This happened exactly six years ago. Never found out what it was, but it's a handy little kitchen knife: I looked up at the skylight in my study which is at the end of the garden just now and saw this... Knife-throwing competition ? Dropped by a magpie? Threat? A sign?

Portrait of Fani the painter sitting with one knee bent up for steadying the page, dipping the brush or pen in a small ceramic bottle and wearing pince-nez spectacles. Safavid dynasty Isfahan, c. 1590-1610 (British Museum)

Bag, of embroidered linen, made in Britain, 1675-1700. It once had a drawstring. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

5th Sunday in Lent: Market Scene with Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery Pieter Aertsen, b. 1508 (National Museum of Sweden)

26 Feb 1401: William Sawtre(y) Lollard priest ceremonially stripped of priestly orders at St. Paul's #London #otd - his offences being expounded by the Archbishop of #Canterbury in #English. Burnt at Smithfield in early March, possibly the 2nd.

6 Feb 1536: Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of #Canterbury begins a series of weekly sermons at Paul's Cross #London #otd - mainly about the Pope as Antichrist (NPG)

Peonies from the 'Nassau Florilegium' - a manuscript florilegium compiled between c. 1650 and 1670 by Johann Jakob Walther. (V&A, London)

Cast silver medal, Gianpaolo Poggini, 1560. A female figure of the Indies, holding a globe, moving towards 3 Spanish ships. To right, a group of figures from the New World and a llama, laden with silver bars, look on. Bust of Philip II. (British Museum)

5 Nov 1605: Guy or Guido Fawkes is arrested #otd

27 Oct 1633: Mary Barrett m. William Dyer at St. Martin-in-the-Fields #London #otd On 1 June 1660 as Mary Dyer she was executed by hanging at #Boston Massachusetts for being a Quaker