Sheenagh

personal views only: largely snark, Ooh A Bit Political and My Child Did A Funny. Maintaining a Wry And Sideways Look.

[Archaeo Store @ArchaeoStore]

Minoan Octopus

https://t.co/Akt5iwUg1M

This design is inspired by an ancient Minoan vase. This vase, found at Palaikastro, a wealthy site on the far eastern coast of Crete, is the perfect example of elite Minoan ceramic manufacture.

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

There's something very amusing about imagining 1 John in this way:

Darlings, I am writing you no new commandment

Darlings, we are God's children now

Darlings, if our heart does not condemn us

Darlings, do not believe every spirit

Darlings, let us love one another

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Lurs from Bronze Age Denmark some 3,000 years ago

Thirty-nine of these cast bronze horns have been found in Danish peat bogs, likely deposited as ritual offerings.

Fun fact: Lurs are the inspiration behind the name and logo of Denmark’s Lurpak® butter! 🧈 🎺 🇩🇰

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

[Sheenagh @mellowdramatic]

Corn-haired child disappears into the reed bed.

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

Wind in the Willows, back home

[Dr Brian of London 🇮🇱 @brianoflondon]

Egypt occupied Gaza from 1949 to 1967. Never created Palestine. Kept the residents in squalid refugee camps. Built almost nothing except a giant wall to keep them out of Egypt.

[Jem Bloomfield @jembloomfield]

Why does Christie begin Evil Under the Sun in the eighteenth century, with a man who died peacefully? I investigate...

[Paul Heron @Paul_Heron_]

Wondering whether Zippy was born with that zip, or whether it was surgically attached when his obnoxiousness revealed itself.

[Ghost of Hellas @ghostofhellas]

The Theatre of Dionysus, Athens.

[Ruth Dixon @ruth_dixon]

Love this mosaic plant (Ludwigia sedioides) in Oxford botanic garden

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, is the only metro system in the world whose maps and stations have signage in the old Mongol script (the vertical looking characters).

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

My heart melted overhearing my 5 year-old and 2.5 year-old sweetly talking in the backseat of the car, encouraging one another and saying “Can you help me, Alice?” and “You can do it! Look! We can do it together!”

It was then I realized they were unbuckling each other.

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Some stats: There are 99 players at this World Cup born in France. Of those, 76 are not playing for France

(That's not just a football story. It's a history lesson) 2/5

[Sheenagh @mellowdramatic]

HARRY’S
Horck (because of his expert hover then strike)
Amaazing
Radd (but the 7yo is literally already a fellow kid?!)
Rizileent (=resilient)
Yahoomazing (stealing this one)
Selibraishen

[Sheenagh @mellowdramatic]

New hero here tonight for the 7yo

[Sheenagh @mellowdramatic]

A little less vibes ‘n’ values & a little more spelling wouldn’t go amiss. (Translation of this acrostic follows below…)

[John Lewis-Stempel @JLewisStempel]

Shock: Writer suggests book by another writer, but Sally Coulthard’s book on Twilight does that thing that only really good books do: Makes you see the familiar anew, and want to know more. It’s the sort of sympathetic and subtle nature writing needed.