Jayne Redhead

@Phil_M_Barrett What a shame. Such a fantastic site - one of my favourites xx

The River Seven thwarted out visit to Odda's Chapel (C1086, #AngloSaxon Early #Medieval) , Deerhurst, Tewksbury, though the adjacent Church of St Mary is amazing. My toy drone had a good view. The flood water was getting up to the small hill that the chapel and church are on.

@Michael81086394 Will do.

@Michael81086394 Would you also let us know how you get on tonight Mike? Norman asked if it’s ok for him to give you a ring sometime tomorrow if convenient?

@Jaynered hi Jayne steve just rang me he’s in hospital admitted on Tuesday tried ringing Norman X

@Michael81086394 Poor Steve. So hard to imagine what he’s gone through over the past few years. Thought he’d turned a corner when he moved tbh. Please let him know we’re thinking of him when you speak..& say he’s got to get well for Castleshaw this year! Like you he’s one of our core team 🤩

@Michael81086394 Thanks Mike. Happy New Year to you too. Hope you had a good evening x

@Jaynered Happy New Year to you both X

@Michael81086394 Thanks Mike. Hope you’re both ok and yours have had a great Christmas. Xx

@Jaynered Happy Christmas to you both X

@pete_savin Thanks Pete. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to you too.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas

@karenfthompson Hilarious..and so true. Thank you Karen - have a great Christmas 🎄

Right then here goes... ANNUAL RANT ALERT!! Triggered by adverts and TV chefs😠😠 Christmas Dinner.... I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs... It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!! We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not! Here goes... 1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over it’s cooked! 2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!) What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉. 3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell.... Gravy granules Jamie.... All you need is gravy granules! I ( nor any other woman I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠 4. Vegetables... Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough! 5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉. 6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl! (oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!) 7. Family.... Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace! Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc. And Finally..... NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET DRUNK AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!! Rant over 😂 Merry feckin Christmas!

@NickBrownAuthor Fantastic book - couldn’t put it down and it was wonderful to meet Mandrocles and Aeschylus again 🤩

Pleased to see Amazon are currently re-stocking Sour Hill.

@KirstieMAllsopp @JRLOakley Well said Kirstie 👏

@JRLOakley In my experience it happens only occasionally, there is the old expression “no good deed goes unpunished” which proves you are not the only one, but don’t let one bad apple spoil your generosity of spirit.

Feeling very low tonight. Helped out a family who I’ve known for a while, made homeless. Let them stay, til they found somewhere else. Used my home like a hotel, disrespected it, broke things, emptied my cupboards, and left me with a huge electric bill and a mess. I hate people

@Michael81086394 Thanks Mike. Will look out for it. X

@Jaynered hi jayne just watched the new time team on YouTube it’s on the archaeology dig at cerne Abbas its really good X

Castleshaw Roman Fort: Uncovering the past with Archaeologist Norman Red... youtu.be/xQbRMRh9dp8?si… via @YouTube

@Michael81086394 Good question but we’ve not come across any.

@Jaynered Any grain drying ovens over there 🤔X

@Jaynered hi jayne hope your enjoying your holiday please can you remind Norman to bring my orange pin pointer to the talk on Wednesday I’ll need it for Saturday X

@Michael81086394 Same here - absolutely shedloads of the stuff everywhere..and we get so excited if we find one sherd at Castleshaw 😂

@Jaynered The beach at our hotel loads of Roman pottery must have come down from the old port which is further down the coast didn’t bring any home as you can’t take it out of the country X

Kirk Hammerton, North Yorkshire, is a village hiding a secret. Strip away the buildings with LiDAR there appears to be a 200m #Neolithic #Henge under the village. Geophysics and excavations in some of the unbuilt area seem to confirm the banking and internal ditches. #Archaeology

@NicholasBrook1 Definitely Nick 😁x

@Jaynered Thanks, i will have to do some digging on the beach to warm up for Castleshaw.😂

I think our Spanish Kittie wants to come on holiday with us.❤️

@Michael81086394 You’re welcome Mike and thank you very much for all your hard work and support today - really appreciated. Norman says Jane Darwin has already sent an email out to Federation members which Steve should have had. If not let me know and Norman will resend to him. Xxx

@Jaynered thanks for the sweets jayne can you please ask Norman about the article he wants steve to do about luzley for the news letter when does he want it x