Stephen Diston @grump5.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Amazing photos 🤩. Is that a quern in the middle of the fourth photo? Any idea when the site dates to? 110
Reposted by Stephen Diston Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Brightwell Barrow, from the Oxfordshire Series by Anna Dillon @annadillon.bsky.social This will also be a familiar viewpoint to Paul Nash fans, but I think Anna's version here is far better. More information and prints below; annadillon.com/brightwell.html 3479
Stephen Diston @grump5.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Followed by @lisaknappmusic.bsky.social and @gerrydriver.bsky.social cramming as many songs as they can into the next hour. Most of #Hinterland was squeezed in. There's just something about a live performance that takes the music to a higher level of engagement. 021
Stephen Diston @grump5.bsky.social · 07/02/2026At the inspiring #CecilSharpHouse for a day of folk music. #EllieGowers opened the show, with an hour of beautiful guitar and vocals inspired by her Canadian tour. 100
Reposted by Stephen Diston Confidently Paranoid @niblick-iii.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!rigb.orgWatch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archiveWatch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised. 11188107
Reposted by Stephen Diston David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The Andromeda Galaxy (M31). 30 November 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour 710924
Reposted by Stephen Diston Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/11/2025A stunning late #Roman glass goblet Probably made in Egypt around AD 400 Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk 📷 May 2024 An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂 #FindsFriday #FridayFeeling 717439
Reposted by Stephen Diston P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I don't know if @dieworkwear.bsky.social knows who on earth Morcambe & Wise are (legendary in the UK) but you gotta say those suits are a delight. 031
Stephen Diston @grump5.bsky.social · 12/02/2025So sorry to hear this. My condolences to you and all her family and friends. 010
Reposted by Stephen Diston John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵 532205702
Stephen Diston @grump5.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Aurora visible to the naked eye near Cambridge, as a pale red / purple glow across the northern horizon. An 8 second camera exposure reveals more detail of the structure. First time I've seen this, an amazing sight. 060
Reposted by Stephen Diston Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 26/04/2024Today I was introduced to what was described as the Worst Plot In Exoplanet Science, and frankly, it is a work of art 81964234
