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Horatio

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About Me

I am the keeper of archaeology!In time the cosmic ballet will come to embrace all the worlds archaeologists in a hefty orgy of theoretical goodness!(Btw, if you want an add, send a message first)

My Interests

The mighty world of Archaeology!Welsh Rugby rugby rugby rugby rugby, digging holes, rugby, Wales, whales, rugby!

I'd like to meet:

The key master of archaeology

Heroes:

The Flash, Gareth Edwards, Sir Mortimer Wheeler and all the men who wear alicebands, kudos to you!

My Blog

The trouble with Vainikolo

The trouble with Vainikolo.   Great amounts of kudos to England on the coup of Vainikolo. None can doubt the force of nature that this giant Tongan is; his presence in the English backline will t...
Posted by Horatio on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:18:00 PST

The end of the year: the end

So we come to the final rambling of the year. All in all I think this has been a good year. Certainly my career prospects have leapt forward. My ambition of working in the heritage industry have been ...
Posted by Horatio on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:22:00 PST

The end of the year awards: best sandwich

This year and for the third year running, cheese and ham come out the winner. The key to its success has been the use of doorslab thickness cut bread slices, followed by minimal butter. The ham must b...
Posted by Horatio on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:23:00 PST

End of the year awards: best walk

I do do alot of walking, possibly not as much as I should do, but alot. I like it, especially over grass. When I'm in London I target places with grass because I love the feeling of foot on grass. Mos...
Posted by Horatio on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:37:00 PST

The end of year awards: best colour tinsle

 This year I have been mostly decorating with blue tinsle. It looks terrible in the day light, but at night, when it catches the gentle bounce of candle light, it looks supreme. Here's a toast to...
Posted by Horatio on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:03:00 PST

End of the year awards: most unexpected

The award for most unexpected only had two candidates. The first is one which I wont really go into as its still rather formative. More a matter of beginning to look at someone you've known for a whil...
Posted by Horatio on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:47:00 PST

The end of year awards: best wedding

Two weddings to chose from this year, Alf's fine and very grand affair in classy Oxford and Stead's rural offerings in...er...I cant quite remember, somewhere in the middle and slightly to the north. ...
Posted by Horatio on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:25:00 PST

The end of year awards: the most obscure object in the museum

Introducing the end of year awards, an opportunity to recognise a series of obscure and often irrelevant happenings throughout the year of 2007. Our first category is most obscure object in the museu...
Posted by Horatio on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:12:00 PST

Save the PAS: Archaeology

The Portable Antiquities Scheme has been of huge benefit to the development of UK archaeology during the last decade and has been essential to the improving state of relations between archaeology...
Posted by Horatio on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:39:00 PST

What every man should have

What every man should have.   I've been talking to a few people about relationships this week. Some reminiscing has focused on past relationships, some proposals fell on wanting to forge new one...
Posted by Horatio on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:47:00 PST