Today is a taking stock day #FlagstoneFiekdwork @gaada.bsky.social

I’ve lost count of how many times i’ve re-listened to this series! first re-listen of 2026 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Noticing 09.02.26 i think i’ve just heard a wee mechanical tinny laverock above the wind. just a whistle, but that gives me hope for brighter days. The skylarks nest in that place and I always stop up listen. Thanks for the teaser of coming attractions

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “are these coming back?”

I’ve made sourdough cinnamon rolls; they are in the oven right now. They’re just for me. YOU are worth making sourdough for. YOU are worth making cinnamon rolls for, YOU are deserving of making and eating anything you like. but these are mine!

the absolute killer of having twice as many characters as the limit…. time for chocolate

<<application filling this weekend

Lovely to see the Pride Progress flag swaaapin proudly on top of the Lerwick Toon Hall, for #LGBTQHistoryMonth

#FlagstoneFieldwork on tetrapak @gaada.bsky.social

If Candlemass be bright and fair, Half o winters to come and mair. If Candlemass be dark and dull, Half o winter was done at Yule.

chronic health issue- related weather grumble: I do so love all seasons but the cold is colding and i have purchased a new heated throw

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Lynden Nicolson has begun his big day as guizer jarl of Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa. Nicolson and his squad of 65 left Islesburgh earlier this morning – following a stomach-lining breakfast – to head out into the public for the first time. Full story here: shet.news/p7mih

i believe this year’s lerwick up helly aa squad are are actually Judoon ‘The waves go mo-ho-jo-ro-lling on’

playing with the colours of bressay sandstone tonight

in the process of downloading all my instagram media… i think the time has come

I’m rewatching Nurse Jackie because… my nervous system just fucking needs me to watch something that I’ve seen before and know the outcome of… and I forgot how i really watched this show for the magnificence that is Merret Wever!

This is how I learn Yahoo & AOL are still a thing

i hope someone paints a traffic cone on each of the offending AI figures’s heads

3 yrs ago, to almost the hour. Last #BusStopSelfie after my last walk to my last day at work at SSSA at Ed Uni. on precipice of last few days living in Edinburgh, in what would be last few days of a marriage. Went forward with positivity and never looked back yet with anything other than gratitude

Has anyone got a nice paper on how higher education shouldn't be driven by what employers supposedly want in graduates?

finished re-reading #FriedGreenTomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, which i possibly read 30 years ago. theres the strength of platonic love, LGBTQIA representation, and non-traditional families and community… and there’s the weight of racism, slurs, fat phobia, sexism which ultimately pulled it down

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

I find it absolutely infuriating when the size & format of last year’s diary is not available this year. Boxclever, we’re through!

Second thoughts: George will blame Brad, but he was snuggling with Amber at the time and there will be a merry dance on whether she gives him the alibi and put the final nail in the coffin of her & George’s relationship! And the bottle bonce basher remains at large… (i’m bored of it already)

Hear me out, ok? Leonard was out at midnight litter picking. He slipped down the bank and the bottle he was holding was launched and hit George on the head. While George was unconscious, Hilda came and sharpened her claws on his face. Then Paul on a driving lesson runs George over. #TheArchers

I’ll venture it was Keerurr, with the free, ‘Best Pub’ winning Chardonnay bottle…. #TheArchers

Who else feels shortchanged by that episode - they never told us what the eyelash trends for 2026 were going to be? #TheArchers

#TheArchers Flipping heck it’s all kicking off

Reminder. BBC has a beautiful radio drama of THE DARK IS RISING by Susan Cooper. You can enjoy it now with (found) family and friends. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

R.I.P. Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner

Noticing 15.12.25 Gorse doesn’t really grow in Shetland and i miss seeing it in abundance, but there is one or two patches in Bressay and I love them for being here!

The first in-depth interview i heard with RR was with Marc Maron. and as he says at the end, Rob Reiner is in our hearts & minds. And he will continue to be. (no link but CW: This interview features a discussion about his son‘s struggle with addiction and their relationship. a hard listen now)

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Rob Reiner was a director, producer, screenwriter, and political activist who met his wife, Michele, on set of When Harry Met Sally while she was doing photography. Reiner changed the movie from a sad ending to a happy one as he began to fall in love with Michele. Rest in peace Rob & Michele ♡

Rob Reiner had a hand in writing, producing, directing, knowing a guy, pairing up talents, punching up a script on the down low, doing a cameo for like so much of the funniest shit coming out of Hollywood the last 50 years. His influence is seen everywhere

i get a jump scare at the start of every episode of Stranger Things because on that fake 80s morning tv ad bit, i think it’s jimmy s@ville (sorry anneka rice!)

Could we just stop equating stages of life / medical issues / general “look” of people with age?? Someone said this week “you’re not old enough to need a hip replacement!” When i said, comments like that aren’t helpful - she said it was a compliment and demanded it was accepted as one. I did not.

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Library Feminists, see here! Great offer for this important forthcoming book

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek)! LOTE, or Marvel.

anyone got suggestions for lovely printmaker square calendars? birds/ wildlife/ sea

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If you sell a wide range of art materials but don’t charge extra to post to Highlands & Island of UK , lmk of your existence!!

OOOHH #TheArchers

Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel. After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.

Please shove spotify in the bin

Bow yer head, a great one be passing... Sorry to hear of the death of Adam McNaughtan - The Jeely Piece Song, Where is the Glasgow that I used to know - and this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Bm...

Och! Go on gently , dear Adam McNaughtan. youtu.be/HYQA_7Xnew8?...

I watched celeste barber’s ad for her make up brand where she goes round a supermarket, dressed as a showgirl and makes up women like magic (who, btw, are already wearing make up) and I thought why do we still do this Cinderella shit?