rlcj

rlcj, 13 days ago to Dog

If I may be all ‘#pig in #shit’, & rather egoist (I’m not normally inclined to #toot pictures of myself), but there’s context.

This very #weekend last year I started to suffer symptoms that rendered me, days later, unable to #walk. #GuillainBarreSyndrome ain’t to be messed with. But for those of you currently going downhill fast by this oddity & seeing this, it can be defeated. Keep the faith! I may be holding a staff, but I don’t need it! Follow the #dog’s positivity and #kick GBS.

rlcj, 13 days ago to random

A #Spring love letter from West Malvern for you all today. #Bluebells as far as the eye could see. Glorious. #Rural #England #Countryside #Landscape #Worcestershire #Ancient #Woodland

rlcj, 20 days ago to NorwichCity

I clearly haven’t played #pétanque for a while. These will polish up for this #Summer’s #village #championship with a bit of elbow grease and vinegar. They’d better. There’s a #cup to be won! #Boules.

rlcj, 1 month ago to Greek

Perseus and Andromeda. #Greek #Mythology #Fountain #Sea #Monster #NineteenthCentury

rlcj, 1 month ago to random

Every #day is a #school day. Today I learned that the average #weight of a #British #turd* in the 1860s was 2.784oz. Over the same period an average individual would produce 31.851oz of #urine.** #EnvHist #Sewage #Victorian #NineteenthCentury.

*Might be delivered in more than one visit.
**Almost certainly more than one visit!

rlcj, 2 months ago to uk

To the east of the #hills, in the #morning #light, and away from the afternoon #shadow, #spring is icumen in. Furry grey male catkins turn yellow as they become laden with pollen. #Goat #Pussy #Willow #UK

rlcj, 2 months ago to music

What a #discovery! Quelle #découverte! Noir Désir, Le vent nous portera. #Music #Video #Musique #Clip. Magnifique. Reminds me of a spectacular time spent with my mother on #Breton beaches back in ‘73 as my father worked in the #archives. Magnifique! Those days ended in the light not the dark! #Brittany

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgcRvBJYBE

rlcj, 2 months ago to random

Up early enough this #morning to climb through the #mist and find the #light. #MalvernHills #Worcestershire #Cloud

rlcj, 3 months ago to architecture

I just love the mish mash of #materials and #building styles that the multi-period #historic towns of provincial #England serve up. There’s joy to be found in the chaos everywhere you look! I’m all for freedom of expression and variety. Although I do draw the line at the crapola allowed by #urban planners in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. #Vernacular #Architecture #Stone #Brick #Timber

rlcj, 3 months ago to journalism

It’s been a mad #centipede #media week. It’s all gone a bit tabloid! But it’s been #fun. Here’s #BBC #radio reporting live from my house!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h6mg40

On a more serious front, the #story has produced new sightings from across #England. If you think you have seen one, do get in contact with me. We are already changing the distribution #map and chronology of this #species. #CitizenScience #Ecology #ClimateChange

rlcj, 3 months ago to music

#Music forms an important part of my new #Environmental #History module. I thought I could share my choices with you too (and ask for more suggestions obvs) each week. So to get us started, what better than Cam Cole. So looking forward to seeing him live in #Bristol in March! #Extinction #Rebellion Bring it on! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwRAjCr_lA

rlcj, 4 months ago to books

Special day #today, so treating myself by #reading this. ‘#Report of the #Judges appointed by the #Royal #Agricultural #Society of #England to adjudicate the Prizes in the #Sewage #Farm #Competition 1879’ #EnvHist

rlcj, 4 months ago to random

Severn Stoke, #Worcestershire post-#flood. Taking my cue from the #FifteenthCentury building, now the #Pub, it seems right to go #BlackAndWhite on these two. First, some #reportage: the pub’s defences. Secondly, a #DoubleExposure of the flooded crops superimposed by the crop flotsam on the #field lane.

Square timber-framed and brick-infilled building, with plastic sheeting and black sand bags.

rlcj, 4 months ago to random

Calling on any myriapodologists out there. Is this Scutigera coleoptrata (House #Centipede)? Photographed last night in my downstairs bathroom. I’m aware they are rare in the UK but sightings are on the rise. Body length approx. 25mm. I need #expert #identification before getting too excited (I’m already excited!). I can’t find any prior record of the #species in #Nottinghamshire. Is this a #First #Sighting? Embarassingly the photo reveals I need to dust more!

rlcj, 4 months ago to random

I was really struck by the effect created by the flow of recent #flood waters around this tiny #stream meander which has combed the bankside vegetation into glorious swirls. #River #Nottinghamshire

rlcj, 4 months ago to random

Another #Lincoln #Cathedral trinity. This time shafts on the #door jambs on the West Front. Second quarter #ThirteenthCentury #Stone #Sculpture. #Medieval #Decoration. Would make good #Christmas #WrappingPaper I reckon!

Left to right. Spirals, floral diamonds and heavy chevrons
Left to right, floral diamonds, spirals on round shafts, floral diamonds on octagonal shaft.

rlcj, 4 months ago to DaftPunk

A #Lincoln #Cathedral trio. #Cloister #Chapter #House #Medieval #Stone #Sculpture

The central pillar of the Chapter House with a cluster of capital heads and ribbed ceiling.
A detail on one of the door jambs on the West Front. Naked Adam and Eve tempted by the snake.

rlcj, 5 months ago to history

My first #principles?

1. Deliver #university #history modules I’d have loved to take
2. Make them #relevant to the #modern #world
3. Make them #beautiful

Let’s roll! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwRAjCr_lA

And if anyone is in any doubt about the answer to the #question then it is a definitive NO! #Historians have got so much to offer in charting a way forward for humanity. #EnvHist #Famine #Anthropocene #Deforestation #Soil #Erosion #Biodiversity #Loss #Pollution #Floods #FossilFuels

rlcj, 6 months ago to Futurology

Been quietly working on a book idea hence my recent silence: current title ‘Sodden Earth and Soiled Water: an Environmental History of Virtuous Cycles and Vicious Half Circles’. It’s an elemental story that tells the story of the interaction of earth, water, & agriculture over the last five centuries. I mention it here so it becomes real & I actually write it! You’re the first to know of this. I shall post chapter synopses when they are written. #EnvHist #Earth #Water #Farming #Agriculture

rlcj, 7 months ago to DaftPunk

Bugger, #Covid in the #house! If this goes south, expect more crap #experiments with already captured bad #photography. In the meantime, endure bad #photos from this #weekend. Durbridge Mill, #Gloucestershire

rlcj, 7 months ago to random

No messing today. Just out and about in the upper Leadon valley. Four hours of the finest #Gloucestershire #landscape all to ourselves. Didn’t meet another soul! #GreenTherapy

rlcj, 7 months ago to manchester

Whilst about other things today, I came across the curious attempt by the #Manchester Corporation to dump all its #shit (OK ‘nightsoil’) in #Nottinghamshire. This was late 1892. Equally intrigued by the counter-arguments raised. Trent-side residents raised a stink obvs (before the real stink arrived) and #Trent #anglers were vocal in their support. They won the day. Concerns about #river #pollution aren’t new. The indomitable Feargal Sharkey follows solid footsteps. STOP POLLUTING OUR #RIVERS!