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S Blandford

@SBlandfo

Poet. Nature, conservation, history, archaeology, art, architecture, politics & the pleasures of reading. Doyenne of #IronworkThursday. Still #yallmasking

 Norfolk, UK
Joined December 2008
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You can always find me where the sky is blue
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Hard to believe it’s more than 8 years since I created the #IronworkThursday hashtag. It’s been brilliant seeing all your amazing #metalwork favourites and discoveries here. I hope our metallurgical conversation can continue where the sky is blue (and atmosphere less toxic)…
Old black metalwork pharmacy sign and lantern from near to the Leaning Tower of Pisa silhouetted against a brilliant blue Italian sky.

ALT Old black metalwork pharmacy sign and lantern from near to the Leaning Tower of Pisa silhouetted against a brilliant blue Italian sky.

S Blandford (@SBlandfo) profile pictureS Blandford@SBlandfo1 Sep 2016
Two #coalplates on Ferry Lane in the Close @Nrw_Cathedral. 6 circles & a star but no maker's name. #IronworkThursday
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Bookings are now open for this year’s @NclAntiquaries lecture: The extramural settlements and bathhouse at Birdoswald by Tony Willmott and @ProfIanHaynes @ArchaeologyNCL
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👀 Pump #Langport #Somerset Seen at the entrance to Beard’s Yard - “Artesian Tubewell sunk by LeGrand & Sutcliff, Bunhill Row #London 1878” #IronworkThursday
Image from Malcolm Stoneman (@mutley7781)
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5thLackey@5thLackey24 Oct 2024
#IronworkThursday #ArmillarySphere #MottisfontAbbey
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Right-angle boot scraper, at St Albans Cathedral. #IronworkThursday Could be hurdled by an athletic @MouseBishop for some early morning exercise. 🐭
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If the Directors of a company pay large dividends to shareholders *before* ensuring that they can afford to meet their statutory obligations, surely they are committing some kind of offence?
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@ACORNunion22 Oct 2024
If they need more money maybe they should stop paying out billions to their shareholders first?
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This photo by @SCJmurphy with its exuberant church #metalwork is perfect for #IronworkThursday too!
Revd Steve Murphy (@SCJmurphy) profile pictureRevd Steve Murphy@SCJmurphy24 Oct 2024
A thing of beauty for #AdorableThursday #Prestbury #doorhinge
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Sewage, wastewater and agricultural pollution are choking England’s waters. 🌊 Chalk streams, among the world’s rarest habitats, are also under threat. With 85% located in the UK, we bear an international responsibility to protect them. 💚🌎 #COP16 (1/2)
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Kelly@broadwaybabyto20 Oct 2024
If I’m wrong and Covid turns out to be “no biggie”…the worst that’s happened is I’ve had cleaner air & worn a mask in public. Absolutely no harm has been done to me. If YOU are wrong - you’ve potentially damaged every system in your body because you didn’t “feel” like masking
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If it's warm and sunny today, that's an example of 'St Luke's little summer' - a traditional name for a period of fine weather around the feast of St Luke, 18 October. The sunlight of summer, falling on the glowing colours of autumn. gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sackvill…
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How To Avoid Catching Covid While Flying "Many of us know this already, but it’s worth recalling: Research has found that wearing a well-fitting, high-quality mask like an N95 or KN95 lowers your chances of picking up COVID-19 by 83%, according to CDC " apple.news/AyoKRsQ5CRtWWOJV2…
How To Avoid Catching Covid While Flying

How To Avoid Catching Covid While Flying

Doctors and health professionals share simple steps for lowering your risk of exposure.

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This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Maeve Boothby O’Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen? |...

Maeve Boothby O’Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen? |...

Chronic fatigue syndrome is as physiological as a broken leg. ​We must learn all we can from this tragic case, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Why is the @NHSEngland policy on Covid vaccination so wildly out of line with the USA where *everyone* 6 months or older is being advised to get vaccinated?!
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CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine to protect against severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalization, and death. Read the latest on CDC’s 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine recommendation in @CDCMMWR: bit.ly/mm7337e2
An illustration of four people ranging in ages. Text reads, "CDC recommends the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine for everyone 6 months and older. An updated vaccine protects against: COVID-19 variants spreading now; severe illness, hospitalization, and death."

ALT An illustration of four people ranging in ages. Text reads, "CDC recommends the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine for everyone 6 months and older. An updated vaccine protects against: COVID-19 variants spreading now; severe illness, hospitalization, and death."

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Emily♡@ItsEmilyKaty18 Oct 2024
As #OCDAwarenessWeek comes to an end, let’s remember that OCD is not being tidy, clean or liking order. It isn’t a personality trait, a quirk or cool. OCD is a debilitating condition which consumes a person’s mind and life through persistent intrusive thoughts and compulsions.
An orange mindmap with the middle circle saying OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) with arrows to eight smaller circles. These read: obsessions (thoughts, images, urges) and compulsive behaviours; obsessions are unwanted, persistent, anxiety provoking and distressing; themes may include harm, contamination, sexual intrusive thoughts etc.

ALT An orange mindmap with the middle circle saying OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) with arrows to eight smaller circles. These read: obsessions (thoughts, images, urges) and compulsive behaviours; obsessions are unwanted, persistent, anxiety provoking and distressing; themes may include harm, contamination, sexual intrusive thoughts etc.

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It would be fantastic to see these glowing colours projected on to some of the stone #Mithras reliefs from #HadriansWall and elsewhere
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#FrescoFriday - The tauroctony scene from the Mithraeum of Capua (Italy), 2nd century AD. Mithras is depicted slaying the white bull with the torchbearers, Cautes and Cautopates, on either side. A big snake is creeping over the ground while a dog leaps against the bull.
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#FrescoFriday - The tauroctony scene from the Mithraeum of Capua (Italy), 2nd century AD. Mithras is depicted slaying the white bull with the torchbearers, Cautes and Cautopates, on either side. A big snake is creeping over the ground while a dog leaps against the bull.
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Some weeks #IronworkThursday is a bit quieter than others - but everyone’s images of #metalwork, historic or modern, are always very welcome!
Victorian Web (@VictorianWeb) profile pictureVictorian Web@VictorianWeb17 Oct 2024
#IronworkThursday—haven't seen this hashtag for a while, but here are the wonderful "hoppy" balustrades and fanciful entrance to the Hop Exchange in Southwark St, London, worth visiting just for the ironwork alone victorianweb.org/victorian/a…
Hop plants twining up along the stairwell, painted a perfect light green.

ALT Hop plants twining up along the stairwell, painted a perfect light green.

Much more fanciful and intricate silvery ironwork over and around the front entrance (there's wonderful architectural sculpture as well, see "Related Material" on this page)

ALT Much more fanciful and intricate silvery ironwork over and around the front entrance (there's wonderful architectural sculpture as well, see "Related Material" on this page)

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#IronworkThursday #StJohn #Cardiff seen similar at other churches, claimed to be old railway rails but seem too narrow
Image from Barb Drummond (@Barb_Drummond)
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#IronworkThursday #StJohn #Cardiff
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