a chapel. Then was empty & is now a great day centre for homeless people. Kept the original structure & built kitchen & office space inside.
Today’s #HeritageOpenDays2025
was a walk and talk at Whitehawk causewayed enclosure. Great stuff despite the cold and the howling wind.
was a walk and talk at Whitehawk causewayed enclosure. Great stuff despite the cold and the howling wind.
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today’s #HeritageOpenDays2025
was a walk and talk at Whitehawk causewayed enclosure. Great stuff despite the cold and the howling wind.
was a walk and talk at Whitehawk causewayed enclosure. Great stuff despite the cold and the howling wind.
Cheered by a #heritageOpenday visit to the Brighton Engineerium - the Goldstone Water Pumping station. A beautifully restored building full of elegantly engineered pump equipment. Struck as ever by the Victorian view that it was important to make machinery and their buildings functional and pleasing
September 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Cheered by a #heritageOpenday visit to the Brighton Engineerium - the Goldstone Water Pumping station. A beautifully restored building full of elegantly engineered pump equipment. Struck as ever by the Victorian view that it was important to make machinery and their buildings functional and pleasing
Number 2 in “why on earth have we still got this mug?” - I worked for BoldonJames 1992-95, meaning this mug is more than 30 years old!
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Number 2 in “why on earth have we still got this mug?” - I worked for BoldonJames 1992-95, meaning this mug is more than 30 years old!
Another rather depressing day news-wise.
But look - we saw wallabies and tall trees.
But look - we saw wallabies and tall trees.
September 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another rather depressing day news-wise.
But look - we saw wallabies and tall trees.
But look - we saw wallabies and tall trees.
Just realised this mug is 21 years old! Posh mugs come and break, this old timer goes on and on.
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Just realised this mug is 21 years old! Posh mugs come and break, this old timer goes on and on.
I see your Amberley man, and give you: the Brighton Police Cells Museum officer
August 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I see your Amberley man, and give you: the Brighton Police Cells Museum officer
This is what a certain AI schema thinks I should wear to my local #ParkRun #HovePromParkrun
June 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is what a certain AI schema thinks I should wear to my local #ParkRun #HovePromParkrun
I think the 15 Yr old me revising Peterloo and the Corn Laws for O Level would have been astounded to know that 55 years later Uni of Leicester would confer a PhD in C19th history on me. Go me! Never too old.
June 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think the 15 Yr old me revising Peterloo and the Corn Laws for O Level would have been astounded to know that 55 years later Uni of Leicester would confer a PhD in C19th history on me. Go me! Never too old.
New water dispenser in the waiting room yesterday.
Today someone has stuck on a typed notice explaining how to use it.
Not what you’d call intuitive.
Today someone has stuck on a typed notice explaining how to use it.
Not what you’d call intuitive.
June 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New water dispenser in the waiting room yesterday.
Today someone has stuck on a typed notice explaining how to use it.
Not what you’d call intuitive.
Today someone has stuck on a typed notice explaining how to use it.
Not what you’d call intuitive.
What a shame next door’s builders done know that you don’t throw filthy water over someone else’s flowerbed.
June 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
What a shame next door’s builders done know that you don’t throw filthy water over someone else’s flowerbed.
Trip to A&E revealed wrist fractured in a couple of places. Now in a cast. Hopefully won’t stop the radiotherapy in2 weeks time. Thanks to the volunteers at #HovePromenadeParkrun and to the A&E staff who were brilliant.
But what a pain. Sometimes life just bites you on the b*m, doesn’t it?
But what a pain. Sometimes life just bites you on the b*m, doesn’t it?
April 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Trip to A&E revealed wrist fractured in a couple of places. Now in a cast. Hopefully won’t stop the radiotherapy in2 weeks time. Thanks to the volunteers at #HovePromenadeParkrun and to the A&E staff who were brilliant.
But what a pain. Sometimes life just bites you on the b*m, doesn’t it?
But what a pain. Sometimes life just bites you on the b*m, doesn’t it?
I must have first read this 60 years ago. It confirmed my love of novels with maps and novels with identifiable (and visitable) locations. (I was brought up a few miles from Alderley Edge.) and it’s still a cracking read.
April 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I must have first read this 60 years ago. It confirmed my love of novels with maps and novels with identifiable (and visitable) locations. (I was brought up a few miles from Alderley Edge.) and it’s still a cracking read.
Spent this morning watching cormorants building their nests in trees.
For a large bird, they only seem to carry footling little twigs.
The other highlight was hearing, identifying and then watching a water rail. What a lovely bird.
For a large bird, they only seem to carry footling little twigs.
The other highlight was hearing, identifying and then watching a water rail. What a lovely bird.
March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Spent this morning watching cormorants building their nests in trees.
For a large bird, they only seem to carry footling little twigs.
The other highlight was hearing, identifying and then watching a water rail. What a lovely bird.
For a large bird, they only seem to carry footling little twigs.
The other highlight was hearing, identifying and then watching a water rail. What a lovely bird.
Hello, Hot Cross Bun, it’s been a while. (Somewhat perversely, the beginning of Lent is when we STaRT our eating of HCBs and mini-eggs, even tho they are in the shops pretty much all year)
March 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hello, Hot Cross Bun, it’s been a while. (Somewhat perversely, the beginning of Lent is when we STaRT our eating of HCBs and mini-eggs, even tho they are in the shops pretty much all year)
My blue jeans?
Swinging.
Swinging.
February 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
My blue jeans?
Swinging.
Swinging.
Went for a walk. Here’s the West Pier looking like it’s been transferred to flipping Scarborough! What a day.
February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Went for a walk. Here’s the West Pier looking like it’s been transferred to flipping Scarborough! What a day.
Good #UX never dies. I must have had this conference swag bag for 15+? years. (From the days when the conf. was at Hyde Park Corner)
It is my go-to bag for nipping to the shops for some bread.
It is my go-to bag for nipping to the shops for some bread.
February 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Good #UX never dies. I must have had this conference swag bag for 15+? years. (From the days when the conf. was at Hyde Park Corner)
It is my go-to bag for nipping to the shops for some bread.
It is my go-to bag for nipping to the shops for some bread.
I gave most of my protest badges from the ‘70s -‘90s to the #BishopsgateLibrary when we left London. Hope they still have them!
February 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I gave most of my protest badges from the ‘70s -‘90s to the #BishopsgateLibrary when we left London. Hope they still have them!
