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@fenken.bsky.social
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Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
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Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike
A grey heron standing on a river bank. What else would I post?
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Adrian Edmondson and Peter Richardson as Colin Grigson, Den Dennis, Vim Fuego and Spider Webb, collectively known as BAD NEWS
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Nighthawks, #Fen edition...

#DailyHopper
A photograph of a farm taken at night. It is mostly two high powered lights on the outside of a barn that is lit up inside.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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#OTDH 1975 one of my favourite albums was released. 50 years old and still sounds fresher than a lot of more recent releases.

#PattiSmith
#Horses
A CD copy of Horses, by Patti Smith in a cracked case. The cover art is a black and white photo of Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe. She is wearing a pair of jeans and a white shirt with a black ribbon round her neck like an untied tie and a jacket over her shoulder. She has dark, shaggy hair.
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Early morning cat
A tabby cat asleep on a sofa, lit by the light from another room.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
fenken.bsky.social
I see your 'April 1805... Oceans are now battlefields', and I raise you...
Iain Gruffudd as Mr Midshipman Hornblower, in the cabin of HMS Indefatigable. For the avoidance of doubt, I am doing chores, but the boy is ill and has chosen to entertain himself with some prime telly. The girl merely remarked 'Tell me when he takes his shirt off'...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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#RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub includes a #heron for the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub, #SelfieSunday, a #DailyRothko, #FenLife and #TooManyHashtags
A grey heron stood on the bow of a narrow boat. A figureheron, if you will. Idiot in running gear stood in a river marina Dawn over the fen with mist rising from the ground to meet haze and a graduated apricot sky. Silhouettes of railway gantries and transmission towers Dawn rising behind the silhouettes of houses and trees.
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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So I went for a run today (with @benefitstheband.bsky.social - third fastest run since my op. Recommend Constant Noise as a running album). There was a #heron, some boats and some autumnal action.

#FenLife
A grey heron stood on the bank of a cutting just astern of a small cabin cruiser, most of which is out of shot. Black and white photo of a narrow boat, bow on, hauled out of the water on a patent slip Some leaves floating on the river. The light is odd and while the river is very still, the camera man is a bit shaky so there is a little movement. One of those photographic accidents that I quite like.
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Predictably...

Anal Chimney is a class band name, though
A picture of John Peel saying 'Next up we have Belgian thrash metal band Anal Chimney'
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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They do indeed. They are not specifically a Quaker thing (peace is the connection) and post date red poppies, but not by much.
A blue jacket with white poppy and a Palestine flag on it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I came on here to post about the RAF Ford Trimotor and the Lancaster Display Team I have seen advertised in the Fens, but I don't think they can compete with your poppy thong...
A silhouette of a Ford Trimotor aircraft surrounded by what I think are meant to be poppies, but are just red blobs with a black dot in the middle. Silhouette of an upside down Avro Lancaster surrounded by the same red blobs with black dots that I think are meant to look like poppies. There is a camouflage net in the window behind, prompting me to hear Les Barker reciting 'I can't find me camouflage net' inside my head. I put it down on me van and now I can't find that either...
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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'Tis the season to be...IT'S NOVEMBER!

When they power this lot up it is going to draw enough power to write a 200 word letter with AI...
A house covered in Christmas decorations. Seriously covered. Imagine a house as covered in light up Christmas decorations as you can get, then add several more. It is not remotely sensible. Probably serves as a useful navigation beacon for aircraft pilots and passing flying saucers.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Four out of six ships called HMS Invincible sank (one of them really quite assertively). Proving that they were actually pretty vincible...
HMS Invincible at Jutland. It is in the middle of its metamorphosis from battle cruiser to wreck. Oddly enough the ship was so long that while you can see the bow and the stern sticking out of the water here, the broken bits of hull are actually resting on the sea bed.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Continuing with learning to draw. The bow isn't quite right, but otherwise I am not displeased with this sketch of #HMSTerror just after dropping its towline (hence the odd yard positions). It is copied from a painting.

