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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Did a bit more research - apparently there were sumptuary laws controlling what you could serve depending on status. Cardinals were allowed to serve up to 9 dishes per meal vs 7 for dukes. Potatoes would have been classed as peasant food. And this little snippet about another cardinal of the time:

“In 1527, Cardinal Wolsey served a superlative feast for the French embassy, including subtleties of castles, of the church and spire of St Paul’s, of “beasts, birds, fowls of diverse kinds, personages… some fighting… some leaping… some dancing”, and a whole chess set of sugar paste, which the French delighted in so much it was boxed up and sent home with them.”

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not a bad steak night, now to pass out by the fire with a glass of red

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Father and son tank geek-out day whilst Mrs W sleeps off a well-deserved hangover

Selfie in front of a T-34 at Bovington tank museum

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Morning sky being needlessly dramatic

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well, that’s the dining room done. Just over a month end to end - quickest room so far. Still hate the white uPVC windows but that’ll have to wait.

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Really OneDrive? You couldn’t put an `if` clause around this date?

Screenshot of a notification from OneDrive labelled “September 11! Today over the years. See what made this day special over time.”

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

27 years in this town and it’s the first time I’ve sat on the beds in this establishment #York

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oooh nice! I found a bunch of plastic ones we can just bury - I hate our patio anyway so it’s a good excuse to dig it up and lay some better stone

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At least someone at Microsoft still has a sense of humour

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“This window trim is loose, I wonder…” Later: “Hello daylight my old friend.”

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And they say there are no more heroes…

The Celegraph
German bus driver kicked
Semtex drone out of the air
'Daring and courageous airport worker may have stopped suspected Russian terror attack

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Not technically a skull, but this was a doodle that ended up as my mum’s work screensaver

Digital painting of an emaciated figure screaming with a large iron spike through its head

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s still there, closer today 😂

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Last evening in Porthleven for this holiday! Next year in Scotland!

Photo of Porthleven harbour looking out to the clock tower, on a sunny evening at high tide

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Johann apparently - anchored off Mounts Bay www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/deta...

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Going to be sad when this holiday is over…

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

First home-grown salad of the year!

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Work trips have to have some perks

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Chicken curry with dates and toasted almonds. Very full now but will happily take on any American food discoursers.

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ah, well you want my wife for Yorkshire puds! Never seen stargazer pie on any menus, thankfully ;)

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Fair point. I’m coming at as an engineering manager who used to get 3 or 4 of these per week which the client rarely cared about. Too hot to say more, but here’s a boat in Argostoli for @dreadships.bsky.social

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Holiday kitty scavenging food at breakfast

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The only kind of Mythos I want to hear about on holiday

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

So the result of making a mess yesterday was a tip run today, sat in a car reeking of old person bathroom carpet

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

At least the lilacs are in bloom! (Actually, everything’s looking good this year thanks to the rains - last year it was a desert and even the Alchemilla Mollis struggled)

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Mistakes were made. Send for my elasticated pantaloons.

An unwise choice of bbq given how full I now feel

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Love this time of year for the colours of Pieris Japonicus

Pieris Japonicus, photographed up close with pink leaves and white flowers

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I have a clematis to tie up and a couple of things to plant. After that I shall mostly be sitting outside in the pursuit of doing absolute FA.

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Anyone know what this is? Large shrub, deciduous, big flowers in early summer. Smells gorgeous. My phone thinks it’s a viburnum

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Not sure if we’ll get another year out of this greenhouse. Half the wood is rotted, it’s already been patched (we keep digging up glass from where the original roof evidently shattered many years ago), and the base is bent from old trees. Maybe I need to learn carpentry…

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

💯 Especially when it’s clotted with years of old roots. Just clearing this patch was a day’s work!

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Golden Guineas looking exceptional this spring

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

And what did we learn about not tinkering with clocks?

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Today’s efforts! Fork seems to work but this ground hasn’t been dug over since we moved in so it’s thick with roots

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

And I make that time for margaritas

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Solid progress on the garden with Mrs W. Thinning out the ranks of dense conifers to let more light in. Son is over at his mate’s house so I’d say that makes it beer o’clock

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