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@pnwnet.bsky.social
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"Building bridges of connection through technology and education" Be it a game board or a technology product, we are interested in connecting the individual to their community, self, nature, ancestors and wellbeing.

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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Storymaking should be consistent across everything, so if the UK wants to reflect strength against opponents like Russia and Argentina, cancelling military exercises to save money is going to have an opposite effect and portray weakness and a likely outcome of attacks on the UK.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A lot of greedy people who were seduced by the AI hype have got burnt on the SpaceX share investment. SpaceX came to market at $135, reached a high of $225, and now is $115. The reality that SpaceX was trading at a loss, was reliant on US government money, and trades on hype was ignored.
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Hype Party
ALT: Hype Party
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The problem with cryptocurrency is you do not know if it is the proceeds of crime, money laundering or even stolen from victims. I would never accept any transaction involving cryptocurrency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote
They think democracy has run its course - so they're setting up their own nations instead.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I think the USA should not have to waste money on stationing troops in the UK, and Britaiin is a military power that does not need them. Win-win for everyone if the US military withdrew from the UK. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
independent.co.uk
Denmark vows to ‘defend every inch’ of Greenland after Trump threatens to take it
US leader has threatened to pull troops from Europe if his demands are not met
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As the dispute between writers and AI continue over copyright, here is a ruling in ancient Irish law on a copyright dispute: "To every cow its calf, and to every book its copy." A matter that was settled in 561 CE. See attached.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is my short video comment via YouTube about the Bluesky app, stalkers and the Bluesky failings in moderation when reports are made to them by users. AT Protocol developers should focus on local not global users. www.youtube.com/shorts/lO21f... #bluesky #ATProtocol
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Comment about the Bluesky app. On moderation of content, and the need to focus on local not global.
YouTube video by PNW2024
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Our city of Colchester was noted for being forced to build a temple to a Roman invader called Emperor Claudius. Quite possibly the people of Colchester continued to worship Claudius for 200 years. If President Trump has a deluson of godhood, Colchester could be a place to invade. Image: BBC
A 3d construction of the Temple of Claudius in Colchester showing the temple, a statue of victory to the front, an open space and an arcade around the the open space.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Summer Solstice 2026 with our Aquila game boards ready to play after Maypole dancing.
Two wooden game boatds with glass counters sit on a table. People in the distance dance around a maypole.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Tourists and five years of heat-drought resulted in the death of a 1200-year-old oak tree associated with Robin Hood in the UK. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/s...
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Ancient Sherwood Forest oak tree reputed to have sheltered Robin Hood has died | CNN
Scientists believe the 1,200-year-old Major Oak, the legendary hideout of Robin Hood, has died after it failed to produce any new leaves this spring,
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
When a Roman emperor such as Hadrian celebrated their birthday, lots of gladiator contests were organised, including beast hunts at places like the Colchester Roman Circus. Donald Trump UFC contests on his 80th birthday reminds me of this Roman emperor trend. followinghadrian.com/2019/01/24/2...
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24 January AD 119 – Hadrian celebrates his 43rd birthday in Rome with gladiatorial games (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
On 24 January AD 119, Hadrian celebrated his 43rd birthday in Rome, the first he spent in the capital as emperor. The emperor put on a gladiatorial show lasting six consecutive days to mark the occ…
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We welcome the proposed social media ban for under 16's in the UK. About time. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
Some feel it is a concrete step to protect children, but others argue it is ‘trying to fix the symptoms and not the disease’
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The newly merged SpaceX is actually making losses despite the valuation. At some point that company is going to crash causing a lot of carnage. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut
Musk is now worth $1.11tn according to the Bloomberg rich list, while SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Watching legal cases against the legacy social media platforms such as Meta in the USA closely, as this is going to have a massive impact on social media in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Social media on trial: Four important cases to watch
Social media firms face thousands of lawsuits, the BBC looks at four which could be significant.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
With debt and costs rising in AI businesses, and most of the industries using AI tools starting to scale back investment in AI, there is a huge risk of a Dotcom bubble emerging. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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SpaceX IPO: how can I buy shares, and what are the risks?
