Archidave
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"Stick-in-the-mud" The Times. "His Influence is spreading" Radio 4. Heritage stuff and rubbish. Views my own, not my employer.
'The old man, his son, and his ass' is definitely a specialist gentlemen's movie I've seen before.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'The old man, his son, and his ass' is definitely a specialist gentlemen's movie I've seen before.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
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Please can you all stop calling him Steve. This phase will probably only last a day or two. Thanks.
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Please can you all stop calling him Steve. This phase will probably only last a day or two. Thanks.
Is 10,677 files too many to have on your desktop? Asking for a friend...
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Is 10,677 files too many to have on your desktop? Asking for a friend...
Stopped abruptly half way across the office to tell a colleague the patch of sweat on his back looked like a face-hugger. Thought better of it, so just waved at him at close range.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Stopped abruptly half way across the office to tell a colleague the patch of sweat on his back looked like a face-hugger. Thought better of it, so just waved at him at close range.
Today’s research agenda:
- Azerbaijan glassware
- Malta Railway
- Bristol water supply in the 17th century
- Azerbaijan glassware
- Malta Railway
- Bristol water supply in the 17th century
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Today’s research agenda:
- Azerbaijan glassware
- Malta Railway
- Bristol water supply in the 17th century
- Azerbaijan glassware
- Malta Railway
- Bristol water supply in the 17th century
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Anyone know what this odd pebble is? I’m assuming geological not archaeological?
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Anyone know what this odd pebble is? I’m assuming geological not archaeological?
I smell of bad mood this morning
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I smell of bad mood this morning
Share a famous fictional computer. (Not a robot/android)
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Share a famous fictional computer. (Not a robot/android)
I thought train ticket pricing was supposed to be simplified and transparent?! These numbers look so unfathomable as to look like they've been generated by Ai
November 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I thought train ticket pricing was supposed to be simplified and transparent?! These numbers look so unfathomable as to look like they've been generated by Ai
Why is postage so damn expensive now? Anything I want seems to require double it's cost in postage.
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Why is postage so damn expensive now? Anything I want seems to require double it's cost in postage.
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
Handy for the airport
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Handy for the airport
Do these croissants sting? Is this nature’s warning?
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Do these croissants sting? Is this nature’s warning?
Don’t you have a more rabbity dessert please?
October 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Don’t you have a more rabbity dessert please?
Photo-dump: Selmun Palace, Mellieha, and the Red Fort.
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Photo-dump: Selmun Palace, Mellieha, and the Red Fort.
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You can just see inside this window in Malta a Murano Glass clown. It was bought for my grandmother in 1965 for her wedding. She hated it. It was put on this window cill became hated it. She’s been dead 40 years. My grandad moved back to the UK 30 years ago and the clown stayed.
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
You can just see inside this window in Malta a Murano Glass clown. It was bought for my grandmother in 1965 for her wedding. She hated it. It was put on this window cill became hated it. She’s been dead 40 years. My grandad moved back to the UK 30 years ago and the clown stayed.
You can just see inside this window in Malta a Murano Glass clown. It was bought for my grandmother in 1965 for her wedding. She hated it. It was put on this window cill became hated it. She’s been dead 40 years. My grandad moved back to the UK 30 years ago and the clown stayed.
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
You can just see inside this window in Malta a Murano Glass clown. It was bought for my grandmother in 1965 for her wedding. She hated it. It was put on this window cill became hated it. She’s been dead 40 years. My grandad moved back to the UK 30 years ago and the clown stayed.