Glad this week has come to a close, its been like a roller coaster with emotions. Looking forward to getting away in Louise & reconnecting with nature. Nature has its own rhythm & if you become in tune with it, it can become quite therapeutic. Have a great weekend, keep safe & share your smiles 💜🚐 x

Beside the North wall, at the north east corner of Housesteads Roman Fort. Looking east along the line of Hadrian's Wall mile 36. #harianswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday

Frida Kahlo...with her pet hawk, 1939 (photo by N. Muray) #womensart

Love this trompe-l'œil style mural on the ground floor of an exposed tenement gable in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #streetart #mural #linthouse #govan #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #clydetunnel

🏆 EUROPEAN RECORD BREAKER! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Eilish McColgan who has just only gone and broke the Women’s 10KM European record in Valencia at a time of 30:07 - just SEVEN DAYS after the record was last broken!

Still snowbound here - so got out by snow shoeing up Tom an Uird. Ridiculously soft powder so very exhausting!

In 2007 Douglas Alexander said the only way to achieve Scottish independence was for the SNP to win a majority in a Holyrood election and then a majority in an Indyref. This could come back to haunt the new Scottish Secretary. He won't want this retweeted.👇 www.facebook.com/share/v/1KUJ...

SNHS is the BEST in the world in my opinion,my sister was 46 years a Nurse,they never retire,it's a vocation,it's a DIFFERENT BREED OF HUMAN BEING,that care for us ALL,with one hand tied behind their backs,THANK YOU ALL SNHS🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 STAFF,PLEASE KNOW YOU MATTER,have a great Xmas and New year,THANK YOU🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Are Scots the most indoor folk in Europe? Daytrippers. Next to no family weekend huts. Priced out of overnight stays. Lost family links to the land. Why no outrage? Chuffed to be at Blether of Books Nov 2 Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. tinyurl.com/bdfcfev2

A couple of new hills for me today. Ones I can see from home and yet had never climbed - Millstone Cairn and Creag nan Leachda....plus a climb up Creag Loisgte. No real plan, just wandering about and walking wherever looked interesting 🙂

Good news for rail users in Scotland, from tomorrow, the Scottish Government has scrapped peak rail fares. Every little helps.

Scotland will be free… and the values of Sweden are a model for us to follow

*Very* brief glimpse of an Otter on the River Kelvin in Glasgow, just after midday yesterday.

A fantastic time last weekend with Red Rope pals, based in Elphin. Love this part of Scotland - and it was looking particularly lovely with the bonnie blooming heather. @redropescot.bsky.social

Who knew that squirrel’s love satsuma!

I could power the national grid with that right now.

Any chance we could stop indulging in the not necessary and focus our energy on issues that matter to people in Scotland?

I was looking at the fountain a couple of weeks ago and it's in a bad state again - couple of heads missing from the smaller figures around the bottom, and flaking of the stone at the base. Definitely needs some attention before winter.

Donegal, Ireland.

Andy Scott's statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh on Argyle Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow glowing golden in last rays of this evening's setting sun. #glasgow #statue #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #anderston #publicart #eveninglight

Now with link to judgment, just published today. What did the judge decide? Click on the link at the top of the blog post. #NotSecretCourt

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

Really enjoyed a walk at Loch Leven yesterday, used to visit daily when I worked in Milnathort for @ramblersscotland.bsky.social. It was busy with walkers & cyclists, hard to imagine the path hasn’t always been there. Testament to the hard work of the local path group, landowners, funders.

I met Cleo Laine on a couple of occasions when her daughter, Jacqui Dankworth, was at the Guildhall at the same time as my sister. Calling Cleo a force of nature doesn’t quite cut it; she was phenomenal. And she could sing anything you put in front of her!

Remembering Janey

#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide

Very unsatisfactory article: apparently we don’t need to panic about sea level rise, UN Sec Generally and others are fear mongering about climate migration. Maybe true, but maps and figures are needed to support the argument. theconversation.com/what-danish-...

An amazing woman - thank you Norma Swenson for the pioneering work you did on ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’ & all the feminist activism since www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

'Neighbours' by Avril Paton, 1993. Watercolour on paper, 63 x 66cm.

Nothing illustrates the real need for Scottish independence better than the contemptuous ‘you had your vote’ response from unionists.

Peter Krykant kept the lives being lost to drugs in the public eye & shamed the Scottish gov into action. His van prevented overdoses & and continues to so as, without it, The Thistle wouldn’t exist. It was a privilege to know him. I hope he’s at peace. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/peter-k...

Morning on this beautiful sunny Tuesday. I loved these daffodils giving some colour & softness to the raw landscape of the Scottish hills...Have a great day ☕️ xx

Turning the page: Keeping Scotland's libraries open www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

🏔️ Lochnagar today (for the eleventymillionth time 😆 I exaggerate 🤌 ) AND YET I still love it as much as ever! #lochnagar #hillwalking #walkhighlands #scotland @walkhighlands.co.uk

Phone Box of The Day: Isle of Skye. Pic: Alex Massengale.

The Marsh family is back with an absolute belter — “Puppets on a Kremlin string?”

Lovely humans, I'm training to run a half-marathon for @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social in May! I only started running last year so this is a big challenge for me - but I know the challenge for refugees to rebuild their lives is even greater. All donations/shares would be HUGELY appreciated!! ❤️❤️❤️

Libraries are going to need your love now more than ever so please use them

The first episode of “An t-Eilean” was excellent and this is going to be a dark delicious slice of twisty Tartan Noir. I could see when I talked to Sorcha Groundsell that she was excited about the series. She’s right to be! It’s on the BBC iPlayer!

Happy Feast Day of St Mungo! We want to share this wonderful piece of street furniture which features St Mungo in his most iconic image, as part of the Glasgow Coat of Arms. ✨Lamppost door from the George Ward Collection, on display on our mezzanine level.

Support for independence has boomed since Starmer came to power. The union is now officially living on borrowed time. The Yes movement needs to get its act together right away so it’s ready to seize the moment My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

@glasgowgallivanter.bsky.social Hello Anabel glad you are here. Welcomex

Such a profoundly moving piece on the late, great Edna O’Brien by Stephen Rea. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Please resend if you believe in freedom for Scotland.

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

Worth remembering that for some people, Christmas is absolutely NOT, ‘The most wonderful time of the year’. Please repost this, as there are so many who are struggling while others celebrate.

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

Always find it quite strange - and I do know a few of them - how anyone over, say 18, (outside of playful performative nonsense) can genuinely hate someone who supports a different football team.