Elon Musk firm plans the biggest stock market launch in history – but experts have flagged potential downsides
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Starbucks has fully embraced AI in their marketing, but made the mistake of excluding humans in the decision-making process, resulting in a spectacular public disaster in South Korea. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Starbucks Korea reveals series of mishaps leading to 'Tank Day' campaign
Starbucks Korea revealed on Tuesday a series of mishaps leading to its heavily criticised "Tank Day" promotion, including the use of AI to develop the campaign, which it said lacked "social and histor...
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bluesky could get a boost as ABC News has decided to post more news content to Bluesky rather than to X. tvtonight.com.au/2026/06/abc-...
tvtonight.com.au
ABC defends decision to post more news on BlueSky than X | TV Tonight
Questions asked over news posting to 7.9k followers on BlueSky versus 2.6m followers on X.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A recent Roman ring find in the UK confirms yet again that ancient Roman chariots are not the heavy things seen in Ben-Hur but are small light chariots. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Somerset detectorist strikes gold with ‘spectacular’ Roman ring find
Kevin Minto’s discovery near Ilminster, showing goddess Victoria, has been acquired with coin hoard for £78,000
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I left it a bit late to prune a bush, resulting in what might be a lot of leaf cutter bees creating nests there. I decided to leave them alone.
Bee lands on a green leaf where they built a nest.A bee lands on a folded green leaf in which they built a nest.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We do not support this sale as it is located at the heart of Iron Age Camulodunum, seat of the first recognised kings of Britain including Cunobelin. www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2614655...
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Colchester Council puts 160 acres of land on sale for more than £1.5 million
Colchester Council has put the 160 acres it owns of Cymbeline Farm land up on Rightmove for £1,550,000.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The modern Aquila game board has been photographed with the replica that is displayed in Colchester Castle Museum. Photo by Barbara Butler.
A person holds up a wooden game board with white and dark-blue glass counters laid out ready to play. Some of the counters have been moved on the board. In the background is a museum display of a grave. A similar game board is in the display along with pottery and Amphora.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This tree was grown from an acorn in 2014 by me. It was the strongest and largest of the twelve oak saplings I grew in pots, and was named after the Iceni queen who burnt Colchester down. Seems happy at the final location it was moved to.
An oak sapling showing the first green of the new year. The tree is in front of a crowd of different trees and shrubs. Grass grows in front and around the oak.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How many people look up and around them when they go about their lives? The natural wonders and events going on around which so many are blind to? Yesterday, I looked to the 930pm sky and saw the moon, Venus and Mercury just after the sun went down. I was leaving Lidl with shopping at the time.
A blue night sky with a crescent moon, Venus below and Mercury further to the right in the image. The black outlins of trees and houses below.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Colchester Roman Circus hosted a talk on the SAS recently, the elite troops of the British Army, who during the 1940's had their 2nd regiment based in Colchester. The exploits of this SAS regiment and their parachuting SAS dog Rob is in this pdf: www.wivenhoehouse.co.uk/wp-content/u...
wivenhoehouse.co.uk
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We plan to remember the late Barbara Butler who was a great fan and promoter of our Aquila game. We think an annual prize for the winner of an Aquila playing competition in her name, the Barbara Butler prize, could be one way to celebrate this lady. Barbara lived in Colchester and died in Dec 2025.
