I saw the Romance of Alexander manuscript today in the brilliant Bodleian Treasures exhibition - open on a different page (I didn’t notice any fish) but just stunning.

And even more blissfully peaceful… @rspbotmoor.bsky.social

The peace of wild things: semi(?) wild, very friendly horses enjoying the sunshine in their meadow. The woolly foal was especially sweet!

I haven’t seen many blue skies on Bluesky lately - here’s today’s over Oxford ☀️

I had good intentions of getting some work done, but it’s a bit hard to reach my keyboard now.

Unexpected discovery on this morning’s run: a dog cemetery 🐕 (I presume). Naturally I stopped only through curiosity, in no way related to unfitness caused by seasonal overindulgence and lethargy.

When reading and the weather are in perfect accord… from The Old English Rune Poem, in Eleanor Parker’s beautifully written Winters in the World: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year.

Found in a 1942 edition of The Republic of Plato - this card belonged to Air Staff Officer Victor Callaghan, on special duties to HMS Trumpeter. Wondering if I’m the first person to open it since he left it there.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like - Narnia? Bodleian Library, Oxford displaying one of its many portals into other worlds.

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I don’t need more books. My shelves will break. I’ll walk right past… alright, bookshop, you win…

Blackwell’s Broad St, Oxford - seems it’s actually impossible to walk past.

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