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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

πŸ”— Pompeii fresco depicts what might be the precursor of pizza

Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that may depict the ancestor of the Italian pizza.

More details from The History Blog: Still life with pizza found at Pompeii

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β™« My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (30), The Wedding Present (3), William The Conqueror (3), Queens of the Stone Age (2) & The Smile (2) #weeklymusic via @tweeklyfm

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Post-show espressos β˜•οΈπŸŽ΅

Woman sitting at table at dusk, small coffees and theatre programme on table, illuminated fairground wheel and red brick building in background Copper building frontage at dusk with adjacent clear skies
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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Wales Millennium Centre for the WNO production of Bernstein’s Candide 🎡

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2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

National Eisteddfod of Wales

2024 Eisteddfod Proclamation, Aberdare, Saturday 24th June 2023

Proclaiming the Eisteddfod’s intention to visit an area at least a year and a day before the beginning of the festival

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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Darren Fawr Round Cairns

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Linkblog πŸ”—: Pagan Fires Burning: The New Wave of Dark Folk from the UK and Ireland 🎡

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β˜•οΈ Asher’s Whisky Fruit Cake and coffee

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Too much cricket but I can’t stop myself. Women’s Ashes Test about to start. Australia batting first 🏏

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June 21st 2023, the summer solstice, was the sixth annual #ShowYourStripes day.

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Chart, visualising temperature increases since 1850, consisiting of vertical stripes coloured blue to red, a lot more red on the right Bar chart showing warming temperatures in Cardiff since 1850
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Good morning from the greenhouse. I’m watering the tomatoes 🌱

Inside a small untidy greenhouse, young tomato plants growing on either side of central stone path Low view of door to a small greenhouse, chives growing in foreground
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Watched on Wednesday June 21, 2023.

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🏏 1st Ashes Test approaching an end. Outcome still very uncertain.

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πŸ”— Multicultural Man: On technology

As regular readers of this column know, I don’t think there is an anthropic solution to anthropogenic climate change

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Linkblog πŸ”—: Upcoming anarchist books in 2023

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