Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

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I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC

A seal looking straight at the camera from the sea, off Ramsey Island, Wales
An old colour picture postcard showing the Exeter University Streatham campus, all brick buildings on a sloping hillside, with trees and blue skies
An old colour picture postcard showing brick neo-Georgian college buildings set in parkland. Printed non the card in white is St Mary's College, Durham University, with the Univesity's crest
A pack of Cesar dog food; printed on the cardboard wrapper (and circled in red) is "Not for EU"
A pale-skinned palm, with a white mark on the heel of the thumb circled in red
An old colour picture postcard with a view of a university campus in the evening, purple shadows and lights in concrete and glass buildings
An old colour picture postcard showing 1960s and 1970s brick buildings set behind trees, on undulating grass
Danger Mouse, from the 1980s British cartoon
Blackberries looking luscious
An old colour picture postcard showing a dramatic view of a concrete campus at night, all yellows and red and green light
A statute of Gerald of Wales - monk, historian, fibber and boaster
An old colour picture postcard showing a medieval castle from inside the courtyard; its in good repaid, and is in fact a college building
Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog, tucked under a quilt, asleep
Bertie Bassett, the Licquorice Allsorts man
Two slugs - one very much smaller than the other - on basil growing outside
An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial view of a harbour with a few industrial type buildings around it. The ground is red and muddy, it looks deserted.
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of a man in academic dress harnessed to a personal balloon, floating above a town. Other individuals with balloons or flying machines can also be seen, much smaller. The artist is Len Owen, the card is entitled The Aeroprog
An old colour picture postcard showing 1960s college buildings by a lush-green lake
A picture of a man playing bagpipes on the ice with a penguin. The caption reads: "Piper Kerr (right) a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"
BBC Screengrab reading: "William Clouston is leader of the Social Democratic Party. Announcing his candidacy on X, external, he said: "I think it's wrong that the major parties are boycotting this election, because the people of Clacton deserve a better choice." The party has a range of policies including a pledge to renationalise utilities, end mass migration, withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and deport illegal arrivals to the country."
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a Victorian brick college building, slightly Dutch looking. Printed at the foot of the card is West Ham Technical College
An old colour picture postcard showing a view down onto the river Wear, with a rowing boat, trees, houses, a proper bridge with big arches, and some people on a concrete terrace
My son and the friend he is with on this big weekend adventure have spent a long time discussing whose parent tells the worst jokes: me or said friend's dad. They each think they are suffering the MOST. I texted that only a German butcher dad could be the wurst.
Freya, a small brown and white dog, sitting in a beach hut
A painting of flowers, used as a phone lock-screen
A view over a bay, Swansea to the left, Aberavon over the water, Mumbles behind; blue sea and sky
A web warning notice - sorry,. this seems to be taking a while
BBC News snippet: "Infantino 'wrong man' to lead FIFA - Burnham"
An old colour picture postcard showing people lounging around an open-air concrete amphitheatre set amongst modernist concrete buildings
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a victorian brick college buiding, all stripy brickwork and towers and curlique details
Bros, the Ur-boy-band band
The Band Bros
"Suffolk wildfire not yet under control, fire service says, but no risk to nearby nuclear plant"
The entrance to Lovely Professional University, India (which is absolutely a real place and a real thing and this is not AI)
A monochrome picture postcard of 1960s modernist college buildings around a lake
Old and modern University buildings on a postcard; the image also has various women students wearing red academic gowns
An old monochrome picture postcard showing five views of very similar looking buildings - printed in the middle is Edge Hill Training College, Ormskirk
The Law of Higher Education by Farrington and Palfreyman
An old colour picture postcard showing concrete college buildings, one high rise, with lawns and beautiful colourful flowerbeds
An old monochrome picture postcard showing ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the College of Art, Edinburgh, by the then Prince of Wales, the future King George V The card shows royals and flunkeys posed around a stone, with behatted and besuited crowds watching on
Mark Hughes
A view from a car windscreen, raindrops blurring the view of a carpark sign
An old monochrome picture postcard showing ivy-clad college buildings in manicured lawns with nice trees
Screengrab from the BBC football website showing the first fixture of the new season: Sheffield Wednesday v Bolton in the League Cup, Saturday 8 August at 3pm
An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing a neo-classical gateway in front of a domed tower. Printed at the foot of the card is Edinburgh University from the Quadrangle
Schubert Dip by EMF
A sign reading "No! I am not Jeremy Bentham"
An old tinted picture postcard showing a victorian gothic college building
A Spitfire aeroplane seen banking, the sun catching its wings
An old colour picture postcard showing minarets of a mosque at sunrise or sunset
A woman standing in a garden Captioned: intense heat not normally a problem in Yorkshire
A sunflower
Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog
Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog, sleeping on a white fleecy blanket
A beach, blue cloudy skies, golden sand, wrack-covered rocks
A bowl of tomatoes, red and orange, salad and cherry
A BBC news headline - Kemi Badenoch 'worried' about Welsh government demands for more powers
Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog standing in the shade under a tree
Two ripe figs on a place mat
A notification from the Co-op app: I've won 20p off