#19thCentury #workout

Smartly dressed for synchronised exercise circa 1885. Pencil drawing created in or around 1885 by a Victorian child living in England:

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#NaturalRemedies #19thCentury

Cautionary tale created c. 1880 by Victorian child living in England. Girl who has eaten 'so much jam that it made her ill' has taken 'a large rhubarb pill' and 'some senna too':

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If only I'd read this as a youth 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Spoonbill at dawn...

Another shot from yesterdays early morning session with the spoonbills, not sure when there's going to be another opportunity with the current forecast

Got quite a few from the session and might as well post them now or I'll have moved on...

This canister is surely enchanted? 🏰🥀✨

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old bead was found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.

'Be careful with that spear – you almost ruined my cloak!'

Ethiopia, 18th c. #rider #spear #africanwarrior #africanart

Bonus Thursday ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Ghent, JPGM, Ms. Ludwig XIII 5, vol. 1, f. 55

The old Crown Tavern on Cornmarket, #Oxford . #Shakespeare ’s usual pit-stop on ‘his journies between Warwickshire and London’. Just wonderful that this survives among all the Starbucks and phone shops below. Visits thru the brilliant Oxford Preservation Trust

Sunbittern with wing and eye spot display

Bit harsh.

Never gets old.

Discovered this early illuminated Glaswegian script: 'respice in faciem, sicut ego vidi et stupri iocatum?' ...and for the non Latin scholars, 'Look it ma face, dae a look like am f*ckin' jokin'?'

Hamish has a proposal, form an orderly queue.

It’s amazing how many posts FB throw up at you are the ones you’d rather forget. This guy was a total dick, though

Guns, and their atrocious version of potato salad.

Murphy, a disabled Bald Eagle became famous after he attempted to hatch a rock. In 2023 the keepers of his sanctuary replaced his rock with an orphaned eaglet, allowing Murphy to finally become a real parent

A local shop in Dublin, built over an 11th Century AD, Viking era Tunnel :

LIDL set out in 2013 to create a new store in Dublin, but what they uncovered during the excavation process was nothing short of miraculous. The construction crew discovered the ruins of a historic…