Otherworld

A couple of days ago I travelled in to work in the same tube carriage as a woman with a dandelion clock head. She’d taken steps to disguise it by wearing an Alice band, but it didn’t really work. Pushed back under the band, her hair simply exploded out the back in a huge grey, gravity defying cloud. The woman was in late middle age and may have been descended from a family of friendly gnomes. She was only little and would not have looked out of placer sitting on a toadstool fishing.

As it was, wire glasses perched on her beaky nose amid her little round face, she was leaning forward attentively reading The Ascent of Man. I’m sure there is a lesson here somewhere, though I cannot grasp it myself.

The Met Office reports a lower than usual (for the time of year) incidence of reality weavers in South East England this week.

Otherworld

A couple of days ago I travelled in to work in the same tube carriage as a woman with a dandelion clock head. She’d taken steps to disguise it by wearing an Alice band, but it didn’t really work. Pushed back under the band, her hair simply exploded out the back in a huge grey, gravity defying cloud. The woman was in late middle age and may have been descended from a family of friendly gnomes. She was only little and would not have looked out of placer sitting on a toadstool fishing.

As it was, wire glasses perched on her beaky nose amid her little round face, she was leaning forward attentively reading The Ascent of Man. I’m sure there is a lesson here somewhere, though I cannot grasp it myself.

The Met Office reports a lower than usual (for the time of year) incidence of reality weavers in South East England this week.

THRON!

I have just received an email informing me that THRON is following me on Twitter.

THRON is both German and commercial, trying to sell something. Not understanding German and not being interested in Twitter-borne commercialism, I shall not be adding THRON back.

And yet, I cannot bring myself to block someone with such a fine name...

THRON!

I have just received an email informing me that THRON is following me on Twitter.

THRON is both German and commercial, trying to sell something. Not understanding German and not being interested in Twitter-borne commercialism, I shall not be adding THRON back.

And yet, I cannot bring myself to block someone with such a fine name...

Sutton who?

It’s rare that my interest in early English history is rekindled by a news website, in fact I’d go so far as to say it’s never happened before. But today we have the once in a century report of a discovery that may lead to hefty revisions to the history books akin to those that followed the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939.

The largest ever Anglo-Saxon hoard has been found by a bloke with a metal detector in an undisclosed location in Staffordshire. The value of the 1,500 or so pieces of gold and silver found dwarfs the Sutton Hoo find and may possibly be valued in seven figures.

Archaeologists have described it as like finding the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels for the first time.

I hope that a revision to Sir Frank Stenton’s history comes out while I am still young enough to read it. Having worked for a couple of years at English Heritage in the mid 1980s, I rather doubt it…

Sutton who?

It’s rare that my interest in early English history is rekindled by a news website, in fact I’d go so far as to say it’s never happened before. But today we have the once in a century report of a discovery that may lead to hefty revisions to the history books akin to those that followed the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939.

The largest ever Anglo-Saxon hoard has been found by a bloke with a metal detector in an undisclosed location in Staffordshire. The value of the 1,500 or so pieces of gold and silver found dwarfs the Sutton Hoo find and may possibly be valued in seven figures.

Archaeologists have described it as like finding the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels for the first time.

I hope that a revision to Sir Frank Stenton’s history comes out while I am still young enough to read it. Having worked for a couple of years at English Heritage in the mid 1980s, I rather doubt it…