Egregious tights/shoes combo

Upset a classicist today by pronouncing ‘Loeb’ as ‘lube’

it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z

I have one coping mechanism atm and I’m afraid it’s ‘Lord of the Rings / The Grey Havens Music & Ambience, 3 Hours’ on YouTube

All quite glowy here

I wondered why my headphones were so quiet. I turned the volume up, then up again. I realised my Bluetooth wasn’t on. I was broadcasting the audiobook of New Moon to the good people of Sainsbury’s.

Happy bisexual visibility day! Make the most of being able to see me!

Take a look at those leaves! 🍂 To mark the #AutumnEquinox I’m enjoying this 14th-century image of a little nun getting a boost from a monk to admire the vine leaf decoration of the page border 📜🍁

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Bodl. 264, f. 98v

I spent a good hour looking through this 17th century book for a transcription of a late antique funerary poem. Turns out that it’s in the second edition and the Bodleian only has the first. Irritating world-class library.

Using an umbrella is so embarrassing. Here is my little portable roof which I leave on trains and in pubs!