Christian Algar
@ceebarnacles
By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there 🖤🌊
I’ve had a really shit tattoo (a crucifix with crossed bones that looks like it was done in prison) since I was 16. I’ve thought about getting it covered up, but the older I get the more I think I might just get some more really shit tattoos. I keep it, mostly, to remind me what a twat I can be.
Entirely unrelated nice things I liked in work today. Everything else was predictably shit. #nicethings #bookssavinglives #hiedebe
Am excited for tonight lads! My favourite Island Cooking with Accras de Moure and Jerk Pork 🕺🌶️❤️🔥 (crushing whole pimientos is one of my favourite culinary tasks).
Who knew?! (🙌 to the determination for exorcising the ignominy of ‘Home of the Margaret Thatcher’). #england #thenorth #imgettinganosebleed
By hilarious coincidence, a band at Sandwich Beer and Folk Festival have just belted out … @miaout.bsky.social 😃🙉
Definitely a hill I will die on. I have an entire album for interesting examples and uses in historical print, but for some amicable balance here’s an example of a book featuring both fists and ms manicules … ☞
Lot 1265 from a book auction in 1826: 9 early 17th-century tracts. 3 are unrecorded works 3 are unrecorded editions 3 have 3, 1, and 1 copies known. 😳 ‼️ A dream volume, sadly broken-up but imagine where are those 6 rare pieces?! #bookhistory
We are all Menocchio! 🖤 Rest in Peace, Carlo Ginzburg. His work hammered home the fact that curiosity, original thinking, independence of mind, strength of character and belief, resistance to ‘the norm’ and to power and authority has *always* been a part of human history.
Holy Moly!! Living wages for a #rarebooks job - and free dentistry thrown in too!! 🫠
Putting the finishing touches to the best and most meaningful work I have ever done. Really looking forward to presenting this (and I’m keeping the faith with old school wordcloud pictograms! 😀) #bookhistory #culturalheritage #britishhistory #moneyforoldbooks #historicalredress #slavery
Sick of English fascists appropriating, exploiting and disingenuously exalting people who fought in past military conflicts.
Firsts: I just replied to someone at work saying I am getting old and struggle to remember things / do things etc … Genuine feels.
Cambridge Trinity College Library catalogue making me sleepy this morning … 🙄🫠
Make your own take-away night: first time I’ve made fresh falafel using the air fryer and it went okay. Saves using a litre of oil!!
Proof I can behave myself next to a fucking great big wooden barrel of wine. #fuckinggreatbignarrelsofwine #goodbehavior
C’mon you Rip-Roaring Reds!! ❤️🤍 #whenyoudontstillfitinyouroldfootballshirts #afc
£2 a packet of football stickers?!!! 5p a pack when I were a nipper! Fucking rip off. (And ‘eff Fifa!)
One of the most pleasing culinary rituals if at home on a Monday morning is making chicken stock.
Impressive that Rupert Murdoch turned up. (Photo by Jeff Pitcher)
The Reform County Councillor who (sadly) lives on our street has made the place look like some crap crazy golf course by flying St George’s flag bunting while he waits to fix his damaged flag pole which he recently put up. So classy.
Bleak House at number 12?! Good grief! What’s your biggest ‘good grief’? (There’s a few).