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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sorry - I think Albie Fiore was a great writer, but this is a bad ‘3 bugbears live two doors down from 6 kobolds’ scenarios. As a setting - it’s exquisite. In the middle is the C 02 wizard mini I used for Thane in the scenario (not to scale with the map)

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I love seasons, but I’m sick of the cold now. Just come across a tiny clump of Marsh Celandine - spring must be coming #FuckYouWinterMarshCelandineIsHere

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Looks like your ancestors let you down on the bright colours front I’m afraid

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

First open mic of the year. Played the Hand and Heart in Nottingham (it has caves) with some of the usual Emma Bladon Jones gang. I only head butted the mic stand once, so by my standards, a win.

Man with guitar explaining that the next two songs he’s going to play are written by him.

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I have a new theory about why Trump is interested in Greenland #InspiredByBiscuits

It’s a visual joke about a polar bear on the front of a packet of biscuits looking a bit like a certain President. I mean, it’s not that funny in the first place, but now I have to explain it - well you’re not missing much.

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I’ve finally caught Covid (possibly for the first time - look at me being fashionably late). It’s passed through and I waved it off with a walk in the Upper Dove valley yesterday. I couldn’t get the sunset from the valley bottom, but caught this on the way home

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Dave you know you are one of my favourite human beings, but, ahem

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

It’s taken a few years, but this afternoon I climbed the last of the 95 most significant hills in the Peak District (Ethels) with some important friends. Thank you.

Group of friends standing atop High Stones in the Peak District

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I think we need to be a bit careful here. No doubt he’s talking bollocks for an audience, but HE already carries out a wide range of roles (research is only part of the mix). Nobody objects when we train doctors, teachers etc. The text below is from the Robbins Report (1963) #NotAllOxbridge

The report also concluded that university places "should be available to all who were qualified for them by ability and attainment" (the so-called Robbins principle) and that such institutions should have four main "objectives essential to any properly balanced system: instruction in skills; the promotion of the general powers of the mind so as to produce not mere specialists but rather cultivated men and women; to maintain research in balance with teaching, since teaching should not be separated from the advancement of learning and the search for truth; and to transmit a common culture and common standards of citizenship."

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

After a fortnight with a cold, I’ve got out and done a decent walk in DH Lawrence country. It’s a good lift (even if my legs are a bit sore)

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

You’d have lined up that vitruvian man sign right wouldn’t you?

Just an off-centre sign at Brussels midi station

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I see your currywurst and raise you Belgian frites.

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Passive/aggressive signs in the wild - an occasional series. Sighted at the Eurostar terminal, Brussels

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Running a workshop at #EFYE 2025 - I’ve used up all the oxygen in the room already. Oops.

CO2 monitor is on orange. Emergency open a window time

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I love #KULeuven our venue for #EFYE2025. I’m perpetually fascinated by signs in University settings as manifestations of rules and expectations. “… do not leave early” 😂

KU Leuven sign explaining expectations on students.

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I stepped up to help @wcarey.bsky.social with the #EFYE2025 welcome workshop for new delegates as unfortunately @dianen.bsky.social couldn’t quite make it. It was a great session and reminded me what I really enjoy about the First Year Experience theory and communities of practice

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#efye2025 If you find this sign you are almost at registration. It takes place in the building behind the sign, but you’ll need to turn right and walk around the corner to get to it.

One entrance to KU Leuven Social Sciences

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Made it to Leuven #efye2025 It’s raining. 😂

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Periodical ‘thank goodness for the NHS’ post In all day for a rituxamab infusion, just at the point where the antihistamine gloriously wipes me out

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I took a walk in the dark last night across the fields behind my home town. Occasionally I come across a herd of deer; this is the first time I’ve met them in the snow.

Herd of deer in the snow in the dark, lit up slightly by the motorway lights.

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Ed Foster @edfoster.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

One of the best things about living in Nottingham is the annual Hockley Hustle: 400 bands playing across the city today. Noise were brilliant this afternoon

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