Professor Jasper Heathcoat-Beech

@Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum 😂🤣'Descent into madness'? Aren't I already at the bottom?

@JasperBeech @nomadpossum I retract. You are likely reeking of Imperial Leather. (My favourite, actually). I fear what may happen if you don't locate this missing noggin-saver. Descent into madness probably. A mad historian, what are the odds?!

Yoo-hoo! Clue-hoo! Woo-hoo!

I think it's the little label on Imperial Leather soap that makes it 'spesh'. But it does sound a bit outdated. I've often thought you should be able to buy Post-colonial Leather as an alternative.

@Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum That's a little harsh. Can't beat an ablution solution. But 'in thrall'? Unquestionably. Always been enthralled by thraldom. And defo always up to my neck in something 'unusual'.

@nomadpossum @JasperBeech He's up to his neck in it. In thrall. Probably hasn't washed in weeks.

@nomadpossum @Her_Maj_Borg That's hilarious!!! 'Niche, obscure, humorous, hypothetical' - that's me in a (dare I say) nutshell.

@JasperBeech @Her_Maj_Borg You're so deep down the helmet-hole you are AI famous...

@L15per A small tipple!

@JasperBeech You did not partake of the waters?

Well-unearned slice of vegan banana & choc loaf in the pump room, while I mull over the noo cloo... Some nice plants as decoration. #CakeBush

@BarbettiJames Excellent!

@JasperBeech tricked out for everyone's birthday, when men and women, as do horses, all shared just the one, and getting grass-stains, out of one's outfits was more trouble by far than it was worth, danced in their lines at the estival bonfires, tripping the light fantastic, all in good fun.

@BarbettiJames Henge cakes are quite a thing! Worth a google

@JasperBeech (Stone circles were a running theme when I was a kid. Dad'd take me to see them, and explain how the stones had been erected, and snicker at the very idea they were sophisticated astrological calendars. So, e.g. I had a Tim Tam Henge birthday cake for my sixth birthday).

@nomadpossum @Her_Maj_Borg That sounds like an eerie bit of foreshadowing...

@Her_Maj_Borg @JasperBeech I suspect that the good professor will stand in the centre circle, the missing Helmet will descend on his noggin and all that will remain is a trail of gingernut bikkie crumbs.

@Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum 'Obsessed' is a very strong word, BQ, for what I'd argue is actually just a mild fixation.

@nomadpossum @JasperBeech I do like that. The Helmet needs a head. Just like the ring. Now we know why he is obsessed with it!

@BarbettiJames @Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum Great summer solstice programme! Hopefully not the wrong rites.

@Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum @JasperBeech Bang-up summer solstice social calendar. Athletics Carnivals. Chariot races. Dance parties. Lots of barley beer & bands & chanting. Don't forget, the River Kennet is close by. Handy for boat races, midnight skinny-dipping, and cleaning up the worst of the mess, the morning after.

@BarbettiJames @Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum I do love an equinox. Everything in balance. But maybe I'm just unbalanced...

@Her_Maj_Borg @nomadpossum @JasperBeech Though, come to think of it, the vernal equinox get-togethers were probably even more fun. They'd have been much more "Ode to Spring" than "Rite of Spring", if I'd been the party planner (oops, make that the Senior Druid).

@nomadpossum @BarbettiJames @Her_Maj_Borg I wonder if we could use 'henge' as a verb too? Henge that helmet!

@BarbettiJames @Her_Maj_Borg @JasperBeech Poster slogan 'Get your Helmet on at the Henge'.

@Her_Maj_Borg @BarbettiJames @nomadpossum Strangely, apple hot-cross buns are the future!

@BarbettiJames @nomadpossum @JasperBeech Apple cider. Hot buns. I'm in!

@nomadpossum Wow. Hopefully the snow will slow Xerxes up a bit.

@JasperBeech Anglia always looks lovely in sunshine. We have snow around the Athens mountains today!

A few more shots from sunny Leamington Spa... #SpaForTheCourse

@nomadpossum You're a saint!

@JasperBeech I Confess I must go for April 3rd.

@nomadpossum Very nice, absolutely. But the photos are maybe a TEENSY bit flattering tbh. Not bad, though.

@JasperBeech How pretty!

@nomadpossum Yep!!! What we in the trade call 'big effers'!!!

@JasperBeech I think is them there stones?

@nomadpossum By Jingo, I think you may have it! I'll need to have a rummage round the Cove! But when???

@JasperBeech Oh ffs COVE!!

@nomadpossum Coven! That could be it... Any features at Avebury that might (nearly) fit the bill?

@JasperBeech That's got me stumped. Crossroads? Covens? I'll get it....(squints and makes thinking sounds).