We could all do with Some sun & flowers right now These are simply beautiful… Until we see the long glow In the sky again.

Pretty birds and silly moos - the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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What's Christmas without enjoying a hot drink near a crackling fire? The elves at East Kilbride Central Library certainly agree... if you can spot them that is! 🎄☕

Only took a drive out to get more shower bombs. Then remembered, a new book/coffee shop opened a couple of weeks ago…oh dear 😬 After my wee bookfest yesterday too 🙈 Felt guilty for all of 10 seconds. Read the quote on the back & giggled all the way home as it sat on the passenger seat beside me 😂

Lots of events planned for next year about my book 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales', due out Feb 26th. Available for preorder.

Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

Some Cold Killers are on the loose at Greenhills Library Hub this winter. Catch them if you can! ❄️ Greenhills Library Hub is currently open Monday to Thursday, 10:30am to 1pm, and it's opening days may change in the new year.

A striking reminder of how libraries have shaped women’s access to education, while continuing to inspire new creative work. #Libraries #WomensHistory #nli

Such a devastating disease that just seems to keep coming back stronger each time. So upsetting to see this…

It’s always the box. Always.

Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure

The Walkhighlands app has been commended in the @tgomagazine.bsky.social reader awards! “Essential for walking in Scotland”, commented one reader to TGO. Another said they “have explored areas I would never have thought of on paths I would never have found thanks to this app!” [1/3]

Advent bird No. 17 Raven Scientific name: Corvus corax Alternative names: Corbie, croupy craw, great big black thing, Deathy McDeathface Finnish name: korppi Song: gronk, k’ack k’ack k’ack, korrrp (and much much more)

2nd century AD tombstone of Regina from the tribe of the Catuvellauni & wife of Barates from Palmyra. The tombstone is bilingual in Latin and Aramaic - the only known example in Britain. Part of the collections at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday

My mystery books stash bought today £5 for each Christmas surprise Fluctuating light conditions Mucking about with Canon RP/Canon FD 28mm

Some of my wanderings today Nice to see blue skies And so many things bathed in low winter sunshine Even if it was cold with it Beautiful house but I don’t like digestive biscuits It’s like eating a thatched roof

A visit today to one of my favourite 2nd hand bookshops Once I’d pulled this from the shelf And seen the front cover I was never in a million years Going to leave it behind

Today marks 250 years of Jane Austen! Did you know all her novels published in her lifetime were done so anonymously? However, by the time Mansfield Park came out, the secret was out and her brother Henry may have been partially to blame! Austen wanted her work to be judged on merit, not gender.

Documentary ‘The Librarians’ is a must watch, it’s currently on iPlayer - likely to be Oscar nominated & rightly so. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Replacing collapsed bridge 'nigh on impossible' cost for council https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g45p10z3wo

Many #Libraries are registered as Warm Spaces with the @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social. Our webinar with the Good Faith Foundation explains the Warm Welcome campaign and the benefits for libraries in getting involved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFv...

This moray's home is off the southern shore of Liuqiu Island, southwest of Taiwan. Taken with my Sony RX100 Mark IV, Nauticam housing, wide-angle wet lens and YS-D3 strobe. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography

Slideshow of old photos! A great balance of the everyday, games & a spattering of royalty. Spied a couple of Dowager Queen Alexandra In her heyday, a great beauty & fashion icon to the point where women used sticks & developed a limp to be like her Today maybe better than a TikkyTokky influencer

The convenience of the mobile phone… 🎶This could be Rotterdam or anywhere Liverpool or Rome🎶 But it’s not. It’s a car park - ‘Ev’ry Little Helps’ 👀 Lurgy mask on to get some supplies. Didn’t expect to see this after a day of almost but not quite, dark skies.

Touring in #France in our #campervan. The wonderful Vendée & Coastal Loire-Atlantique. I've been busy with paid work but after a break here is a blog post! Campervan Touring Around the Vendée & Coastal Loire-Atlantique – Back on the road again share.google/2xzK9rgodIXi...

The Snowy Owl has been declared Regionally Extinct in Sweden. For the first time in 20 years, the country has officially lost a bird species. - www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12... #BirdingScotland #UKBirding Attributed to a combination of climate change and disruption to the lemming cycle. A tragedy.

Monday Motivator: A Casual or Anxious Sketchbook? The pristine pages of a sketchbook excel at generating anxiety and doubt in the would-be user. There's no going back after the first mark you make in it.

The voicemail on my phone is now apparently being automatically transcribed by AI. Pretty sure AI can’t cope with North-East England speech, as they are mostly garble. And one transcription says that my car mechanic wants to talk with me about cabbages …

Je continue ça jusqu'à environ 13h: www.twitch.tv/bouletcorp

#Glasgow #WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo #StainedGlass Instagram post: 08/12/25

COMING SOON The next episode of The Folklore Podcast is out tomorrow. In THIRST: RIVERS AND FOLKLORE I'll be chatting a little bit about some of the folklore associated with rivers, there will be a major guest interview with @darrensimpson44.bsky.social and music from @lunatraktors.bsky.social

True. I can’t see them repairing it. It shouldn’t have been left to deteriorate to a state of collapse. Yet, it’s exactly what they did a few years ago with a historic bridge in Lossie - too expensive to repair. Just build another nearby. Never mind the historic value.

Further to earlier. Now drone footage of the collapse of the old railway bridge over the Spey. Am absolutely gutted 😢 Sorry Skeets is rubbish in that, Skeets won’t link a visible thumbnail to the link. Historic rail bridge collapses into River Spey https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m87jlv97ro

Oh my goodness me!! That’s a shocker! Sorry - Tried to post link to bbc article but Skeets hates me trying to post links.

For those who don't enjoy wrapping

Love this new seasonal sign from the street artist A Sign of Humour outside the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. #glasgow #streetart #glasgowhumour #scotland #galleryofmodernart #dukeofwellington #roadcone #christmas #xmas #christmasinglasgow

A fantastic slideshow of stunning old photographs!

Tree has been up for a couple of days. She’s not touched it I told her I’d chase her through the village with a claymore if she did She’s clearly not calling my bluff It’s #Caturday Elsa

After filling my face with more goodies today, I had a 3 mile yomp - Bantrach area with the doggos to walk it off & a run out further to a very, very cold, windy & choppy Lochindorb. It was a one shot stop as the wind was taking me sideways. Little wonder I’ve got lurgy 😂 📷 Canon/Canon 70-210mm

A full Christmas dinner yesterday in a Kirk that has a new lease of life, as a restaurant. Still retaining some original features & a place friends & I like to visit but don’t usually get a table right opposite this window.

A weak but lengthy aurora here last night.

Had a lovely few days. Out n about. Dining with friends. Catching up with friends. Now, tonight…Ding ding - lurgy round 2. Feeling shabby Off to do something medicinal With lemons & whisky My immune system is non existent Wish I was a bear Get fat in autumn Sleep all winter 🧸 Wake up skinny 😄

Great slide show of old photos of Dumfries. Interesting to see the Temperance Hotel change names & possibly hands over time. If still there, probably a Witherspoons with marginally less atmosphere than a temperance establishment 👀 Still great to see the photos tho’

This Friday, an evening of song and story in support of the Right to Roam at Cobalt Studios, Newcastle! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin... @righttoroam.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social

Congrats Dawn on your amazing dish with Cullen Skink sauce in tonight's MasterChef! You’ve done Cullen proud 😍 We hold a Cullen Skink World Championships each year with entries opening w/beginning 5 Jan, finals on 1 Mar. Details at discovercullen.com/cullen-skink/ #CullenSkink