LJ Trafford
@TraffordLj
I write about Romans. A lot. Including Sex & Sexuality in Ancient Rome & Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors Creator of #phallusthursday Not dead #Parkinsons
The audio book version of Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome is out now and it is MARVELLOUS. I love the narrators' world weary tone, as if she's got a whole catalogue of worse stories which she may or may not divulge. #ancientrome #sexinrome #nero #morals audible.co.uk/ac/Sex-and-Sex…
Of course, we have normal holidays. We're walking alpacas and looking at lavender tomorrow.
They're filming a new series of Father Brown in the village! Quite tempted to wear 1959s clothes and see if I can slip my way into the background as an extra.
To Blockley!
The house of French author Victor Hugo in Le Marais, Paris
It can take generations to set up farms that survive the vicissitudes of weather and war. It takes a single government, fired with resentment and unable to imagine a time when food runs scarce, to destroy them. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
Ancient Egyptian gold snake ring, crafted during the early Ptolemaic period (332-330 BC). Collection: © TimeLine Auctions.
Well done to @UKLabour for their sterling work on convincing folk that disability benefits are an afront to 'working people' . The politics of envy is in full flow. Why should they get money I don't? You are wealthy my friend, you have good health enjoy it, bask in it.
A death wish often hides a life wish: change this pain, change this environment, change this relationship, change something.
Mr LJ told the Boys about how the Cotswolds Lavender farm has 35 different varieties of Lavender on display in a field. Amazingly, 14 and 12yo boys don't want to go.
Off on my Cotswolds holiday tomorrow.
Splendida testa di amazzone e di una graziosa menade danzante... Musei Capitolini #Roma 🤍
🪷 #PhallusThursday: Winged #fascinus poly-phallic emblem to ward off evil from a house and allow in only "neighbors and friends" as the Greek inscription says. 1st Century AD. 🪷
Ceiling tile with portrait of a man & the Greek inscription: "Heliodoros, an Actuarius." In the Late Roman Empire, the actuarius was an official charged with the distribution of wages & provisions to the Roman military. Clay painted plaster c.200–256 AD from Dura-Europos, Syria
Denarius depicting Augustus with laureate (obverse) and a statue of him holding a spear and parazonium (reverse). Roman, 29-27 BC, Numismatic Museum.
Ancient silver coin from Knossos showing the Labyrinth, c. 300-270 BCE; diameter 26 mm; weight 10.8 g, Knossos © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
House of the Dioscuri, Pompei. This Roman-era house, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and rediscovered during the archaeological excavations, is one of the best preserved and beautifully decorated residences in the city.
There is such a thing as hybrid working where you committ to going into the office like once a week and if you want to go in more you can do. The working from home shit, as Kirstie calls it hit me just right. If it hadn't become a thing this I'd be on benefits.
This working from home SHIT has to stop, it’s destroying mental health for millions of young people, and forcing many others to spend far more on housing just for the extra office space. It may suit middle class, middle aged, middle management, it does not suit most young people.