Would be ‘interesting’ to tot up the human hours it takes to put an app together
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Would be ‘interesting’ to tot up the human hours it takes to put an app together
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2026, as seen in stinking iris, ivy, holly, and pyracantha observed on winter dog walks. I got as far as 202 when the lurgy struck me down; finally I’ve finished the 6: wishing everyone brighter days, peace, and the joy of starting things and the relief of finishing them.
Reframing King James VI and I: special issue of British Art Studies out now, new scholarship marking the 400th anniversary of the death of King James. Fireside reading treat🎄 👑
Ah wonderful - Jayne would have loved this topic
- wow - I don’t understand though. Is the £3.5 to bid with, or is that the threshold for withdrawing from sale?
PS please share with anyone who might benefit/be interested!
New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.
Things are bleak but if the ‘resurgence of libraries’ is an outcome of medievalcore and dark academia trends then there is hope www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Still haven’t really posted/engaged much with it but enjoying the general lack of toxicity!
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Shout-out to @alixebovey.bsky.social wonderful 2020 BBC Radio 4 programme
"Knight Fights Giant Snail":
#AdoreSnails
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Ah this made my day - glad the giant snails still going strong on BBC Sounds 🐌🤺
Geoffrey Luttrell, patron of the Luttrell Psalter, died 650 years ago today - 23 May 1345 also his 69th birthday. Ars longa, vita brevis. (British Library, Add MS 42130). (Speaking of brevis, I’ve posted a much longer blather about this on insta). Happy anniversary, Geoffrey Luttrell.
Glorious - I’d say it was Edenic but images of Eden never include topiary tools
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Startling too in view of your next post, re UKRI ‘kickstarting economic growth’. Events in Dundee will kick economic growth to the kerb in that great city, no?
I don’t think I follow your analogy. Writing is to thinking, reading, and communicating ≠ SLR is to phone camera. (Also, are everyone’s phone snaps good enough?)
Happy birthday! 🍋🎂
Goya’s luminous salmon steaks are completely ravishing - like he painted them for an hour and a half, then ate them. One of the many extraordinary works on loan to @courtauld.bsky.social from the Oskar Reinhart Collection for Goya to Impressionism, opening on Valentine’s Day.
Lecturer in Early Modern Art History (1400-1800) - AC2505RXLS
University of St Andrews - School of Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU715/l...
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love (Grove Press, 1998), 71
[Scholarship is] where we’re nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it’s for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn’t matter where on what, it’s the light itself, against the darkness
In Tom Stoppard’s Invention of Love, the young A. E. Housman has a line I can’t get out of my mind since seeing Hampstead Theatre’s production last weekend (so much so that I looked it up):
Why indeed. Painful to hear Michael Buchanan reporting more terrible stories on PM today, this time about faulty antenatal testing.
Such a wonderful book plate. I’m sorry to read this news.
Ah thank you ❤️
The show is on til 16 Feb. A great description and images of the object - Paris, c 1325x50, is on the @vamuseum collection’s website (‘Storming the Castle of Love’) accession no. 1617-1855). collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120162...
#medievalart #drawing #castleoflove #courtauld #medievalmultiplied