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Knitter & stitcher 🧶 | Historic sites volunteer 🏰 | Lapsed medievalist 📜 | Genealogy & local history 📖 #OnePlaceStudy | Metal 🎧 | Folklore 🖤 | she/her
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Tonight's viewing (the former for the first time!) Have a delicious Halloween.
Movie poster for The Witch (2015) Movie poster for Sleepy Hollow (1999)
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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On this day in 1795, a tax on hair powder came into effect, intended to help finance Britain's part in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_on...
The Toilette of the State Prosecutor’s Clerk, an illustration of c. 1768 by Carle Vernet, showing one person seated and shielding their face with a cone while another applies hair powder using a brush
May 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Post your favourite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only
Father Vito Cornelius, portrayed by Ian Holm, in The Fifth Element (1997)
January 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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A vision in mustard, on a sofa bed in the study. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
A sofa bed, in a small room that usually functions as a study, folded out ready for a guest, made up with mustard-yellow floral bedding.
December 24, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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In the latest of my adventures in taking photos on film, I took my camera to Rievaulx Abbey. I had mixed levels of success, but I particularly like this one!
A black and white image of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, taken on film, giving it a moody, haunted vibe.
November 15, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Any ideas for how to stop @bsky.app doing this when using the Search box in the Chrome desktop browser?
screenshot of the Bluesky web interface, with the cursor focused on the Search box, causing a Chrome password management prompt to appear as a tooltip overlaid on the screen
October 10, 2023 at 6:46 PM