A lady in a blue coat smiles directly at the camera as she is sat down outside at a blue table. A red paper drinking cup is next to her on the table.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Colchester Roman Circus has an exhibition dedicated to the "Lexden lady", a Roman whose decorated coffin was found this year in Colchester in the biggest find of 2026 so far. People can also play Aquila whilst there as a game board is at the venue. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Roman woman's remains found during Colchester hospital dig
The lead coffin found in Colchester contains the remains of a high-status woman, experts say.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Local community leaders hopefully will do their homework in how data centers can impact local businesses and vulnerable low-income families via spikes in prices in energy and water bills in a supply-demand economy. www.techticia.com/2026/05/sili...
techticia.com
Silicon Valley’s Vacationland Needs A New Energy Provider Just As AI Is Driving Prices Up
AI energy crunch threatens Lake Tahoe as rising data center demand pushes electricity prices higher across the West.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Our game of Aquila arguably is the same one as the mystery game of Gwyddbwyll that appears in King Arthur legends in Wales. Talking of Arthur, the corvids known as Choughs, said to embody the spirit of Arthur, have returned to Tintagel Castle in Cornwall. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Choughs reappear at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall after decades of absence
King Arthur is said to have transformed into a chough when he died, its red feet and beak representing his bloody end
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Signals in Colchester, which teaches multimedia skills to students, hopefully will be helping us with doing a video about our Aquila game. We are helping them with some marketing today. signals.org.uk
signals.org.uk
Homepage - Signals
Creative Digital Learning
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We have a travel version of Aquila. A serving Major of the Colchester-based Parachute Regiment always takes the travel version of the Aquila game around the world to play, reflecting what Roman soldiers did as well.
On a brown table is a white canvas bag with the Roman image of an eagle in red and yellow. The word AQUILA is in the eagle image. Above the bag is a box with red velvet inside and a sticker on the inside lid with the same logo as on the white canvas bag. Above the box at the top of the image is a red cloth with yellow lines in a 12 by 8 grid of squares. On the cloth are blue and white glass playing counters: 12 small white, 1 large white, 12 small blue and 1 large blue counter. The counters are in their starting poistions ready to play a game.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I also use Perl 5 as the computer language to code in for my business systems, including my accounts systems. Perl 5 is an ancient computer language, a bit like Latin is ancient, but it is stable and has always been useful. www.perl.com/article/my-g...
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My Guilty Perl Obsession
Perl came for free. How much have I contributed in return? Absolutely nothing.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Wondering if we can borrow a rhino from Colchester Zoo to test an argument that a new glass walkway over a Colchester Roman mosaic can hold the weight of a rhino? www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2565577...
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Glass walkway for Roman mosaic could hold the weight of 'under threat' breed of rhino
A GLASS walkway set to be built to show-off an underground Roman mosaic in Colchester will be able take the equivalent weight of a rare breed of…
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Attached is Straight Road in Colchester UK, a Roman road that ran straight through the middle of a vast Roman camp of the Roman invasion force of Britain as it waited Emperor Claudius to arrive. My interest is sparked by why the road bends marked in yellow. What is the story there?
A satelite map of houses and roads.  A straight road runs top down in the middle of the image, and a bend in the straight road is highlighted in yellow.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In the Roman era, an estate boundary was clearly defined by three Silvani, boundary stones dedicated to the god Silvanus, whio protected the boundaries. Inside the boundary nothing was allowed to go wild, which is why so-called "No Mow May" makes no sense to me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvanu...
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Silvanus (mythology) - Wikipedia
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Benjamin Lay is known in USA as one of the first anti-slavery campaigners who used radical methods of protest. Lay was born near my city of Colchester UK in Copford and was known as the "Quaker Comet." Lay was a friend of Benjamin Franklin when he lived in the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...
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Benjamin Lay - Wikipedia
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Janes Walks festival begins in Colchester UK today, a total of 32 walks that links the individual to their community, nature and history. www.walkcolchester.org.uk/janes-walk
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Walk Colchester | Jane's Walk
An international weekend of local walks led by local people on local themes (‘citizen-led, walking conversations’), taking place in towns and cities around the world, honouring the legacy of the urban...
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Margaret Cavendish of Colchester was the first female science fiction writer in the world, writing her book in the age of witch burning. Her former home was in the grounds of Colchester St Johns Abbey.
