Another 10 things your children should know how to cook.
Episode 13: Rhubarb crumble #homeeconomicsforlife #kidscookingclass #thisisIrishfood

I think a master storyteller like Boccaccio would be more delighted than confused by this. I am full on delighted on his behalf.
‘The Decameron’ Sets Netflix July 2024 Release Date and Everything We Know (via What's on Netflix) whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-decam…

The real prize went to the spokesman for the Netherlands jury...

Dinner last night with yet another professor planning to leave the academy because the working conditions are so appalling. Won't someone tell the administrators what damage they are doing to higher education?

Today is, in fact, World Buckfast Day ...

Layla (3) has taken to delaying sleep by sitting straight up and saying with urgency 'I NEED to TELL you a question'

I think she is ready for her first academic conference

When I think of FW Howth and environs ✨

What is it about Twitter that people who really should know better, historians even, feel perfectly entitled to mouth off about the middle ages when they haven't the first notion what they are talking about?

'The Spirit of the Rose'. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1902.
Image: Hunterian

'Of course they pumped the old communism into me for some time' ... Gutsy girl ...

In the last few yrs I have been told that many ideas previously part of my intellectual formation should be abandoned or abolished, inc—
Prehistory
The West/Western Civilisation
The Anglo-Saxons
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment

Yet I’m stuck with the Tudors🤷‍♂️

One would be hard pressed to find one, single redeeming feature ...

police have released a photo of the ringleader of the raid:

And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who has taken part in ICOME 13. These few days have been incredibly enlightening.
We will see you in Switzerland in 2026!

Just missing some scallions ☀️

If you're in/around Glasgow on Saturday 15th June (and you like early films and/or James Joyce), do consider joining me for this: 📽️📚 🍿ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/cinema-volta/