The extremely low key Halloween theme at the Transylvania Cafe on Victoria Rd Glasgow 🤭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Govan Stones at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow, an amazing place of Scottish history, archaeology & the Vikings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 If you’ve not been it’s a must visit 😊

Wee Seumas the Schnauzer is a heat seeking sunpuddler 😀

A fantastic article by @peatworrier.bsky.social on the return of the Political dinosaurs

A wonderful visit to the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 my first sighting of the back of the Lewis chess pieces in their new display case, wonderous😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

& over to Mr Sarwar for his comments on Grangemouth…

It’s the last day of January, thank goodness 😊

Happy Burn’s Night everyone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 painting by Ross Muir

Nothing says Happy New Year 2025 quite like a bag piping monkey grotesque 😊

Christmas Eve, my favourite day of the year, a fork supper of home made lentil soup (not easy with a fork) 😜 with nibbles 😀🎄

Hope you’ve all posted your letters to Santa 😊

Shout out to #IndyClan in Glasgow. You don't have to be lonely or hungry or cold or sad and needing some human connection. @mcchuills.bsky.social has your back. Worth sharing widely.

The lights of the Christmas are on 😊🎄

This photograph from the ‘90s of ‘The Running Man’ appeared on my photo album timeline today😊 The talk driftwood kinetic sculpture was created by an art team from ‘Itsabitsa’ placed deep within an atmospheric wood in Ormsary Mid Argyll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The same gargoyle was captured along with a model by the longtime Blue Note photographer Reid Miles in 1964.(The effects of several decades of pollution are evident by comparison!..) More about Miles here, if you’re interested. Thx for posting! arie.ls/2015/the-ico...

I particularly liked when even Santa’s nose turned red with the booze 😀🎄

I do love a gargoyle, sticking his tongue out at the passers-by beneath, et voila Un gargouille de Notre-Dame 🇫🇷

Well that’s the Christmas headgear sorted 😀🎄

The Transylvania shop on Victoria Rd in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 brings good cheer 🎄& very understated 😀

Happy Schnativity on this 1st day of Advent 😊🎄#Schnauzers

Instead of an advent calendar this year, I’m going to guzzle one of these Belgian festive delights with a coffee 😊

Christmas comes to Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎄lovely

This daft medieval character reminded me of my father’s best friend’s party piece at Hogmanay ‘I ain’t got no body’ 😀

On this chilly winter’s night in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 keema pie for tea 😊

A needle felted Schnauzer portrait #DogsofBluesky

There is a lovely wee gift shop in Battlefield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿called 28 Langside filled with lovely goodies Every year as Christmas approaches they sell this wonderful Marseille soap that smells of gingerbread & spices

What a glorious, super chilly Northern European day in Glasgow today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 which is beginning to get beautifully tarted up for Christmas, here’s a ‘fairytale’ image of George Square from 2023 😊

As is the requirement in mid November, the mince pie taste test begins. I must say these amaretto mince pies from Lidl are quite delicious, crisp pastry, deliciously fruity 😋

An excellent article by @peatworrier.bsky.social 👇

For those of us who have failed to pre soak fruit for Xmas, what a brilliant idea in Lidl 😊🎂

It’s coffee time & a wee browse through my new cookbook by Nadia Caterina Munno & it’s jam packed full of wonderful looking & sounding recipes 😊🇮🇹

If you find yourself in search of a crab beignet & langoustines in the Southside of Glasgow, look no further than ‘Skips’ in Battlefield 😊🦞

Looking forward to reading ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ by Stella Gibbons for the first book of my book group of 2025 😊

Foix in thé Ariège 🇫🇷 an idyll & the best pain de Noix from a wood fired oven 😊

A good friend told me that when you reach the half way point on a walk, you must walk around something to the change direction of travel, this was by turning point today🇫🇷

My first post on this site as a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 must be my favourite image of a Haggis hunt circa 1900’s 😀