David Scourfield
@jhdscourfield.bsky.social
Classicist and Modernist, Em. Prof. Working on a monograph on E. M. Forster and Classics, and a new edition of his novel The Longest Journey for Cambridge UP. Welsh/Irish.
When TV execs run out of ideas. Game of Wool.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
When TV execs run out of ideas. Game of Wool.
Autumn tones. North County Kildare, 3 November 2025
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Autumn tones. North County Kildare, 3 November 2025
Today's new arrival -- an extraordinary 1000-page achievement by a dear friend of many years, and indispensable for a piece of work I'm busy with right now!
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Today's new arrival -- an extraordinary 1000-page achievement by a dear friend of many years, and indispensable for a piece of work I'm busy with right now!
Today's new arrival, and it's hot stuff!
August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today's new arrival, and it's hot stuff!
Honestly, these two restaurants are next to each other in Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton (the northern end of Johannesburg).
August 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Honestly, these two restaurants are next to each other in Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton (the northern end of Johannesburg).
View from the lodge
August 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
View from the lodge
This morning on the edge of Kruger
August 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This morning on the edge of Kruger
Tonight on the edge of Kruger
August 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Tonight on the edge of Kruger
The most surprising thing about our lovely safari lodge in South Africa is that all the other guests are Brazilian (and not a single group). BRICS solidarity.
August 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The most surprising thing about our lovely safari lodge in South Africa is that all the other guests are Brazilian (and not a single group). BRICS solidarity.
06:39 this morning, Limpopo Province.
August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
06:39 this morning, Limpopo Province.
Our Johannesburg hotel in winter. (Also, for all the crazy traffic and the potholes, this city still has a fantastic vibe -- and the greatest shopping malls in the world, without exception.)
August 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Our Johannesburg hotel in winter. (Also, for all the crazy traffic and the potholes, this city still has a fantastic vibe -- and the greatest shopping malls in the world, without exception.)
Ballito Bay at night
August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ballito Bay at night
Snow on the Drakensberg
August 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Snow on the Drakensberg
Saturday night in Jo'burg
August 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Saturday night in Jo'burg
So honestly, Johannesburg is still one of the great cities for food and for shopping. Fantastic range of both here in Rosebank.
August 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So honestly, Johannesburg is still one of the great cities for food and for shopping. Fantastic range of both here in Rosebank.
Not a terrible place to be attending a conference.
July 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not a terrible place to be attending a conference.
One of my favourite views. Cardiff Bay.
July 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
One of my favourite views. Cardiff Bay.
Gerald of Wales
June 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Gerald of Wales
And in wider perspective
June 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
And in wider perspective
St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire / Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, Sir Benfro
June 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire / Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, Sir Benfro
Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, 5 June 2025
June 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, 5 June 2025
Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, where Malcolm Campbell first broke the world land speed record in 1924 and I had a great family holiday several decades later, when I was 11 ...
June 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, where Malcolm Campbell first broke the world land speed record in 1924 and I had a great family holiday several decades later, when I was 11 ...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire
June 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Tenby, Pembrokeshire