Alice Bennett (@aliceponderland) · DIRTY

Alice Bennett

@aliceponderland

Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.

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Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· 27d

This is the other side of town, about 5:30pm today. How is the infrastructure this poor?

Photo looking up a terraced street of brick houses with parked cars on the road, with gushing muddy water flooding the road and pavements

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jul 13

This one is regularly flattening plants at my parents, despite the longstanding gardening rule of leaving tortoise paths. She also tried to cross the lawn wearing the bird table last week because she wouldn’t go round it.

Adult tortoise (testudo graeca) emerging from a flower bed onto grass whilst giving the camera a suspicious look

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jun 28

Hollyhocks in the park

Two flower spikes of hollyhocks with deep plum coloured blooms with the frothy cream flowers of meadowsweet behind it

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jun 23

Freezer packs in front of a fan are cooling and don’t really add to humidity like ice water, if that’s an option - as shown in my very elegant home made air con set up

Small desk fan with a freezer pack balanced on a small bowl in from of it

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jun 14

Heath speedwell, which was a new spot for me #WildflowerHour

Tiny spikes of lilac blue flowers on a very small plant growing close to the ground

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jun 13

Spotted some northern marsh orchids today. Not a great picture but I was very happy to spot these. #wildflowerhour

Close up photo of a small northern marsh orchid - the flower spike has blooming bright purple flowers on it

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jun 12

This is my reference for Flumps

Photo of pink and yellow marshmallow twists

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· May 30

Face reveal. Wrong answers only.

The actor Dirk Benedict as Face from The A team

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· May 20

Euclides disguised herself quite well hiding in the fireplace

A recessed fireplace with a small unlit stove, on large slate flagstones. The stove has a ceramic duck on it and there is a wooden bowl of large seed pods on the flagstones in front of it. A tortoise has wedged herself between the bowl and the stove.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· May 17

@playbrarian.uk made these fabulous more realistic affirmation postcards which I got today via @meganeve.eurosky.social - I love these!

Letterpress postcards with mottos reading “I deserve a wagon wheel”; “Thriving from Spite”; and “it’s ok to lie firm in the dirt and let the moss and mushrooms reclaim me”

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· May 10

Happy birthday! Hope you have had a great day

A medium sized brindled dog looking up hopefully, emerging from under a table, her head just coming out from under the tablecloth

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· May 2

Post your warning sign

Plastic sign from a bird reserve (located outside a hide) with an icon of a sleeping wading bird, above which it says Quiet Please I’m easily disturbed

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Apr 28

Choose the form of the Destructor: York edition.

A very tall narrow multangular red brick chimney, set in a semi industrial park setting, with smaller walls and buildings around it. The chimney is a York landmark, grade 2 listed industrial heritage and named The Destructor.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Apr 17

Ripon Cathedral crossing tower! Where Romanesque arches meet gothic arches. Literally.

Photo looking up into the ceiling of Ripon Cathedral’s crossing tower. You can see panelled ceiling and the arch leading to the nave is filled with a massive church organ. The arch to the left and the one just visible at the top are both curved Roman arches, but the arch on the right and the one over the organ are both pointed gothic arches.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Apr 2

This still lives in my head rent free. Perfect response.

Screenshot of a retweet - original poster named Daniel is arguing for 9-5 limits on disabled parking because he (Quote) doesn’t see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times. This has been retweeted by Jennifer Lee Rossman with the perfect comeback that “We’re disabled Daniel, we’re not werewolves”.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Mar 25

Fritillaries in the park

Patch of snakehead fritillary flowers, mostly purple flowers but with a few white flowers dotted through, with the late afternoon sun shining through them.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Mar 19

This lady woke up today! She’s not eaten yet though, still adjusting.

A Greek Tortoise sits on a sunny lawn, her limbs out but her head slightly tucked into her shell.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Mar 17

Not feeling great but the bus stop is looking quite picturesque this morning

View taken from low stone wall looking along a high grassy bank with daffodils, on the top of the bank is a crenellated stone wall, its very sunny

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Mar 4

Beginning to feel a little bit like spring 🌱

Close up of potted plants in a yard, with flowering yellow narcissi and plum coloured hellebores in the foreground

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Mar 4

Obligatory Yorkshire spring photo for those without access to Look North

Early evening photo of Clifford’s Tower, a medieval limestone tower on a large grassy mound, against a pale blue sky and with lots of small daffodils in flower on the mound

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 28

Archduke Franz Ferdinand would like a word.

Screenshot of a post by a user called Doli - they ask Is Jeffrey Epstein the first person to start scene posthumously?

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 16

And this perfectly round little faience hedgehog is at the Met in New York.

A small blue ceramic hedgehog figurine but with the hedgehog curled up, so it’s like a ball but with a face and 4 paws and a tail

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 16

This very bobbly little guy is in the Neues Museum in Berlin

A small blue ceramic hedgehog figurine - it’s quite rotund and little 3d dots have been used to give the impression of spines

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 16

This magnificently eyebrowed example is at the Fitzwilliam museum

A small blue ceramic hedgehog figurine - other figurines have dots or incisions to indicate spines but this one had black lines painted on. It has quite a worried little face.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 16

This little dude is in the Brooklyn museum

A small blue ceramic hedgehog figurine - it’s a little crude but characterful, the hedgehog has a very pointy snout

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 15

Do they though? Because I genetically don’t have all the regular second set and the X-rays very much suggest there is not a third set in there.

Headline reading Humans have a third set of teeth. New medicine may help them grow.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 14

Thank goodness, because my Gruffalo is 2 now and it’s been very hard to find suitable biscuits for it

Organix biscuits packaging - cocoa & vanilla Gruffalo biscuits, snack suitable for over twelve months

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Feb 8

Still from Game of Thrones, showing the actor Anton Lesser playing Maester Qyburn, the adviser to Cersei. For those unfamiliar with the series, Qyburn willingly commits murder and human experimentation.

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jan 27

Got to work looking totes profesh

The bespectacled worried face of woman looking down at a camera, she’s in a big coat with the hood up, a tuft a damp hair sticking out from the hood, she’s soaked with rain

Alice Bennett@aliceponderland· Jan 22

Wow, unexpected new feature available from the BBC News website.

Screenshot of BBC News website as viewed on a phone. Amidst the feed of stories is a button which says Change My Nation