Tenement House Cafė #,Glasgow #cafe #photography #interiors #coffee #coffeetime

The Tall Ship Glenlee #Glasgow #photography #ships #Glenlee #maritime #history

#Glasgow 2025 in black and white is like a window into its past #photography #history #architecture #streetphotography

This year's @bloodyscotland.bsky.social was as inspiring as ever - packed with insightful events for readers and writers alike, award winners, and simply a brilliant weekend of books and fun! lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/c... #BloodyScotland2025 #booksky #Scotland #crimefiction #writing

Fantastic first day of @bloodyscotland.bsky.social yesterday and up early for day two! Look at this list of amazing #authors 📚🎉 bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/ (online option here bloodyscotland.com/watch/) #BloodyScotland2025 #BloodyScotland #booksky #crimefiction

Here we goooo again, it's @bloodyscotland.bsky.social time! 😅📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BloodyScotland #BloodyScotland2025 #booksky

Always look for the sunflowers in your life 🌻🌻🌻 #motivation #inspiration #sunflowers #flowers

Announcing our McIlvanney Prize finalists: @tariqashkanani.bsky.social - The Midnight King @liammcilvanney.bsky.social - The Good Father @callummcsorley.bsky.social - Paperboy @damedenisemina.bsky.social - The Good Liar @ianrankin1.bsky.social - Midnight and Blue Winner revealed next Friday! 👏👏👏

Good tip @bloodyscotland.bsky.social and may I add, bring your own reusable coffee cup as you'll definitely get a few cuppas in between all the fascinating author events! #BloodyScotland2025 #booksky #crimefiction

Incredibly saddened to hear about the fatal derailment of the iconic Glória Funicular in #Lisbon. I've been on it several times and walk up and down that steep street (17% gradient) daily every June. Such a tragic loss of lives, my thoughts are with all affected 💔🇵🇹 #Lisboa

Why The Irish Dance That Way 😂💃🎉 youtu.be/yhfPQOZUUQg?... #Ireland #Irish #Irishdancing #speirgorm

I just found this beautiful Albanian song I first heard when I was travelling on a minibus around #Albania in 2023, it brings back so many memories, the lovely humorous locals, horse riding in the mountains, walking along cobbles streets... #Shqipëria #folkmusic #interrail youtu.be/ykr0_72zQYs?...

It's nearly time for @bloodyscotland.bsky.social again and here is my contribution to the preview blog tour, too many great events to choose from as usual!📚🎉 @fionabrownlee.bsky.social lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/blo…#BloodyScotland20252#BloodyScotlandn#bookskyk#crimefictiono#amreadingng

Seaside vibes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scotland #photography #beach #Ayr #Ayrshire #sunshine #summer #bankholiday

Delighted to be part of the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social blog tour again, my event tips will be coming up on 26 August, check out all the other bloggers below, too 📚🎉 #BloodyScotland #BloodyScotland2025 #crimefiction #booksky

Had a fun day out at Edinburgh Fringe this week! (and yes, one of the shows had an actual dog in it, well, sort of 😅🐕💖) lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/g... #Edinburgh #EdinburghFringe #comedy #theatre #review #Fringe

📣 Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk 🌿🏦 📆 Sat 23rd Aug 10am-2.30pm ~ book here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen... Explore the Southside's manicured & wilder fringes on our guided trail... history, heritage & nature galore with panoramic views of #Glasgow en route 🌳🪿🌺 👣 ⛅

It's hard to describe the incredible experience that is Belfast Tradfest in just a few paragraphs, but one thing is for sure: I'll be back next year! 🎻💃🎉 lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/w... #irishmusic #belfast #northernireland #ireland #discoverni #photography #festivalreview

After all the excitement of Belfast tradfest (blog soon!), was feeling ill most of the week, but decided to go to an amazing Ethiopian tea ceremony today, part of Govanhill festival, lovely people and delicious coffee and food ☕🇪🇹😋🙏

Have you always wanted to learn some useful Scottish expressions, today's the perfect day for it, enjoy! 🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 youtu.be/3pbTmXsfiYk?... #Scotland #Scottish

I love Finnie! 🦄 #Glasgow2026 #Glasgow #Finnie youtu.be/qHo-ijA-L74?...

