Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Inspired by @stpguy3.bsky.social , I attempted my own sticky toffee pudding as a Sunday night treat. Served without custard or ice cream today, but with buckets of sauce 050
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025So much going on here! Skyscrapers and steam locos—Platelayers in moleskin jackets next to live and "live" lines—Light signals and 80-year old head codes! 081
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Cruising the zero-waste shop (all the customers are gay boys) 190
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Happy VE Day. May you kiss every soldier, sailor and airman you meet! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 170
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025“there are 2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5 per cent of the adult population. … twice as many landlords as NHS employees, four times the number of teachers, … Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJack Shenker · Renters v. RentiersHousing injustice, unlike most of the social ills afflicting our atomised society, has the potential to unite and... 060
Reposted by FergusMark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 15/11/2024It’s 30 years since the 1st public passenger trains ran through the Channel Tunnel. Let’s turn back the clock to the late 80s and remember the optimism, particularly from British Rail at the time, of freight & passenger services connecting from right across Britain. A BR newspaper advert from 1989 44012
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Do the police have a special duty to act where there is a known danger? The Supreme Court says no. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...lrb.co.uk 110
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 07/06/2024And yonder dome, is not a dome at all — but painted in the semblance of a dome. #Betjeman 120
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 15/01/2024"Let those who noticed faults in the first edition know that they alone are answerable if those faults are repeated in the second." 030
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 02/01/2024“What little predictions can we make about a boy at ease with opera stars and celestial bodies?” — Wayne Koestenbaum “The Queen’s Throat” 030
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 02/01/2024Logeion iOS app update! New dictionaries on your iPhone! (@logeiongklat.bsky.social) 1138
Reposted by FergusMark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2023How did the ability to write help David Webber, a 17th century Somerset thatcher, find out who was stealing his hay? Find out in my new blog post (and article) on rural literacy: manyheadedmonster.com/2023/11/21/t...manyheadedmonster.comThe Rabble that Can Write: Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550-1700Mark Hailwood I have often said that writing a blog post can be a good way to disseminate research findings or ideas that you don’t think would sustain a whole article. But sometimes a blog post can... 0103
Reposted by FergusMartn @biggs.bsky.social · 03/11/2023I've already bought all the footy poppies for MAXIMUM RESPECT 3142
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 30/10/2023“Preces priuatae has a careful and slightly defensive preface, stressing that such a volume is not intended for those who do not know Latin well, or might thereby end up reciting prayers they don’t understand, for the sound alone (the implication here is, “like Catholics”).” 121
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 18/10/2023www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc...theguardian.comRock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed review – Hollywood beefcake reassessedDocumentary casts the movie star as a painful figure who inspired a new dialogue about Aids, but doesn’t do much to examine his Republican politics 020
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2023We learn in Strange New Worlds that Vulcans take nasal suppressants to deal with the smell of humans — but do humans ever do anything for other Federation species? 130
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Via Gregory Crane on Twitter: Aeschylus with scansion, English word order, "English stress" and literal translation and notes. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nj... 130
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2023www.cityam.com/the-x-files-... @jacquesderridad.bsky.socialcityam.comThe X-Files at 30: What I learned from rewatching every episode - CityAMThe X-Files turns 30 this week: With more than 230 hours worth of material, Steve Dinneen dived back in to Mulder and Scully's world 010
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 06/09/2023"the Wagner Group is more an American problem than a German one. The cult of violence, the appeal to young-male rage and bloodlust, ... —Hollywood has been injecting all of this into the global id for the better part of a century." www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...newyorker.comDeciphering the Wagner Group’s Love for WagnerNazism influenced the mercenary group’s twisted aesthetics, but so did Wagnerian Hollywood spectacle. 100
Fergus @ferguswalsh.bsky.social · 03/09/2023Acquired today a copy of Cardinal Bacci’s “Italian-Latin dictionary of modern terms that are hard to express in Latin” 020
