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This is really interesting. I've just looked and we have 'visited with sickness' a few times in Napier. As most disease is humoral and isn't an external entity that could visit you (or a village etc.), I guess some sort of pestilential disease (treated as a kind of poison) is indeed the implication.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 19h

(Thank you!) I've only recently started seeing beautiful sunsets again here, after months without them.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had a walk over to a large patch of ivy this afternoon to get what's probably a last look at the ivy bees for this year. 📷 #photography

An ivy bee (Colletes hederae), roughly honey-bee shaped but with more pronounced custard-coloured stripes on its abdomen and a furry thorax, on ivy flowers, with out-of-focus green behind and a pale light source in the top right corner.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Downloaded! Will read it this week.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking from Fore Hill to Waterside, Ely. 📷 #photography

A view across a curving T-junction, with a modern building overhanging on the right, towards a row of old sunlit buildings in yellow brick and white render. There is blue in the sky but it is hidden behind rows of greying clouds.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Graveyard, Eglwys Sant Hywyn, Aberdaron. #scape 📷 #photography

View up a hill of rather dried-out grass scattered with gravestones leaning this way and that. At the back is a wall so low against the tall grass that it almost functions as a ha-ha and beyond that modern houses, one white, the others pebbledash, and a telegraph pole with wires hanging across. The sky is blue with a swirl of hazy cloud.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see they're national, though it's a good while since I was last in that one to have spotted that's what it was.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The King's Arms, St Mary's St, Ely

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fantastic. I'll look forward to reading it.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll look forward to them! I had to get a new camera a few months ago when the old one died and it's fun but sometimes frustrating not to have everything exactly where I expect it.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That is magnificently creepy.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've managed to start it off in my house now 🤦‍♂️😂

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Winter evening at the old Bishop's Palace, Ely. #BlueskyArtShow #lights

The Gallery, a street that threads its way between the west end of Ely Cathedral on the left and the old red-brick building on the right that was once the bishop's palace. It is dusk late on a winter's afternoon, with a little light still in the sky but colouring to gold near the horizon and a heavy cloud overhead. There are lights on in the old palace and bare trees are silhouetted against the sky. There are people walking along the pavement and a car's taillights are visible as it turns the corner.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's very kind! Thank you 😊

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I missed some of it, but I dashed out at soon as I realised it was happening...

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight's rather unexpected sunset. 📷 #photography

A sunset of orange-coloured coarse ropes of cloud across a grey-blue sky, with suburban house roofs, a tree and a lamppost all silhouetted in the bottom of the picture.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evening sun between the clouds, Ely. 📷 #photography

The top of a terrace of modern yellow-brick houses with a heavy raincloud above, slightly less heavy cloud further off, and sunlight catching the cloud edge with a little pale grey-blue sky in the gap.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'would bynd his sone by great oppression to pay many legaces [tha]t he is vnwilling to pay & fell out in bad terms'. Though his son does write to Napier on his behalf in 1630

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aha, you're right: he's at Little Brickhill by then. 'raged today like a frentick' and still not getting on with his son.

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