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Katherine Piper 🦇
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Retired Egyptologist/archaeologist now heckling. Occasional roundhouse builder and regular volunteer at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Currently the Egypt Exploration Society bake sale, formerly archives and events volunteer. AuDHD.
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That’s the universe telling you to camp in a roundhouse 🛖 Hope the rest of it goes better. Some of us from Flag Fen visited Butser to chat roundhouses the other year, and I was very envious of the IoA’s setup there compared to West Dean!

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Although I have to say my favourite thing about this film is Mary absolutely refusing to entertain Colin’s nonsense.

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Oh nooooo

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Someone who was born in 2008 recently asked me what Tony Blair was like, in the way that people tend to ask about long-dead historical figures, and that blew my mind a bit. I was then asked if the royals had Princess Diana killed. Wild times to be a 90s kid …

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Oh yeah, that too.

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(With the exception of the bit where Gandalf whacks Denethor on the head with his staff.)

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Here are some baby Wendy pictures from when she was being bottle-fed in April and May, for a gloomy Monday morning.

Photo shows Wendy the Soay sheep as a very young lamb, standing between the legs of the Flag Fen assistant manager. The top of her head doesn’t even come up to his knees.
Photo shows Wendy a couple of weeks later, somewhat fluffier, standing on the tiled floor of the office at Flag Fen.
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Although I hope the petting farm has been advised that these sheep don’t really do human contact beyond looking you dead in the eye while vandalising things.

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50 of the sheep are going to a petting farm in north Wales, and 15 each are going to smallholders, it’s not that kind of going to live on a nice farm somewhere 😅

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I know it regularly gets hosed down, but it reminds me of when an animal swallows something and then spits it back out, and I just don’t see how it gets to be cute 😬

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Katherine Piper 🦇
@katherinepiper.bsky.social
Retired Egyptologist/archaeologist now heckling. Occasional roundhouse builder and regular volunteer at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Currently the Egypt Exploration Society bake sale, formerly archives and events volunteer. AuDHD.
145 followers144 following270 posts