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Rob Ralley

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Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now Unlocking Digital Texts, but still Napiering. And taking photos. Views my own.


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Ah, if only we had room for one. It'll save us some watering, I suppose...

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Thank you! I was pleased to catch it.

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Sigh. First chance to get out of the house today and it's pouring down. So here's yesterday's impressive sunset. 📷 #photography

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Beautiful. Waiting in all afternoon for a repair man, I can confirm, isn't.

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Ah, who needs to talk. Cheers.

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I hardly ever get time these days, but I should give it a go. 🙂

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I was a (spelling-modified) answer in a cryptic crossword once. Had a friend who set for the Guardian.

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'covering keratin' and 'milk on white', by Helen Marten with Fran Edgerley. From the Tatton Park Biennial 2010.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt

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Light breaking through tonight. 📷 #photography

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🤣

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Ha ha! That's a thought. Yes, definitely. 👍

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#thursdaybins spotted on the way back from voting. (Why they let bins vote I'll never know.)

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That looks great. Bit more of a stretch from where we occasionally find ourselves (in Cheshire), but maybe one day we'll go.

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We must be due a repeat visit. (We have family nearby.)

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Egyptian portal and sphinxes at Biddulph Grange, made around 1856.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt

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Thank you! It seems less threatening when it's dried up. Less poisonous too, apparently.

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Hemlock. 📷 #photography

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We'll do our best. 🤞

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😂

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That might have been OTT. 🤔

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No indeed. An appreciative murmur would have been perfectly adequate.

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😆 I'd always imagined not, but it's possible. She was filling in and I suspected she was concerned about what other teachers round about might think...

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She said: 'I won't give you news in future if you're going to react like that!'

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Ha ha! I'll bet. I wasn't drinking at that stage, and this time round I have to be compos mentis for someone coming to fix something on Friday. 🙄

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I was in a science lesson (first year at secondary school). The teacher was a tiny bit alarmed at the indiscipline, I think, when she gave us the news and we all cheered.

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😀👍

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I love this.

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I think I missed a lot of these the first time round, so I at least would be very happy to see them reposted.

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Hey, I'd pay good money to see that.

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'Cuthbert of Farne', by Fenwick Lawson, framed by an arch at Lindisfarne Priory.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt

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Hope you're not stuck there/ill for too long.

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Encountering Reform UK ads while looking something up on the British History Online website leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.

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Beautiful. That purple is quite something.

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😆 I'm laughing like an idiot now.

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Thank you! 😊

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Wow! Thank you. That's very kind.

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Long grass on the edge of town. 📷 #photography

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Statue, Anglesey Abbey.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt

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🤣

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Saw something like this parked in our local Tesco once. Took up four parking spaces.

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Monday blue. 📷 #photography

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No apologies necessary! 🙂

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You're doing sterling work on it today.

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Yes, I fear there's not a huge amount we can do about that. Even watermarks only help if his followers or Bluesky are bothered about it (cf. Facebook).

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That shouldn't be possible. If I block someone I don't expect them to see things I've posted even via a repost. (If you do then I'd say it's clearly a bug.) You can't do much against someone who logs out and then views your posts, unless you've chosen to be hidden from anyone not logged in.

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😂

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Thank you for the recommendation. It may take me a while to work out how to do it subtly enough...

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😀 Good thought. I'm looking at watermarking right now.

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I'm sorry to hear that. Yes, it doesn't do much more than make it a little harder to take from this one SM account, and not much harder at that.

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'Big Fella', by Ray Lonsdale. On the seafront at Silloth in Cumbria.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt

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