Photographers please take note (as found over on Threads from Kayoule rare books): “For years I have looked for the perfect pencil. I have found very good ones but never the perfect one. And all the time it was not the pencils but me.” - John Steinbeck

Homemade Turkey Balti tonight . Only, I’m not posting a photo of it because it’ll look exactly how you’d imagine a leftover Turkey Balti to look, innit? . . #Foodsky #HomeCooking #currynight #balti #Turkey #lifeathome #ruby #leftovers #XmasDinners #TurkeyAgainOleOle

Finally got my portable jigsaw board delivered, and it looks like a Subbuteo pitch you’ve ordered from Temu. #Jigsaw #JigsawBoard #subbuteo #Temu #SeemsLegit #ImABastardForAPuzzle

Right, two options for this afternoon as I’m just about to settle down. Either shoot myself in the head with a nail gun, or watch Spurs get turned over and mugged by Palace, then relay the result to me old Mum … #PleaseRemainCalm #LifeChoices #footballbollocks #COYS #AllEndInTearsMate

The wreck of the Monreith, Dhoon Bay.

My New Year resolution is to be ‘Slightly Less Fucking Sweary’. I’m not actually ‘swearing’ by the way, it’s just how I talk. Makes more sense if you met me IRL. Also maybe remove some of that shiteload of camera gear out of my bags, and take some pictures or something. #NewYear #DontJudgeMe

‘The Globe Bar’ in the West Port, Dundee. . My Great Uncle Paddy was thrown out of here once during a fight - through the window. He went straight back in again. Ended up in Bell Street. As may well be obvious, I’m not descended from the landed gentry. #theglobe #dundee #pubfights

My energy going into 2026.

Managed this once during a night out in Cowdenbeath, but in 1988, and without the robot. #NightOut #SelfInjury #Cowdenbeath #SaturdayNightsAreForKickingYourself

Merry Saturday, from Scotland . Hope yours is more exciting than mine . . #SaturdayNight #RockNRoll #SportSound #radio #lifeathome #careathome #PleaseRemainCalm

You have book tokens? 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' due Feb 26th, available to preorder from bookshops and the main bookselling websites. 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners' still available.

Just watched a Greenfich fly into the conservatory window, drop down, spasm and die. Third one of the year, only ever Greenfinchs. Tried to resuscitate him but to no avail. Didn’t take a photo out of respect. That’s me in a shit state of mind for the day. #Greenfinch #birds #RIPlittleone

Pastel drawing of a photo i took from the car. A lorry parked opposite a shop in the pouring rain

House next to the cemetery. Vălcineț, Moldova, 2015. From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.

Little help please. Does anyone I know have experience with miniature wood turning and can point me in the right direction in where to look for proper basic beginner studies? Specifically making simple miniature hollow forms. 🪵 Thank you in advance.

Here we go again … 🔔 ding-ding, round f*cking two 😂 . . . #Foodsky #AllTheVegAndShit #MerryChristmas #ChristmasDinnerDisasters #Turkeygate #BoxingDayOrSomething #lifeathome #careathome

From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Available to order. Honister Slate Mine and Monkey Shelf The last working slate mine in Britain, Honister began commercial production in the 17th century although it’s possible that slate was quarried here much earlier. Originally, the slate was...

🎄 Morning all 🎄 . Friday, innit? . . #BoxingDay #MerryFriday #HappyHolidays #HappyWithWhateverYouDo #kitchendisasters

Sheffield FC and Hallam FC met in the world's oldest club football fixture on this day 1860, played under 'Sheffield rules' that became basis of the modern game. Sheffield won 2-0 at Sandygate Road, Crosspool. (pic Sheffield FC 1876)

For the life of me, I’ll never understand why Oasis were bigger than The Verve. Goodnight 🫡 #wtaf #TheVerve #ManchesterScene #MusicSky #BlueskyMusic

I don’t half get some right fucking random follows these days, honestly. I mean, have you even bothered to look at my Bio or Timeline? We have nothing in common. #followers #Random #Bluesky #HowDoesThisEvenWork

Christmas is saved! Hallelujah, or something 🙏 #Foodsky #GammonJoint #AllTheVegAndShit #MerryChristmas #ChristmasDinnerDisasters #TurkeyGate

All that hassle finding just the right size turkey, defrosting since yesterday morning, prep all the stuffing etc. Literally about to season and pop in the oven when the wife comes in and says Mum just told her she’s not keen on turkey. #MerryChristmas #FFS #ChristmasDinnerDisasters

🎄 Morning all 🎄 . Thursday, innit? . . #MerryChristmas #MerryThursday #HappyHolidays #HappyWithWhateverYouDo #PeaceAndLove

Search your first name, then ‘glamour shot’, and post a photo:

Popped down the Tesco earlier, but just to get Cup-A-Soups for Mum, fags and dog treats. Funnily enough, it was completely rammed. Folk still picking up frozen turkeys the size of an ostrich. That’ll still be defrosting on New Year’s Eve mate … #Christmas #ChristmasEve #PanicInTheSupermarket

1,421 days ffs

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

Right, now I know I’m getting old, clearly remember when the Keiller Centre opened. What I could never clearly remember was which direction I was going in. The disorientation of shopping offset, however, by the excitement of not knowing where you were going to exit. #Dundee #CityCentre #Memories

A list of graves in Vălcineț’s Jewish cemetery sits in the house given to Natalie Filipciuc’s grandmother after the Jewish owners were forced to leave... Vălcineț, Moldova, 2015. From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.

The fuck is it with folk arguing the toss over simple, straightforward comments I make on here? Don’t bother with anyone else’s, just mine? Tired of being taken for a fucking idiot, honesty.

Wife’s watching ‘Emmerdale’, so rather than incur wrath, and a beating, by speaking, I just showed her a photo from my phone, for what’s for tea tonight. . . . #HomeCooking #Foodsky #fryup #sausages #bacon #eggs #tomatoes #toast #EmmerdaleWidower

Homemade Fry Up tonight, which will bear little resemblance to the first image but look remarkably similar to the second. With eggs. . . . #HomeCooking #Foodsky #fryup #sausages #bacon #eggs #tomatoes #toast #AlreadyAFatBastardSoWhyNot

Today’s utter lack of hope, sponsored by Scotland and the weather . . #scotland #weather #ScottishWeather #winter #monochrome #shiteweather

Wednesday, innit? . . . #MerryWednesday #kitchenfails #kitchendisasters #ThisIsNormal #lifeathome #SpaghettiButOnFire

A song or movie for gadgets we use ‘The MacBook of Eli’ #ASongOrMovieForGadgetsWeUse

The cats who don’t live here have discovered the tinsel

Odesa, 2021 From Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing’

🇮🇹 Homemade Spaghetti Meatballs With lamb meatballs Get in, but in Italian 👌 #HomeCooking #pastasauce #passata #tinnedtomatoes #lifeathome #spaghetti #meatballs

🇮🇹 Homemade Spaghetti Meatballs tonight With lamb meatballs Sauce coming along nicely👌 (Yes, I know I haven’t posted last night’s ruby recipe yet, busy day innit? I’m not a machine) #HomeCooking #Foodsky #pastasauce #passata #tinnedtomatoes #lifeathome #spaghetti #meatballs

On the 3rd night of Hanukkah, we share this 1950s photo of Jewish American war veterans gathered around a menorah. 🕎 The preservation of images like this links the past to our present & shows how traditions endure across generations. 📸 archive.org/details/cala... #Preservation #Holidays #Veterans

Half Man Half Biscuit day on Pointless . . #halfmanhalfbiscuit #HMHB #Pointless #KnobheadsOnQuizShows

Current Christmas Mood . . #christmas #mood #ChristmasBollocks #PeakyBlinders

Mental St. Andrews Property Prices - No.2 Fork out a shade under a quarter million, and this cold War machine-gun bunker could be yours. In Glenrothes you could probably knock the ‘2’ off the front there. . . #StAndrews #scotland #Fife #property #PropertyForSale #HavinALaughAintYa #GolfWankers

I never claimed to be a wildlife photographer. Nr.12 - Yet Another Tree Sparrow . . . #photography #blackandwhitephotography #wildlifephotography #notwildlifephotography #sparrow

I was on the Resonance radio Sound of Photography show on Friday hosted by photographer and broadcaster, Frank Watson. If you don't know this show, some of the sessions are online - I really enjoyed listening to them. Frank and I talked about my work and perceptions of #landscape. lnkd.in/ePQF9pMW

Rezina, Moldova, 2018. The Jewish community that had been here since the early 19th century was destroyed in the Holocaust. From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.

Homemade Malay Lamb Curry Probably the easiest curry you’ll make 👌 (Mum having a cup of soup and a roll ☹️) #HomeCooking #currynight #Malay #lamb #lifeathome #ruby #Foodsky

Have a Mary little Christmas. Art in my store starting at $60, $100 +

‘Holiday World’ doesn’t do irony. Blocked them happy bastards 👌