Dr Rob
@robheighton
he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things 📍 Britain • 📖 Ashford • 📺 Nelson Mandela House
Twelve years after reading ASOIAF, I'm finally giving this a go. Meant to get round to it sooner, but ah well: for everything there is a season!
Always been partial to this lovely Roman border pattern – not least because one of its variations memorably graced the covers of the wonderful Roman Mysteries books (by @carolawrence.bsky.social) with which I grew up
Mine is now hiding both (that one is Non-sexual Nudity, which is more accurate at least), but I don't think the algorithm had made its mind up on that one yet when I was first scrolling your thread
A tiny cinnabar moth caterpillar and – as I only noticed after I'd started taking photos – his near-microscopic siblings close by!
Kirstie Allsopp started this round, I think, but plenty of others have weighed in
Every now and then, big British names of a certain age start bemoaning the supposedly recent prevalence of "pass (away)" as a euphemism for "die", and every time I'm confused because it goes back centuries and appears in the works of authors like Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Barrie
The sun has finally shown itself on this summer solstice, and so I've set up a little solar alignment of my own