7.40am, it's Tattie Day in Kirriemuir, baking done, just icing to do.

About time.

And there have been a few 👇

America, when are we going to see consequences?

The young peafowl showing off their trains, unbothered by Scout.

A forlorn bench at #Kinnordy

Utterly despicable remarks.

Books will be written about Jack Smith, films will be made. He is becoming the Eliot Ness of our times 🙏

Lovely aurora just now, from the garden #Angus

8.45am.

The Scottish Government will institute a mansion tax and a private jet tax, Shona Robison has announced The Finance Secretary has said two new council tax bands will be brought in for homes worth more than £1 million

Glasgow Women's Aid has called to revoke the MBE of former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg

On the upside, it's a beautiful day.

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From a year ago but I can apparently keep 'herding cats' on my CV.

I'm struggling to find the words to express my views about Trump's invasion of Venezuela. I guess it's open warfare on anyone/anything that has what he wants now. Where's the line?

Details you can use 👇

Lovely hard frost this morning - out with some of the crew.

Scout says 'Merry Christmas'!

Valco, the Eagle Owl 🦉 at Murton Farm today. Born in captivity and retired here at Murton Farm 🚜 a charity near Forfar which does fantastic work with young people 😀

🌱 Scottish Water has restored 338 hectares of peatland around Backwater Reservoir, in Angus, Scotland. 🌱Reviving precious peatlands improves water quality, boosts diversity, and locks away carbon for a healthier planet 🌍 🌱Less energy is needed to filter out organic matter in drink water sources💧

Great Garden Futures exhibition at the V&A Dundee, politics, colonisation, guerillas, community, art - all there!

I don't understand why Americans don't start a revolution on this alone 👇

It's particularly an attack on women, because he's inadequate.

Wee Saoirse left a few pawprints in the mud the other day whilst we were out for a walk with Scout. Today, they're frozen solid.

Conversation in B&M at the checkout, whilst buying a sharp tool that needed managerial consent, with apologetic checkout guy: Me: It's ok, I understand. Him: I don't care what you do with it, I've sold more dodgy things to dodgier looking people than you.

-1⁰ at 7.45am.

6.57am.

#AutumnGold #Kinnordy #Scout

@revivecoalition.bsky.social annual conference in Perth...

Left-wing European politicians are celebrating this morning after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election.

Samhain blessings to you, yours and your ancestors 🙏

Were those young princesses safe during this time?

This is beyond comprehension 🤦‍♀️

Seven beavers have been released in a wild Highland glen in a major step forward for the drive to restore the animals to Scotland’s landscape

Our favourite place closed yesterday and we're bereft #WeeBear The new owners will have an impossible task. #IFYKYK

View from the office.

Remember the movie, Antz.

6.22am walkies before heading to Glasgow for a @publichealthscot.bsky.social board meeting via @ember-energy.org bus.

Nocturnal visitor right now 💚

Saw the mighty Horse at Birnam Arts last night. My mission to see as many icons as possible continues...

Watch as four critically endangered wildcat kittens are caught on camera for the first time 👇

A Raiders of the Lost Ark morning.

@scottheald72.bsky.social 😉

6.48am.

Privileged to spend yesterday afternoon in the company of Professor Sir Gregor Smith Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, at the latest in a series of special speaker sessions hosted by @publichealthscot.bsky.social Inspiring and hopeful, just what the doctor ordered in these troubling times.