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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Probably will count this as CPD given the number of cows I've had to ask to be moved

'Field Work: What Land Does to People and What People Do to Land', by Bella Bathurst

Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Was thinking of how much it was a spiritual sequel to Aly's 'Hitler's Benenficiaries' right up to the afterword where he explicitly says it is.

Harald Jähner's 'Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich'

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Pretty much true of most construction related-rentals. The money comes from them being constantly out in a site rather than in their yard, so much so that we've off-hired portaloos etc and had them collected weeks later.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Impossible not to see them all as the Pythons (and Coogan)

Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Recently watched Local Hero for the first time. I say first time, took me three attempts as the stream kept buffering, rendering useless any comedic or poignant timing.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Not intended as a slight on the book (entertaining and well written), but five months to read a book probably isn't a good look on me

Giles Milton's 'Churchill Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warefare'

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Big opportunity missed here by not using a Bobcat

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2026

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-unc…

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

EH have started opening up Tynemouth Priory for sunrise walks for free, closing for an hour or so before opening again at normal times for normal pricing. I've not looked into it, and it seems fairly irregular when it happens, but I don't think it gives wider access than the usual ticketed entry.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I did get a little slated on the old site for daring to suggest many famous sites are simply just fields (Yeavering, Spong Hill etc), but nothing beats seeing it in person. Sutton Hoo for definite comes across far better on the ground than any of the excavation reports tell you.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A very cold breeze to blow away the cobwebs

Sunrise at a trig point. The golden rays have just poked above the horizon with the concrete post still covered in frost.

A selfie of myself stood in from of the trig point, the sun glaring at me from behind the camera. My orange coat is reflects back the orange light as if it was glowing.

View of the access road snaking down the hilltop, long shadows cast by the snow poles.

View of my car's info screen when I set off, telling me that the air temperature was -5 degrees Celsius

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Spiritually appropriately, this book was started in a sunny beer garden in Norwich then continued in a sunny field in north-west Norfolk back in July, and largely finished in a wet and cold site cabin in a Shropshire field in December.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Continuing the thread with the last/first of 2025 and 2026. Definitely a book that is heavily on the pro-site-visit side.

Duncan Mackay's 'Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudicca'

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(Realised I never put this one) Never trust a Nazi was my takeaway.

Daniel Lee's 'The SS Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi'

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/12/2025

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

PSA: Adultbels are currently for sale in Sainsbury's.

The appropriately-sized hand of a six-foot tall person holds a 'Maxi Babybel' out to the camera. It is large. It is chunky. It is a big boi. It is roughly the size of the palm, and feels substantial.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It’s a Christmas market. Yes it looks like a boot sale in the car park but we’ve got mulled wine and Geoff made some mince pies.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Very middle-aged man vibes from my YouTube history

YouTube Wrapped screenshot. My top five interests are vehicles, cooking, military history, comedy, and boats.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My dad is a Methodist minister and I used to crawl from the back of the church right up to the front to be picked up and held by him whilst he preached. A number of times the person up front was not him, but still picked me up and carried on regardless.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Potentially. Too crowded to bother waiting to try, so it’ll always be a mystery

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

And what, exactly, makes it a Paddington Pie?

Photo shows a market stall selling savoury meat-based snacks. A sign advertises the Pie of the Day, which is listed as 'Poppy's Paddington Pie' with a hand drawn illustration of Paddington Bear.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Missed it by heading south for work, but we did have snow flurries yesterday morning.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Meant to share these ages ago but life got in the way. Metal detectors for sale at Go Outdoors back before the summer, explicitly with the goal of finding "treasure" and "relics"...

Close up of information and accompanying photos next to the detectors, saying that they can be used to find coins, treasure, relics and jewellery.

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Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project @sedgefordarch.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The bookings for the 2026 season are now open! The 2026 season will be a special one for us as we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, so there has never been a better time to join us! Just visit www.sharp.org.uk for more details!

Poster for the course booking. The season is between the 12th of July to the 7th of August, with excavation and human remains courses now available to be booked. More courses will also be advertised soon.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It did result in a very funny advert that Google put out of our head of IT doing his best "as a history teacher, I love the Google software" impression, that got played a lot in the school in random lessons as adverts on YouTube had realised that school/teacher accounts needed to be targeted to.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Doesn't add much, but that's my old school uniform (them having made money on selling loads of stock photos one year), and that school had absolutely bought into the tech bro nonsense. We were even a 'Google school' at one point, using Chromebooks and their own e-classroom website.

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help. Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology survey.app.do/archaeologis...

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BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS

Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It's a poster of some research I did in undergrad. No one needs this.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Operating 'a one for you, one for me' policy with my treat bowl tonight.

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Went out last night to see the local regional orchestra perform* and it was nice to see people still make the effort to dress up** to go out to the theatre. *How To Train Your Dragon play along **as vikings

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If anything, his position adds to the viewing experience

A cat sits on the tv stand, right in front of the tv, bang in the centre and blocking a lot of the content.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Badenoch reading Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness and thinking how much more economic growth comes from making poorer people buy cheap boots over and over

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Because it's back to school, you're not allowed any modern technology" Babes, for a good majority of these contestants "Back to school" means 2010... #gbbo #BakeOff

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Rained all of yesterday and the Internet was crap so I got three books off the TBR pile...

Three books are laid out on a blanket: 'Nightshade' by Anthony Horrowitz, 'No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference' by Greta Thunberg, and Terry Pratchett's 'A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories'.

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Sloppy33 @sloppy87.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Typical, isn’t it? You wait 14 years for a Labour Government and then none come along all at once.

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare] You can no longer be a Labour MP [sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction] Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

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Daniel Cockling @danielcockling.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Lighthearted reading for a Sunday afternoon about global pollution

'Adrift: The Curious Tale of T
the Lego Lost at Sea' by Tracey Williams

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

UK PEOPLE: If you start watching Threads at 2.12pm, the bomb will go off at the same time as the Emergency Text alert.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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