#Drawing #Learning
Pencil drawing of HMS Terror - a barque rigged bomb ship in polar exploration configuration. The foremast yards and spanker are trained to port and filling, while the mainmast yards are trained to starboard.
November 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Low light and a shaky hand might qualify this as a #DailyRothko, @richardmortimer.bsky.social?
Fen before dawn. The ground and sky are dark, with a yellow stripe between. There is a transmission tower just right of centre and a few lights. The overall effect is of an abstract painting.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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What's on the menu today, sir?
A gluten and apple-free Christmas pudding being fed with brandy with a syringe. Which probably makes it inoculation rather than feeding. Look, I live with a neurodiverse analytical chemist. They have a scientific approach to EVERYTHING...
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A terrible story, the telling of which demonstrates that @theguardian.com needs to employ better cartographers and/or get a better GIS...
A map of part of the south east of the UK, with King's Cross (a railway station) as a point and Huntingdon, a town in the county of Cambridgeshire, as a point with Cambridgeshire, a county that Huntingdon sits in and that takes up about 25% of the displayed map, as a single point 20 km to the east of Huntingdon (did I mention that is in Cambridgeshire?)
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub today includes #SelfieSunday, a #Heron, some weather, soundtrack by #Savages and thoughts going out to the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub
Idiot in the rain on a river bank Rainy dawn over a flat landscape. The sun is trying to assert itself through thick cloud over a power line held by three transmission towers A grey heron on a river bank
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Found a shot of my mid-late 16th century costume, complete with trunkles and the coolest wee cape. I should like to go back to wearing a wee cape.
Idiot with tabor and pipe and dressed in 16th century costume - yellow and green mi-parti hose (longitudinal stripes), with matching pansied trunkles (pansied meaning made from alternating panels of fabric), a green doublet with gold embroidered flowers and foliage over a white shirt with lace collar and cuffs (no black work, there should have been. I hadn't got round to it at that point, but it would have been hidden if there were anyway) and a green cape with a gold satin lining. Idiot has long hair and a goatee beard. He is holding a long plastic tabor pipe (in G) and a wooden shallow tabor. It is a good look, to be honest, but I think a little ostentatious for a trip to the Co-op. Because my customary kilt fits right in here in rural East Anglia...
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Tabor pipe, as in tabor and pipe/#PipeAndTabor

Was it a drainpipe didgeridoo? I have a eucalyptus wood one with a lovely tone.
Idiot playing tabor and pipe. The tabor is a wooden snare drum (played on the end with the snare on it) and the pipe is a three holed, end blown fipple pipe. With successive overblows and judicious cross-fingering, you can get over an octave and a half out of it. Both are played at the same time. The modern practice seems to be to play the melody and keep up a fairly simple beat, but historically one played the tabor and the melody accompaniment was secondary to that.
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I don't know what you said, but the cat isn't happy about it!
A tabby cat with his back to you. In the rain. Happy now?
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Thirty five years since I last saw the Young Gods live and they have aged like a fine wine
Three middle aged Swiss men on stage. One plays guitar, one a set of electronics and one drums. Idiot in mustard coloured tank top and blue cotton jacket at a punk gig. I mean, who wears a home knitted tank top to a punk gig? I overheated when I started dancing, then couldn't take it off as it has no sleeves to tie round my waist.
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Post something random or you'll have an awful November
This is a cylinder from a Bristol Hercules engine. It is round, with lots of cooling fins. There is a band around the middle with the valve openings. They are chamfered asymmetric trapezoids. The engine was sleeve valves, so a sleeve with matching apertures rotated inside - the valves opened when the apertures coincided. As I have various work-related photos on my phone, and photos of my kids, this isn't truly random. 3637193 is a number generated by a random number generator working on atmospheric noise, rather than a pseudo-random function like a Riemann-Zeta function. Just in case. Although copying and pasting the number in here also makes that a non-random act. Shit November here we come!
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
Some pollarded willow lit from behind. You can also see the moon. I reckon if you could extract the exif data from the photo then you could pinpoint this location within a couple of kms with some accurate astrnomical tables, clever maths and the navigational abilities of Frank Worsley...
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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#WoodOnWednesday Choir stalls, #Rochester Cathedral, Kent.
Black and white photo of the choir stalls in Rochester Cathedral, looking along the stalls. Bench seats in front, separated bench seats behind. Candle bulbs in tall glass chimneys
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM