Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉

that’s one long mermaid

Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascapes painter whose work captures the wild nature of the Scottish highlands and Western Isles #WomensArt

Early Morning in Edinburgh Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Travel #SaturdayMotivation

A favorite every single year. RIP, Kirsty and Shane. 🎄🎅🏻💚

Detail from the Art Nouveau gesso panels by Glasgow School artist Margaret Macdonald, c.1907 #WomensArt ❄️ hunterian.blog/margaret-mac...

A break from politics: Aurora magic.

No painting. No digital tricks. Just physics, timing, and the quiet power of the universe at work 🌌 Nature painted this moment itself, as charged solar winds collided with Earth’s atmosphere and unfurled the aurora into what looks like glowing wings across the night sky ✨

Brèagha

How about you treat the world with respect you evil piglet Putin vows no more wars if West treats Russia with respect - BBC News share.google/qTKXLkkzwbpl...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (from @BillBramhall)

Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls

www.defensenews.com/global/europ.... Slava Ukraini.. Death to all Russian orcs!

New Christmas T shirt just arrived

Skies in Caithness Scotland, separated by 12 hours and 180 degrees.

@womansart.bsky.social … hi can you identify this painting? … it could be European, or perhaps Eastern European or Russian artist … I do not know … it’s from a book my dad had with pictures of paintings in it and I always loved this one

12noon Lesley Riddoch Podcast on...

Please just go away.

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“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

If we want to know what rewilding success might look like in Ireland, we only need to look across the water to Scotland. share.google/G3ADx45gtCvU...

Top UK secondary schools revealed as London grammar school crowned best in annual rankings - LBC Another UK headline, but actually meaning England. Education is devolved

English guy "from Edinburgh " phones @mrjamesob.bsky.social and the first thing he says is "I'm a Reform voter " I've noticed that when OBrien does take a call from Scotland they're 90% of the time English

#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited Good morning, friends. When life feels overwhelming, try this: speak each tiny gratitude aloud until serenity fills your soul. #Jaye’sMorningLight

The question will always be, how fucking much of that drug money did it take to fill trump's pockets for that pardon? There is absolutely NO other reason. The bad/worst part? People died.

Convince me the Trump family isn’t already in or trying to get into the wholesale drug game.

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English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.

John Swinney has pledged to 'champion' the friendship between Scotland and Ireland after he became the first head of government to meet Irish President Catherine Connolly 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Davy's podcast on their arrest for terrorism act 😡 unfuknbelevible www.youtube.com/live/qj75U3n...

This is how butterflies see the flowers.

Medieval floor tiles from St. Albans Abbey and Sopwell Nunnery. Now part of the collections at St. Albans Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #StAlbans

Daily #Wales with a little not-so-random archaeology from the village… Oh, it’s #TombTuesday!

St Margaret, embroidery panel by Ann MacBrth #TheGlasgowStyle

Fungi

Scott McTominay be like ⚽ #Scotland #WorldCup #TartanArmy

A good crop of fungi here at a half-frozen Gaddon Loch #fungi #Fifewildlife #winter

Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break. 📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo

I’ve only seen this fungi a few times in my wanderings, but am fascinated every time. I believe they are Clathrus… #Photography #Fungi #UCBerkeley 📷

BBC News - Scotland 4-2 Denmark highlights: World Cup qualification clinched after epic - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Even if you you're not a fan of football, this 8 minute highlight package from last night will bring a smile to your face this morning. Pure joy.