Happy New Year 🎊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

FIFA peace prize? FIFA gie ye the boak! 😡

Woo hoo! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Come on Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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"We don’t need to raise school-ready children. We need to raise life-ready ones." "...play builds better brains than worksheets do in those early years." www.commonweal.scot/articles/let...

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No surprise that the EBC would give out wrong info!

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"She is proof that an inheritance of privilege can, and must, be transformed into a legacy of justice and genuine hope."

Which other countries will follow suit? colombiareports.com/global-sumud...

This! 👇 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

An "administration-compliant" show... m.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

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True story! 👇😁

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"This is not about food scarcity There is food. It's being withheld This isn’t famine. It's siege warfare This isn’t tragedy. It's cruelty This is not a natural disaster. It's a choice They are being starved with full knowledge of the international community." www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-it-fe...

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Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Haver' - to speak nonsense. 'Havers' - nonsense, foolish talk. As in, "Och, away an' stop yer haverin'!" - "Stop speaking nonsense!"

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Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Bridie' or 'Forfar Bridie' - a semicircular meat pastry, filled with meat, onions and seasoning 😋 😋 The Bridie originated in Forfar, in the early part of the 19th century.

Je vous souhaite une très bonne Fête National 🇫🇷 🥳

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Beastie' - an insect, a creepy-crawly.

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Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Shackle' - the wrist. 'Shackle-bane' - the wrist bone.

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Remembering the 167 men who lost their lives on Piper Alpha 😢

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Papingo' - a parrot. Also, a wooden representation of a parrot, fixed on a pole and used as a target in archery; a contest to shoot this down (especially relating to one held at Kilwinning in Ayrshire).

Not overly amused by present day politics, but at least they are an independent country. #WhyNotScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #IndependenceIsNormal

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Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Pend' - an arch, vault; the arch of a bridge, gateway or the like; a vaulted gateway. Such as this one in St Andrews.

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Unthirlit' - not enslaved/subjugated (to another). Today, in 1314, Robert the Bruce led the Scots army to victory against Edward 2nd's English army. As part of the First War of Scottish Independence, the victory helped to ensure Scotland was eventually unthirlit to England.

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Lade' - a water channel, especially one conveying water to a mill-wheel, a millstream.

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Bawbee' - a Scottish sixpence. After 1707 the Pound Scots was phased out, and in Scotland the term "bawbee" took on the meaning of a halfpenny. The picture is of a bawbee (1542-1558) from the time of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Nickie-tams' - straps, or string, tied by farmworkers over trousers, below the knee, to keep the legs clear of soil & dust blowing up, or to relieve the weight of mud at the ankles. The men at each end of the photo are wearing nickie-tams (photo National Museums Scotland).

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Moothie' - mouth organ/harmonica.

Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Bannock' - a round, flat, thickish cake of oatmeal, barley, pease or flour, baked on a girdle.

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Scots word of the day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'Peevers' - the game of hopscotch. 'Peever' - the stone used for playing peevers. 'Peever bed' or 'Beds' - the spaces chalked on the pavement for the playing of the game.