Jonathan Petrie

Born a Portsmuthian. Longtime building & landscape designer + CADmonkey #Greenbuild #Architecture #Art #PeoplesRepublicofPortseaIsland Now #LakeDistrict postie.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were murdered by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening episode of the classic ITV documentary series World at War.

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@Pompey Lassana Diarra. What a player he was for us (and that FA cup run to win it)...then a few months later we sold him to Real Madrid :D

[PompeyHistorySociety @PompeyHistory]

🎶 When Sol Went Up…

🏆 #OnThisDay 2008

#Pompey #PompeyHistory

[Ben Mayne @BattlefieldBen]

Just heading off to visit Oradour-sur-Glane for the first time, a location I have wanted to visit for a long time.

‘Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France.’

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@michaelastracha @ChrisGPackham A very special partnership as educators and as promoters of our UK wildlife. Gifted to us and now always part of our culture. Long may it continue! Love & peace to you both x [my photo of Red Kite over fells, nr Kendal]

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@PompeyPedro :D \o/\o/\o/ PUP!

[Paris-Roubaix Hauts-de-France @parisroubaix]

🚩The peloton leaves Compiègne, Paris-Roubaix 2026 is underway!

🚩Le peloton s’élance de Compiègne. C’est parti pour #ParisRoubaix 2026 !

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@Pompey VAMOS! \o/ PUP!

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@Pompey PUP!!!! \o/

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@Pompey Get in!!!!! PUP \o/\o/\o/

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@PompeyPedro High brow= landscaped park outdoor space with permanent amphitheatre seating (for small music venue/display/theatre), with waterbus/taxi stop. Otherwise (as mentioned) a massive 'Colossus of Rhodes' Terry Devlin Statue....PUP :D

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

It's nearly Candlemas, traditionally the very end of the Christmas season, which joins a last look back to midwinter with the first glimmer of spring. Time for a few more medieval carols: https://t.co/21dRZ4hjSc

'Tidings, tidings that be true:
Sorrow is past and joy doth renew.'

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'Ða easternan tungelwitegan gesawon niwne steorran beorhtne, angenga betwux heofenum and eorðan.'

'The eastern astronomers saw a new bright star, a lone wanderer between heaven and earth.'

An Anglo-Saxon sermon for the feast of the Epiphany: https://t.co/n6pFYATOvl

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'Though men be merry in mind when they have much drunk,
A year runs full swift, and yields never the same again;
The first part and the finish fit seldom together.'
(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

Yule and the 'young year' in some medieval poems: https://t.co/ypuMKHgDpo

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

@PhotoGhibli Watched it with my daughter last night. Great film x

[WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK @JANUSZCZAK]

This is probably the oldest surviving Nativity. 4th/5th century. Carved in marble and on show in Athens. Note the absence of Mary and Joseph. Just the ox and the ass in attendance. Interesting how priorities change in religions art. I deal with it here. https://t.co/aUU90N0CAS

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Go on, I defy you, tell me that doesn't get to you, of course it does...

[Jonathan Petrie @PETRIEDESIGN]

#RedKite circling, seen looking North towards Ratherheath Lane/fields to Plumgarths, from Cunswick scar yesterday #Kendal @lakedistrictnpa @cumbriawildlife #LakeDistrict #WinterSolstice Kentmere in background. #GrizedaleForest release?@ForestryComm . Seen one near Hugill Fell b4

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Downs in Winter, Eric Ravilious, 1935. A classic view of the Southdowns in East #Sussex (now @sdnpa). The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery.

[James Wright @jpwarchaeology]

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂

Booking available here:
https://t.co/NctfwvKCjg