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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Worrying news, from Amal today "My fever went up to 40°C, and I’m still very weak and exhausted after giving birth. They found that I have a severe infection and my white blood cell count is also very high. I’m still feeling very sick and need treatment." Please help 🍉🙏❤️ gofund.me/32bda5e44

Amal in hospital, her baby in the foreground

Amal, a woman in a headscarf, hospital equipment behind her.

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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This Monday's 'Meet Your ICAZ Member' is Richard Madgwick! To be featured, please email answers to the provided questions to gmail.com, along with a photo of yourself or your work. #ICAZ #Zooarch

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And not just when but also how. Chillies to India are relatively easy, they're easy to stow in early modern cargo ships, but pigs to Polynesia would be a bit trickier in catamarans or whatever vessels they had 4000 years ago. I think they must have put piglets in sacks.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This would be a great little zooarch/archaeobotany outreach project. I still find it difficult to imagine a time when Indian cuisine didn't have chillies.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So sorry you can't make it. Yes, a great line up - I'm especially looking forward to seeing Myrath and Battle Born.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Been listening to Fortune Teller a lot myself, prep for next weekend at KKs!

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I spent the first half of the film wondering why they'd cast Dara O'Brien

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sophie laying claim to an entire three-seater sofa. (She will, of course, remain undisturbed.)

Small black and white cat curled up asleep in the exact centre of a three seater sofa. The sofa is an IKEA Ektorp with a green throw.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This reminded me of the difference between The Cat dancing in the Red Dwarf episode "Parallel Universe", and his considerably less sophisticated Dog alter ego.

Danny John Jules as the very cool cat in Red Dwarf. He is dancing and wearing a salmon pink suit.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hi! I'll always follow a Helloween fan 😁

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lovely run out on the lower paths around the Beacon this morning. Looking east, with the King's Ditch in the foreground. #trailrunning #runningpunks #malvern

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This BBC story about EVs and car sickness includes a quote from an American doctor. "'I've heard about it many, many, many times,' he adds, saying about two patients a month specifically reference feeling motion sick in electric vehicles." Many, many, many. Two a month.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminds me of Nandor the Relentless shopping for crepe paper.

A flamoyantly-dressed vampire shopping for stationery accompanied by a short man wearing a putty-coloured anorak. The vampire is carrying a red plastic shopping basket.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams? The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian. #HillfortsWednesday

Wild ponies grazing on a grassy hilltop.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, this is absolutely what is required!

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The tree planting provides evidence that Something is Being Done. Statements made, money allocated, contracts signed, boxes ticked. Simply letting nature regenerate is much harder to quantify, despite it being more successful.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At some point soon I will have finished recording this box of bone and will need to replace the lid. This will not be a popular move.

Black and white cat lying in the upturned lid of a cardboard box. The box is nearby, partially filled with bags of archaeological animal bone.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've never repeated the experiment - I'm not a fan either!

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A while ago my son in law did an AI search on my name for me. The amount of information assembled was pretty disturbing and included several inaccuracies. It also produced a photo of a very blokey chap with an impressive beard. Guess that was inevitable, given that key words included 'archaeology'.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hi, Brit here. Just spent a happy few minutes scrolling through all your super photos! Great memories of the cars my dad used to have, and days out watching sports car racing in the late 70s. Lovely cats too.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It certainly gives a different perspective, and I like that it's based on real data. I'm going to start looking for a nice little 5k race to work towards. It's good to have a goal to focus on.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I checked these out and I've got a bit of catching up to do but the comparisons were really encouraging!

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks! I was really going for it 😄

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My Evri parcel, a birthday gift from my aunt, was a week late. It turned up eventually - it had been opened and everything of value removed, and then roughly taped up again. There was literally no way to report the lateness or theft on the website, and no contact number. My poor aunt was so upset.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

His face! A real-life Cheshire Cat ❤️

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love stats too! I'd forgotten about the age grading though - must check that out, thanks 😊

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's all pretty half-hearted (or half-something, anyway).

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heartbreaking that so much progress will be lost. I hope the government will look again at the funding.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is great progress! Maybe it's all the cheese 😁

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seeing All for Metal at KK's in a couple of weeks and definitely going to be singing along.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With no phone and my elderly Garmin on strike, I had to wait till I got home to find I'd done a sub-41 minutes parkrun! I've accepted that I'll probably never do a sub-30 again, but I'm beginning to feel that things are definitely improving! Photo: Worcester Woods parkrun #runningpunks

City park with runners on an uphill tarmacked path. The hill is steeper than it looks in the photo.
Photo: Worcester parkrun Facebook page

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great to add a mountaineering badger to our garden species list. The hillside is very steep and rocky! The footage is not TV nature programme standard but I'm chuffed to bits.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's always lovely to hear of actors who have time for the public, especially their younger fans. A few minutes can mean a memory to last a lifetime.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"So if you want to be like Avon, Vila, Tarrant..." I wanted to be like Servalan.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I live near a very popular primary school on a narrow, twisty road with no proper parking. I want to print this off and leave it under windscreen wipers.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ah, that explains why I haven't seen them in St Albans then. Will have to go further afield!

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've yet to see one - daughter lives in Hertfordshire though, and I think there are a lot there, so I keep a look out when I visit!

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The extraordinary 3,000 year-old ‘Berlin Gold Hat’! One of four known cone-shaped golden ‘hats’ from ancient Europe. Sheet gold decorated with bands of solar and lunar motifs, which may represent calendars according to latest research. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a very tall, slender, conical gold object known as the Berlin Gold Hat, displayed against a dark museum background. At the top end, the tall slender cone narrows to a pointy tip.
At the bottom it widens into a rounded base with a broad flat brim. It is made of very thin hammered sheet gold, the entire surface of which is embossed with horizontal bands of decoration. Repeated motifs of concentric circles, disks, ovals, and other symbols, are thought to represent the sun and moon. According to latest research this may represent solar and lunar calendars. It is dated to the late Bronze Age, c. 1000-800 BC. It is 74 cm tall and weighs 480 gms. On display at Neues Museum, Berlin. It is one of only four known golden ‘hats’ from ancient Europe. Three from Germany and one from France.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I visited the Neues Museum last year specifically to see this. Nothing prepares you for the reality! It's displayed very effectively too.

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not an amateur archaeologist, or any other kind. The Guardian should know better. Still, he did contact the authorities at an early stage, so that's something. Amateur archaeologist finds 934 Roman silver denarii in German field | Germany | The Guardian share.google/SapJQ5dU6qYu...

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Amateur archaeologist finds 934 Roman silver denarii in German field

The hoard, buried south of Cologne in the second century AD, is the biggest coin treasure ever found in Germany from the time of Hadrian

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Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Matt Berry! (To be honest, I say that every time a voice actor is required)

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