A wall with a blue plaque to Margaret Cavendish.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
AI entities that network with each other will create their own socieities and rules like humans according to a study. This comes as no surprise to us, knowing what we do about Complexity Theory. So-called Singularity will come about by accident in this way. www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-arti...
the-independent.com
AI systems start to create their own societies when they are left alone
‘What they do together can’t be reduced to what they do alone’
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
European nations are beginning to look for and build their own technologies to rival the domination of US technology companies, now looking at alternatives to messaging apps like WhatsApp. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
politico.eu
European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp
Governments want to move away from “platforms over which we have no control,” says Dutch minister.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sat in the grounds of this church at Little Tey near Colchester on a warm beautiful day this week. It is a peaceful location.
A church surrounded by gravestones in a graveyard. A path runs to the entrance of the church. There is trees in the background. There is blue sky with a few white clouds. The graveyard is grassed over, which has been recently cut.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If a community has no famous person to promote their place with, a creative approach can go a long way, such as this blue plaque in Marks Tey near Colchester UK.
A blue sign on a house in Marks Tey.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A study has explored how location enhances the formation of memories in the brain. This area is interesting to us as we are looking to create spaces of memory in communities that are a focal point of the stories of the history and culture of that community. news.columbia.edu/news/places-...
news.columbia.edu
The Places We Make Memories Help Us Inscribe Them
Psychology researchers used virtual reality and MRI technology to better understand how locations help us encode memories.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The people at @daartofdub24.bsky.social have decided to cease trading and move on to other projects. I gave lots of admin support to Da Art of Dub, who worked in the genre of Reggae with some well known artists from the 1980's. In the area of music we are now working on a flute event!
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a violin with the words when words fail music speaks
ALT: a violin with the words when words fail music speaks
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It is the greatest tragedy that so many anicent texts and libraries are lost to history, and a small victory to find a lost text. www.rfi.fr/en/culture/2...
rfi.fr
Lost page of legendary Archimedes manuscript found in France
Researchers have discovered a long-lost page from a treatise by Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes in the archives of a French museum.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It has been a well known secret for decades in the cybersercurity industry that technology systems and platforms are full of security holes, since security was never a priority when designing them. Now Mythos AI will expose those holes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model
Experts say Mythos potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It is great to read about a proposal to reintroduce the golden eagle into Britain. Our board game Aquila means "eagle" in Latin. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Golden eagles could be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years
Study identified eight areas that can sustain a population and government has given £1m for recovery programme
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
In Rome a Triumphal Arch was usually bestowed on an emperor by vote of the Senate for a great victory such as that of Emperor Claudius in his successful invasion of Britain. Plans by President Trump for his own Triumphal Arch reminds me of a Roman emperor. www.roman-britain.co.uk/roman-conque...
roman-britain.co.uk
Emperor Claudius' Victory Celebrations
It was the Emperor Claudius who gained the most from the Roman invasion of 43 AD. The increase in his public image was phenomenal. Now having proven himself and been accepted as an Emperor, he decided that this was a reason to have multiple celebrations.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is one of the two replicas of our Aquila game board set out as it was found in the Doctors Grave in Stanway as displayed in the Colchester Castle Museum.
8 metal rings and 8 metal rods are below a wooden game board with glass counters set out ready to play. The glass countets are blue  and white. There are surgcal instruments scattered around and on the game board.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Colchester Janes Walk festival in 2026 happens between 2nd and 10th May 2026 and this year hosts 32 walk events. I am putting out 10,000 leaflets for this festival, but anyone can download a pdf here: www.walkcolchester.org.uk/_files/ugd/c...
walkcolchester.org.uk
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We welcome this ruling that Colchester Institute can get VAT rebate for construction project on their buildings. The UK government really must sort out their tax system to enable public and community educational establishments like Colchester Institute to invest in their facilities.
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Project Night Watch @pnwnet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is the Egyptian child-god Harpocrates, found in Colchester and now on display in Colchester Castle Museum. This find is a clue to an Isis religion in Roman Colchester. A mistaken claim that Harpocrates is a god of secrets because he is often depicted with a finger to lips.
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