Hello, June! Here’s my May #bgstats update and highlights:
- Picked up #TooManyBones from a FLGS sale, having a grand time rolling dice and defeating baddies!
- Introduced to Mexica, Mosaic, and Rise & Fall by my group (#Mexica’s my fave among those)
- Finally defeated solo challenge 1 of #HadriansWall
- Trampled in 4 of 5 plays in #Wingspan by my partner (who claimed our all time high score of 150 this month!)
- Entered Chapter 2 of #ArkhamHorrorLCG…

#boardgames #bgstatsapp #soloboardgames

Sycamore Gap Tree Commission Awarded to Multimedia Arts Collective

A multimedia arts collective won the commission for the new Sycamore Gap artwork. Learn how this interactive project will honor the famous landmark.

#sycamoregap, #northumberland, #publicart, #artcommission, #hadrianswall

https://newsletter.tf/sycamore-gap-art-commission-may-2026/

A new interactive art project was chosen for the Sycamore Gap site after a public vote. This replaces the famous tree lost in 2023 with a digital experience.

#sycamoregap, #northumberland, #publicart, #artcommission, #hadrianswall
https://newsletter.tf/sycamore-gap-art-commission-may-2026/

Stage two of #hadrianswall today, from Burgh-by-Samds to central Carlisle.

Not as hot today. Mainly walking down lanes around quality sheep pasture along the banks of The Eden, then through a green corridor through Carlisle's industrial hinterland into a municipal park. The agricultural land was rather like parts of South Cambridgeshire. Lambs congregating in nursery clusters here, fighting and playing in the long grass by fences, as the ewes rest. It's so odd how completely ewes lose the vitality of lambs.

The park is called Bitts Park, which I fancifully like to think is named after Mister Bitt, a famously bad dish washer.

Finished The Monk. Started Gravity's Rainbow. No more Hadrian's wall for a few weeks.

First bit of our #hadrianswall walk today, me and kid: Bowness on #Solway to Burgh by Sands.

Sort of esturine, heathy landscape, and incredibly hot, still, flat, and silent. Could easily have been near Ventnor or The Lizzard, not the Scottish border.

Lots of sheep with lambs in the shade of hawthorn, and cows wallowing in estuary pools.

Amused by the tenacity with which Burgh holds onto its Edward I connection, being: on passing a nearby bog on his way to somewhere else, he died of an infectious disease. He was probably unaware of even the village's existence!

Hadrian’s Wall Path: "an unbroken 135 km (84 mile) signposted footpath stretching from coast-to-coast across England."
https://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/discover-explore/things-to-do/get-active-outdoors/national-trails/hadrians-wall/

#SolarPunkSunday #NationalTrails #HadriansWallPath #HadriansWall #WorldHeritageSites #Walks #UK #NorthumberlandNationalPark #Northumberland #NationalParks

A Hadrian’s Wall souvenir from 2nd century CE is found in Spain.

Researchers from the CSIC and the National Archaeological Museum have published a study of the ‘Berlanga cup’, an exceptional Roman piece from the 2nd century CE made in Britain and found in Soria.

It’s the only one of its kind with data from the eastern flank of Hadrian’s Wall.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260426-a-hadrians-wall-souvenir-from-2nd-century-ce-is-found-in-spain?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Spain #HadriansWall #Archaeology #History #UK #BerlangaCup #RomanEmpire

Vindolanda

Ever thought history was all sewn up? Vindolanda will put you right on that.

I have never had much time for museums. My attention wanders, especially when herding the young scion at full tilt through tourist traps. But Vindolanda stopped me in my tracks.

What makes it work is simple: the ruins and the finds sit together. You see the thing, then you see where it came fro ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/16/vindolanda/

#HadriansWall #Northumberland #history #Roman