Finally got off of my backside and posted some new stuff. Four new windmill pictures and the results of my "Wizard's Desk" project. Still to come is my "Year on the Beacon" project which finishes next month with a picture for March.

For those who are interested, the Wizard's Desk pictures contain :-

Scott's Poetical Works, Volumes I, II and III (1857)
Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray and Smollett (1855)
Butler's Poetical Works, Volumes I and II (1854)
Wyatt's Poetical Works (1858)
Poetical Works of Shakespear and Surrey (1856)
Clarrissa Marlowe (1818)
The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning (1911)
The Golden Centipede, Louise Gerald (1919)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1824)
The Inferno of Dante Aligheri (1900)
The Purgatorio of Dante Aligheri (1903)
The Paradiso of Dante Aligheri (1900)
The Poetical Works of Tennyson (1904)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1900)
Tristain in Brittany (1929)
Anderson's Fairy Tales
Routledge's Ready Reckoner (1923)
The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey, 26 small children killed in nasty ways - "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil, assaulted by bears..."

A replica of a Greek owl figurine
An replica Inuit hawk statuette
A Chinese bronze leopard figurine
A coiled dragon netsuki

A jar of Red Rooster chillis - very hot!
A jar of mustard seed
A jar of peppercorns
A large jar of plum liquor which is very, very tasty and deceptively strong!.

A large wrought iron candlestand
A 3rd century AD Roman oil lamp
A 2nd century BC Persian oil lamp
A Trappist Ale stoneware bottle with a candle stuffed in it
A crazed glass candle bowl
A horn lantern
A room scenter
A candle snuffer

An early Victorian ink bottle, with ink and a homemade quill pen
A late Victorian ink bottle
A glass vase
Assorted Victorian poison and medicine bottles
A pair of Spanish glass shampoo bottles borrowed from my mum
An African Pot from a wierd shit shop
An Ikea marble bowl full of fake blood.
A Muji wooden rice bowl full of pinecones
A leather pouch full of runestones
A bag of beans
A large wooden box
A medium wooden box full of Roman coins
A small Indian ivory box that used to belong to my Grandad
A handtooled leather belt pouch with a running wolf motif

A 1751 map of the British Isles
An advert for the English Civil War Society
Scrolls made from old printer paper and tied up with ribbon
A Ryman's notebook

A piece of bogwood from a Canadian marsh
Assorted fossils both found and bought
A fox's skull
A Redwood pinecone
A quartz sphere - it glows blue!
A large ebony sphere
A small amount of Iron Pyrites

A magnifying glass
A knife
A set of Jeweller's scales
A cube glass paperweight
A pair of draughtsman's calipers
A Gallilean Thermometer
A Hnefatafl gaming board and pieces (If you've ever read Terry Pratchett's "Thud!", you'll know the game)
A replica Norman longsword
A Venetian mask
A velvet cloak
A replica 16th century globe

A 17th century key
Three Neolithic stone scrapers
Four 17th century musket balls
A small 17th century cannonball from the Siege of Basing House
Four 16th century crotal bells
A Shirehorse horseshoe
A shard of 1st century AD Romano-British pottery

A bureau and a chair that belonged to my great grandparents

And finally, a set of polyhedral dice.