You know when you talk to people about how interesting being an archivist is?
No two days the same?
Yeah, well, today involved a dead pigeon and a broken lift.
Sometimes I’d quite like boring and predictable…..
To be fair, he looks like that a lot - resting crestfallen face.
A small scruffy grey dog (a cairn terrier) standing in the hallway of a house. He is wearing a harness, ready for his walk, and is standing hopefully over a bedraggled toy fox.
Ted would have liked to take his toy on our walk, but I think we all know who would’ve ended up carrying the toy….
#TerrierTuesday #CairnTerrier #DogsOfBluesky
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A grey cairn terrier standing on snow-covered ground
Ted loves the snow #whitestuff #terriertuesday
I went to make the boy’s packed lunch this morning to discover we had no bread! Made a good recovery with a wrap.
Contemplating my own packed lunch tomorrow and perked up at the thought of still having Interesting Chutney in the house.
Pickled walnut and ricotta sounds good.
Lovely! We used to have a few visit our garden and i felt so privileged. It’s my one regret about getting a dog that the hedgehogs can’t come anymore.
Gosh, I’d have been tempted to stay at work…
Our old parish priest loved Zulu. He’d watch it with the volume on very loud. His house adjoined the church. It was great to pop in for a quiet pray and end up listening to Zulu. A very fond memory.
The Daisy books by Kes Gray???
To be fair, I later had a boy and quickly became bored of beige!
A scruffy grey cairn terrier curled up on a sofa with a toy squirrel.
Those pesky real squirrels remain at large, so Ted’s curled up with his toy squirrel. #TerrierTuesday #CairnTerrier
At least it’s not pink. I ended up buying boys’ clothes for my daughter, so desperate did I become to avoid pink. But that collar though….
We got it last Christmas and I must confess it didn’t captivate us on our first play, and we haven’t felt inclined to try again. Perhaps we’ll give it another go this week.
A photograph taken in the evening showing a Christmas light display over Deansgate in Manchester. It reads Bee Merry Manchester, and includes a bee, the emblem of Manchester.
Christmas greetings from Manchester.
We were in town to see Singin’ in the Rain at the Royal Exchange, it was brilliant. (I’m even refraining from any Manchester/rain jokes).
A photograph of a page from the Sunday Times showing an article about the archives of Barclays Bank.
Huge thanks to my colleagues in Comms and @meghbaynes.bsky.social for this in today’s Sunday Times.
I can’t even say there would be anything in particular, we never made a big deal about explaining stuff to ours but we were careful to be honest. Besides that, what sort of kids cross-examine an adult about his personal life?
A Christmas card bearing a design from 1931. It features a Christmas tree and the wording ‘A Merry Christmas’.
The back of a Christmas card telling us the design is by Margaret Calkin James and from the Transport for London archives.
Love a vintage card and this one from the TFL archives is gorgeous
I’m curious - is it possible that the material done over 20 years ago will need doing again because the technology has moved on so much?
A white 4 inch square Christmas cake on a round silver board. The cake is decorated with a figure of The Snowman from the Raymond Briggs cartoon - he has 3 black coal buttons, a satsuma nose, and a green hat and scarf. There is a green ribbon with gold animals on it going round the bottom of the cake.
Ten cupcakes in dark paper cases. They are decorated with swirly white buttercream and a small Christmas tree made from green fondant icing, decorated with gold and silver balls and a silver star.
Productive day
No way!
A photo from 1991 of seven 18 year old girls posing on a bandstand in a park.
You might think you’re cool, but are you as cool as my friends and me, aged 18, posing in the town bandstand?
(We were as far from cool as it’s possible to be, but I love this photo)
One of the Young People jokingly asked if we could play board games or watch a film in the office this week and I strongly suspect they were only half joking….
Really neat example of how everything about an object—binding, foxing, water damage, annotations—can help us understand it.
Good luck!
The local news here in the north west did some vox pops with Liverpool fans and they were all relentlessly unsympathetic to Salah.
A screenshot from Spotify featuring a funky black and white pattern and a cartoon sun with text that says: Your role Archivist. Your listening delves back into past eras, ensuring club history never fades.
In what I can only describe as an hilarious turn of events, Spotify Unwrapped has classified me as an archivist
That sounds perfect. Well done.
We’ve just been to see Stage Fright. So so good! Possibly the best thing I’ve seen in a theatre. Don’t think I’ll be able to sleep for hours, I’m too giddy!
My 14yo’s Fortnite account has been stolen by a Russian. Fortnite’s makers, Epic Games don’t seem to think this is something they might be at least partly responsible for. When will we start to see ‘scams’ etc for what they are, crimes?
