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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The one in the bathroom and the one in the dining room worked in the house I grew up in. There was a similar display of wobbly stars!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fine, thanks! Sorry I never caught up with you in Leeds this summer. Maybe next year!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks for posting about this - I really enjoyed watching it.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's shocking. I dread to think which subjects were deemed more 'relevant': probably better not to ask, for the sake of one's sanity...

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No, it says 'owt', i.e. 'out': the finding out of treasure. They had a lot of fun writing W in those days.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My standard school report was "Could do better if she tried". What always puzzled me was how on earth they were so certain...

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If I'd looked more closely at this business card before Mr Young finished repairing my clock this morning, I'd have lent him my copy of Seb Falk's "The Light Ages" so he could read about his medieval kindred spirit!

Image of an intricate and beautiful modern clock made by Eric Young of Cupar in Fife. The works can be seen, and the clock shows the phase of the moon, day, and date, and the time according to GMT and many other world time zones.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Give them a couple of weeks & they'll work him in somehow!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They seem to have electric lights instead 😂

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The people were brown, but oh boy, the rubbish was colourful in those days!!!!!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

She looks uncannily like the (sadly deceased) actress Rosalie Crutchley.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It looks like this (and her website is on the label):

Picture of embroidery kit based on manuscript image of mice besieging a cat castle.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Tanya Bentham sells a laid and couched work embroidery kit based on this picture, which she calls 'Chateau Chatte'.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We usually make a few pounds of bramble jelly, but today we just picked and ate.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Similar pleasure from brambles today in Scotland. Yum.

View of ripening brambles growing against a stone wall, with ripe grain in a field behind.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's a niddy-noddy, a tool for winding spun wool into a skein.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Left hand picture: my happy place. Right hand picture: who opened the Hellmouth?

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How to jump over a cliff, by Hugo First.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Try your sixties. Let's just say it doesn't improve ...

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

No problem: glad to be of help. It's a useful book.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth & Matia Hayward, 'Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles' (Leiden, 2022), p. 152, confirms 'cotton wool' as "raw cotton; or it could mean cloth made of cotton. Confusingly, it could also be used of a wool cloth with a cottony nap".

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I just got home: I have been suspiciously sniffed, but then graciously washed. Cat forgiveness has been extended.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm not sure if I'll get this or massive feline sulks.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"Lord Savile was no good at musical chairs"

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

They were both clearly one brick short of a load (as the saying goes)!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The thing about childproof lids is that only the young can open them ....

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'm sulking now because The Trial wasn't the novel by Charlotte M Yonge but the one by Kafka. Hmph.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

That's the trouble with working from home. If he'd used Zoom before, he'd have remembered to close his bed curtains.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

As usual, brilliant alt-text!!!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My rough collie was once chased down the beach by two chihuahuas. She was utterly terrified, but it gave a lot of people a very good laugh before I caught up with her to rescue her!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Davros is a regular visitor.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It doesn't look as if it is in its original binding, though, so the modern looking endpaper is probably 19th or 20th century, not 16th.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

What is that curtain hanging on? How will it cover the window nearest the bed?

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

He fell off the cliffs at Kinghorn. Falling off cliffs isn't a great idea, eels or no eels (though eelsily done when things get slippy)!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That's amazing. It also reminds me of something: who here has read The Dark is Rising?

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm so sorry to hear you are in such a tough place x

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Pre-decimalisation British money.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Thank you, that's beautiful.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Postcards I bought but liked too much to send. Cards people sent me I liked so much I kept them. I have a drawer full of things like this (and actual, genuine, real bookmarks) and still end up marking my place with torn up envelopes.

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A sunhat that fits over pinned up hair Blotting paper - nobody seems to sell it now

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

You are clearly the right sort of grandparent!

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Dr Tig Lang @langsj.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A friend of mine (may she be forgiven) introduced me to "God is walking his porpoise out", and when "God is working his purpose out" was one of our hymns the very next Sunday, my daughter and I proved we are not yet old enough to know better.

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