Donald Roy · @djr
97 followers · 2170 posts · Server union.place

@emsquared

Recently they seem to have revived the 1960s concept of "The thinking man's crumpet"
namely attractive and highly intelligent women presenting programmes - the most obvious examples being and - not to everyone's taste perhaps but somewhat of an improvement on reality TV!

#bbc #bettanyhughes #aliceroberts

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
738 followers · 736 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Oh and has now got to . Sheer bliss for me! I studied this and its as part of my honours degree course on the and its people. One of my favourite of that course was writing about Ephesus and how it merged and . I remember drafting a version of the essay sitting in Clayton Caravan Park restaurant between and .

#scotland #fife #openuniversity #ancienthistory #turkey #guardbridge #dairsie #belief #culture #essays #romanempire #archaeology #ephesus #bettanyhughes

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
738 followers · 735 posts · Server mastodon.scot

And has just got to . Bliss! My g..uncle Charles Maclaren, founder and long time editor of The newspaper, was one of the first westerners to suggest the location of the city was . Which later excavated. I studied Troy in the last year of my / BA(Hons).

#turkey #homer #archaeology #familyhistory #genealogy #classicalstudies #history #openuniversity #schliemann #hisarlik #scotsman #troy #bettanyhughes

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
738 followers · 734 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Watching (recorded) in , , including stone figurines of ancient figures and tombs cut high into the walls. And all I can think of constantly is the two-part story with , the , and the planet that a spaceship crashed into.

#weepingangels #riversong #doctorwho #mattsmith #turkey #lycia #bettanyhughes

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