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Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Quite excited, because tomorrow I start the siege of Jerusalem… #Pax
Starting the siege of Jerusalem
September 2023
Taking a break from besieging Jerusalem to have lunch

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Feb 6
I commend Milton's splendid phrase "inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery" to everyone on this site.
Also Dr Johnson on cant: "A whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms."
'Cant' is a splendid word, that really deseres to make a comeback.
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Feb 5
Reading @margarettelinc1’s new book, London & the 17th Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City, & enjoying it very much.

Having already done walks of Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval & Tudor London, I feel another marathon coming on…
I curl back up with London & the 17th Century - been looking forward to it all day!
“In 1636, City authorities petitioned that Stepney’s high number of plague deaths might not be included in London’s Bills of Mortality, so as not to give a worse impression of sickness in the City than was the case” - @margarettelinc1 #LondonInThe17thC
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Jan 27
To Lancing, there to meet with the willow masters of @Newbery_Cricket, who - in readiness for the mighty deeds that I will be performing this coming summer - are going to be forging me a Bat of Power.
Some might say so, some might say so…
We arrive at @Newbery_Cricket, the Rivendell of the cricket kit-making world…
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Jan 25
Dragon-horse, drawn by Hokusai c. 1830 (featured in a wonderful exhibition of his drawings at ⁦@britishmuseum⁩) Image
Sea otter & water buffalo Image
‘Southern barbarian’ (aka Portuguese) @MacaesBruno Image
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Jan 25
To @britishmuseum, there to gawp at the wonders of Peru… ImageImageImageImage
#MassiveLad Image
Jack Grealish’s leg (or possibly Inca, c. 1450) Image
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Jan 15
Oh FFS
Villa are somehow 0-3 down this week, despite transparently having been the better team
Come on!
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