Liz Wood

That looks great, and thanks for going through and doing the translation.

...Francis Kinge of Bovingdon, Herts, yeoman, took on property in Upper Gibbs Crofte, Chesham, Bucks. It had previously been surrendered into the hands of John Belfeild, gent, and Jone Gate, customary tenants of the manor, by John Gregory of Leyhill, Bucks, blacksmith, on 20 Sep 1676.

You might want to get someone else to check this as it's about 20 years since I last worked with manorial deeds and I lost the thread at least once, but I think that the gist is: at the Court Baron of the Manor of Isenhampstead Latimers (Lord of Manor: William, Earl of Devon) on 11 Dec 1679...

Definitely Latin. It's a manorial court deed transferring property. My Latin's fairly rusty but I can have a go if a medievalist doesn't pick it up.

Photo of whiteboard headed 'What have you seen or heard in the Arboretum February', including sightings of rain, more rain, sparrowhawk, hare, woodpecker, sausage dog and pheasant.

Have at least managed successful sightings of rain, more rain and sausage dog this month.

Thanks! I was pleased with how it turned out, makes the blue less of a solid block.

She tends to photograph either as teeth-achingly sweet or Kray Twin.

Close up of glaring cat.

I've switched to a vanilla flavoured tablet that can be ground up and hidden in Lik-e-lix for similar reasons

It’s time: how to get your department off X With a flurry of HE professionals leaving the platform, here’s how to notify your followers and provide alternative options for staying up to date

@nedpotter.bsky.social has written various pieces about the University of York's experience and library social media migration in general including this THE piece - www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/its-t...

The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, stopped posting on X in late 2024, and the main UoW Library account no longer posts on there. Both have kept their accounts existing but inactive to reduce risk of impersonation. Archives and Records Association is no longer active there either.

Watch It's No Joke Living in Barnsley - BFI Player Barnsley-born actor Brian Glover returns to his Yorkshire hometown in this RTS-winning portrait of 1970s working-class northern life.

The BFI have got this online as well, came out a year later in 1976 but somehow missed out the skiing and canoeing (there's a hot tub but it's got 11 footballers and Brian Glover in it) share.google/UJH6IV6ysQhn...

Finally found a use for that 25 year old dictaphone cassette in a drawer...

Two cyanotypes, one with feathers and the other with various plants (including fern, ivy and grasses).

Two cyanotypes of various plants. Ivy features, as do grasses, brambles and something that was growing in the carpark. One of them also has netting over it.

Two more cyanotypes, one with a bottle and two thin, stemmy plants, the other with a broken pair of glasses and some watch bits.

Three cyanotypes, one with an unravelling micro cassette and a pair of headphones, the others with bits of lace and some sewing paraphernalia.

Faffing-with-cyanotypes-as-a-minor-distraction attempt two

It *might* be possible to get a new copy from www.merlinpress.co.uk/page/backlis... for those with less Ellen Wilkinson in their local library

I might have to get a copy out of the work library soonish if there's an unexpected shortage...

Very much a sideline, given the main topic, but interesting to see him posing with a stereoscopic viewer as one of the tools of his trade.

Waves from somewhere that is apparently Beyond.

Bearing in mind that my musical tastes are notoriously not upbeat, Isabel Campbell (with bonus Mark Lanegan), Arab Strap, Gerry Rafferty (Night Owl for preference)

Photograph of an upside down mug on a damp bench. The mug is white with a silhouette of a pigeon and the caption 'All I care about are pigeons and maybe four other people...'.

Going to work I got into the habit of nodding to this pigeon mug, left each day on a bench by the office. The spot on the bench varied, once or twice money was left on top.

The mug has been missing since new year. This week it reappeared in slightly tea stained glory, a low key moment of #TinyJoys

Report of the Lurgi Study Group, October 1963.

'Tis the season

Possibly Burll Ginsburg (Burl with a bonus l)

I'd go with Anne Macover for the second person.

I think that's the fourth box filled so far. They invested heavily in steel embellished, spikey stationery items.

Box of stabby metalwork.

The office is probably familiar with the percussive clunk of metalwork by now...

Yellow cardboard folder with document clamped in with metal fastening. Two stabby metal prongs are fixed to the folder for no useful reason.

Pile of orange folders with stabby prongs sticking out, ready to impale the palm of a hand.

Wielding a pair of pliers at these 1980s files in sympathy.

OK, English-speaking folks, I'm trying to think of a nice, short-ish poem for my adult audience. I thought of Wordsworth's Daffodils, or of Frost's Road not taken, but if you had to choose one poem for a French audience with an intermediate level, what would be your pick?

As a sharer of the office space, can I strongly discourage the sprout and cheddar option.

You might be able to fashion something from panettone and Dairy Milk if you get desperate.

Two bottles of Jacquard cyanotype chemicals next to some processed photos.

Thanks! It's surprisingly straightforward and pleasantly distracting - definitely recommend if you're interested.

Some cheapish photographic chemicals, watercolour paper or fabric, and the sun (or a UV lamp if it's January) is more or less all you need.

Harwell cardboard box glowing suspiciously. A UV lamp is plugged into the top.

Cyanotypes inside the impromptu lightbox, developing.

Yes, I may have borrowed part of the dark room from work.

Three cyanotypes in a tray, one with cogs, one with a couple of thin plants with small flowers at the top, and the third with feathers and what appears to be a small seagull.

Cyanotype of ferns, because every attempt at this photographic process appears to require at least one image of ferns.

Three cyanotypes of plants, including ivy, grasses and something else that was growing near the house.

Three cyanotypes, one involving grasses, one with cogs and skeletal fish, and the third featuring a fern and a selection of lizards.

Have typically picked the time of the year with least sun to start playing around with cyanotypes at home

Black and white image of a Victorian knitting frame, still used to demonstrate at the FWK Museum.

Here to share more about our work celebrating the craft and graft of framework knitting, plus our new programme of events, workshops and exhibitions coming up in 2026.