Anooshka Rawden
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Anooshka Rawden
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#museums #collections #archaeology #landscapes Formerly Museum Development SE, Science Museum Group, Society of Antiquaries, Chichester Museum, Reading Museum. Mainly #dogs #cats #books #archery and musings. All views my own.
Up and out early to walk with Sing Thrush and Carion Crows. A beautiful day.
March 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Heritage delivers so much for nature, as havens and homes. Sitting in the church yard, just four minutes and so many birds shared their song. I walked by the pond to get here and saw a kingfisher and a heron. Heritage preserves more than earthworks and mortar.
February 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Over the moon to have been made a Fellow of @societyofauthors.bsky.social I am eternally grateful to the person who nominated me, who saw something in me that I didn’t, and to all those who supported my nomination. As a peer nominated membership, this has meant a lot to me. Thank you.
February 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Walk today. A march up the hill and then a saunter around the church yard. Snowdrops out. Leaves turning from brown to green. Moss on stone. Birds building.
February 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Using some timber reviver to give a beam above a window some love. It had been encased in layers and layers of unbreathable paint over 30 years or so, and there was a concern it was rotting underneath. Gentle chemical removal of the paint and some beeswax love, and it’s looking so much happier ❤️
February 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Got in two hours of archery practice this morning. This end was going well until my last shot, when I lost focus and I moved my foot and dropped my shoulder. Consistency is tough, but so is losing focus and letting worry seep into a calm mind. Definitely need a bit more practice. 🏹🏹🏹
January 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trees consuming metal. Deer trails. Natures barrow builders. Mud. Leaves. Edgelands.

Todays walk.
January 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
View over the valley from the back garden fence.
January 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Yesterdays walk. Heady heights. Icy chalk.
January 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The big man always has to have the last word. He’s good at gentle warnings when she is being annoying. #malamutes #alaskanmalamute
January 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy new year from these gorgeous hooligans. Hope 2025 is a kind year to all.
January 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I find this time of year very hard, so have been getting out for a daily walk. Living somewhere else, I am finding old paths in new places. Today I explore chalk pits, rope swings, railway bridges.
December 31, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Yesterday’s walk a bit bleak but ended wandering around the churchyard, where every life is an unread story. One tragically, the grave of a boy killed by a fallen tree aged 7 in 1874. His parents write in sorrow “we leave our home in health and joy” a reminder we can never know what lies ahead.
December 31, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Ponies on Butser Hill this morning, making up for the grey skies. Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2024 at 12:40 PM
She now owns the cushions…
December 24, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Mum makes me two lovely floor cushions and as soon as they’re down, they’re skillfully modelled by Nanuk….

These may no longer be my cushions….
December 24, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Return to #archery after four months off and boy do I need the practice. Realise it’s tough to remember everything needed for accuracy, core, draw, release, breathing, shoulders, finger position… I need to make more time to practice in 2025. Lovely to see people though at the last shoot of 2024. 🏹
December 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Lovely chance to catch up with Katrina Burton at Amberley and see the conservation work to address Heritage at Risk, thanks to MEND funding. A reminder of just how critical this fund has been. A quirky, unique one of a king site with something of everything.
December 11, 2024 at 5:56 AM
The Association for Heritage Interpretation journal has featured an article written by myself and colleague Emily Summers Mileman on the experience of creating site #interpretation with a writers community, reframing the #landscape through diverse experiences and perspectives of belonging. #museum
December 8, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Beginning to look a lot like Christmas….

(Predicting that the dogs will have the tree over before today is out….)
December 8, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Thank goodness the roof is still on despite the wind!
December 8, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Draught proofing a very old house using sheep wool. #StormDarragh
December 7, 2024 at 11:01 AM
On my way to the gym, and musing that there can’t be many people born in the 80s who don’t know all the lyrics to this 1992 classic.
December 6, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Thatcher here today to redo the ridge before the end of the year. I wish I had more time today to watch this amazing skill in action - another instance where built heritage is an archive of past landscapes, from chalk marl quarried between here & Amberley to a roof reflecting past agriculture.
December 4, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Getting this poem by Adam Horovitz framed. A reminder that it starts and ends with the soil.

“The Soil Never Sleeps” (2017)
November 30, 2024 at 2:20 PM