Coo time 😍 #coosday #cows #Glasgow #Scotland

The new piece by SMUG (Sam Bates, current solo show at Grateful Gallery in Glasgow) is already stunning and coming along nicely already know it'll be one of my new favourites, such a huge canvas, too! #Glasgow #streetart #streetartist

Tell me you're in Glasgow without telling me you're in Glasgow 😅 #Glasgow #trafficcone #Scotland

Ceilidh time at Merchant City Festival in Glasgow, so much fun! 🎻🎉 #Glasgow #Scotland #artsfestival #livemusic #festival #ceili #dancing

Surrounded by Belgian Surge Festival artists and their audience 🤣 *sound on* #Glasgow #Scotland #artsfestival #livemusic #festival

Merchant City Festival & Surge Festival are on all weekend in Glasgow, check out the mostly free programme www.glasgowlife.org.uk/merchant-cit... #Glasgow #Scotland #artsfestival #livemusic #festival

Find out what I thought of my first visit to Kelburn Garden Party festival 🎸🎉 #musicfestival #livemusic #Kelburn #KelburnGardenParty #Scotland #review lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/m...

Unexpected hedgerow bounty 🍓 #Glasgow #raspberries #berries #PollokPark #walking

Met a cat 😻 #cats #catsofbluesky #gingercat

Summer roses #flowers #roses #bloomscrolling #photography

Only posting this as Bluesky folks seem to prefer flowers to dancing, so here you go 😜🌹 #flowers #roses #notadancingvideo #Edinburgh #photography

So much fun at Edinburgh Festival Carnival yesterday with the castle as the backdrop and sunshine all day 🤩🎉 #Edinburgh #Scotland #sunshine #dancing

Amazing weather for Edinburgh Festival Carnival yesterday #photography #Edinburgh #Scotland #dancing #carnival #parade

While TRNSMT is on in Glasgow Green, this was the scene during my daily walk this morning. Love living in a city where you have ALL the choices 😀🌳🦌🎸🎉 #Glasgow #PollokPark #deer #wildlife #walking #heatwave

Hurrah! The car barriers in Pollok Park are working 🎉 Of course there's also lots of illegal parking... 🤷‍♀️ #Glasgow #PollokPark #parking #heatwave #Scotland

Was researching Portuguese-speaking music and came across this amazing podcast: Afropop Worldwide. Don't be put off by the 'pop' part, they cover lots of genres and it's a goldmine for expanding your listening repertoire 🎸🎉 #music #worldmusic

Why so expensive for pressing a button? AI 'translations' are already free, but writing a book (and translation IS writing) is a creative act that requires a human brain, so good luck with that. Ultimately it's up to readers to buy real books, not automated garbage. #xl8 #booksky #translators

About half of the symptoms of the new covid strain are incredibly similar to how you feel after a really great weekend at an outdoor music festival 😂

From a book perspective, and as someone who programmes panels and festivals, it's not complicated to ensure gender balance everywhere, most of the best festivals do. If your panels or events are all male, now might be a very good time to ask yourself why.....

Latest column in the Sunday Times was about the dire representation of women (or indeed anyone who isn't a man) on most Irish music festival bills - more here and in my Insta stories www.instagram.com/p/DLxHjVnte2...

THIS is why I love festivals! This boy befriended these guys in the toilet queue, then partied with them (dad looking on) and the audience kept getting the ball back to him, so he could shoot it. Whenever I saw him, he was in the thick of things having the time of his life, just brilliant! 🤩🙏

Short vid of the hugely popular 1 am Sofia Kourtesis #rave at #KelburnGardenParty, there are so many stages, it's like visiting a dozen night clubs in one night 🎉 (while the horses, sheep and chickens are stoically waiting for Monday to come around...) #Scotland #musicfestival #dj #techno

Just a choir (Phoenix Choir from Edinburgh) singing at the bottom of a Scottish waterfall 🎉 #KelburnGardenParty #Scotland #waterfall #choir #musicfestival

POV: You're at the front of the Viewpoint stage at Kelburn Garden Party dancing to the Moroccan gnawa rhythms of Electric Jalabá (one of my top finds last weekend) #KelburnGardenParty #livemusic #musicfestival #Scotland

Just back from Kelburn Garden Party where you can not only swim in a waterfall, but also dance with the happiest dinosaurs in Scotland 😁🎉🦖🦕 #KelburnGardenParty #Scotland #musicfestival #dinosaurs #dancing

Skerryvore sunset show in Pitlochry, hard to beat! 🎻🤩🎉 #Skerryvore #livemusic #bagpipes #Scottishmusic #Scotland

Amazing! 🤩🎉🐇 seeing @hemmusic.bsky.social live again one day is top of my bucket list 🤞🙏🎸

Another beautiful Lisbon street 🇵🇹 #Lisboa #Portugal #architecture #Lisbon #photography

Will be another amazing edition! Easily done as a day trip from #Glasgow or #Edinburgh or stay for the whole weekend 📚🎉 #BloodyScotland #Stirling