A new carbuncle to replace the old carbuncle which replaced Archibald Simpson’s 19thC original? #AberdeenMarket

Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on [email protected] #palaeography #Orkney

It's "help an undergraduate research project time"! Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun! forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2... #OldWeirdScotland

Privileges to work on and salvage from the Vasa were granted to Colonel Alexander Forbes from Aberdeenshire in 1652 - later sold to his business partner Hans Albrekt von Trieileben in 1663 who had been the first to use diving bells at depth

Dog Walking evening

Solving the mystery of 'the old Inverurie fiddle' and its origins. Who made it? And why? How my research uncovered a story of community life and personal tragedy in nineteenth century north east Scotland. See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here: monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...

Son is off to Edinburgh in Sep to study Geology/Geophysics. He’s trying escape me boring him with S. Enlightenment era stuff!

Roasting here 🥵 Its not that often I can sit outside and read the quarterly Mill News!

Anyone know if Cumberland’s army billeted at Cullen en route to Culloden? @maggiecraig.bsky.social

Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at #OldmeldrumSports. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!

Join us this Thursday for the next Community Stories - Community Archives skills session: Preservation for Community Archives! Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for making these sessions possible. Book your space via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preservati...

Sunday morning stroll round Marble Arch

So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing. tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.

17 May is Norwegian Constitution Day. The Tog, 2025, through Kirkwall to St Magnus Cathedral was led by Kirkwall City Pipe Band. #Orkney #Norway youtu.be/QcNQVGZ1hQA?...

Lazy Sunday

Nice day here again 🌞

I was lying in there somewhere!

Meldrum are Aberdeenshire Schools cup winners, beating Kemnay 3-2 today. Son was Meldrum CB, and has last ever day at school tomorrow.

BBC News - Cash boost to restore 300-year-old water mill www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looking forward to seeing Aberdeen friends next week to talk about editing the works of Robert Fergusson. Did you know... Fergusson is most often associated with Edinburgh - his beloved 'Auld Reikie' - but his family originated in Aberdeenshire. Will be good to be in the Fergusson homeland!

That feeling when you stumble across a book sale and find these gems nestling in the pile. 📚 Now to make room for them. @oldscotbooks.bsky.social

Happy to see we’re there!

Explore the locations of historic mills in Scotland with @natlibscot.bsky.social #maps #📚 #🗃️ #geography #skystorians maps.nls.uk/projects/mil...

Scorhill Stone Circle near Gidleigh, #Dartmoor #StandingStoneSunday

Found this 6” deep on our field - inscribed ‘Robertson & Thom, Aberdeen’. Anyone know what it is?

Serious issues reported from here at Mill of Foresterhill Dec 1864, Aberdeen People’s Journal - a hen hatched 9/10 eggs outside during rainy weather. Article placed in between articles reporting a body found at sea and a sudden death!

View from office this morning. Also a nice wee mural near Holburn Street.

We'd love to have your submissions for a new collection of poems responding to the life, works and legacies of 18thC Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, published by Taproot Press. Deadline extended and full info 👇

Eiffel Tower jigsaw puzzle - also a Mill issue.

Sad news about the ‘Lawman’ This is the view from my work office. #DenisLaw

Hello Bluesky👋 We're Saline & District Heritage Society, a community group based in West Fife, Scotland. As well as hosting monthly speaker events we run a summer museum, heritage workshops, archaeological digs & more! salinedistrictheritagesociety.wordpress.com

In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty envisaged a new, tertiary, Highland university embracing "all sciences, liberal disciplines, arts active and factive, mechanick trades, and whatever concernes either vertue or learning, practical or theoretick". 372 years on... archive.org/details/work...

Nice looking day with no breeze, but that’s the coldest morning yet.

Happy new year from #ProjectFergusson! 2024 was a big one for us as we commemorated the 250th anniversary of the death of poet Robert Fergusson (1750-74). You can read about what we got up to 👇 but please watch this space and follow @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social for what comes next…

Not a cook really, but this morning made Lentil & Chicken soup, and a ‘pudding’ made with Oats, chopped apple, cinnamon, eggs and yogurt. Tastes ok! #MillMeals

Enjoyed your blog on Hugh Mercer. I also did a wee YouTube slide show on him. Please excuse the clunkiness, it's my first attempt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_UY...

Very good article about the fascinating Hugh Mercer. At Marischal College, Aberdeen (across the road from my office) there’s a plaque dedicated to him. Maggie Craig has also written some excellent biographical material on him. @maggiecraig.bsky.social.

ok half an hour has lapsed, can I please sing auld lang syne for Hogmanay on the bbc next year please? #chompinatthebitforadecade

Happy New Year from the Mill 🥃

For those interested in British and Irish military, commercial and other forms of migration into Scandinavia and Northern Europe, check out this biographical prosopography. Online and free since 1995. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne 🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy Open to updates

Harlaw Monument today. Noisy bunch coming in from north-west and heading back westwards. Donald and Hector at the front.

23 December 1745: Government highlanders commanded by Norman MacLeod of Dunvegan and George Munro of Culcairn were defeated by a numerically superior Jacobite force led by Lord Lewis Gordon at Inverurie. The Jacobites were predominantly lowlanders along with regular soldiers from the Royal Ecossais.

My father passed 7 years ago today. Son of a miller, motor engineering lecturer, tin whistle player, raconteur and bon viveur. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/1603...

Can hardly see my gears and wheels through all the Xmas stuff 🎄 #mills

Yes, this! I've had nothing but positive experiences visiting archives. The first one I visited was the Highland Archive Centre in Inverness and they could not have been more welcoming and helpful. Archives are now my happy place.

It's been quite a year celebrating Robert Fergusson at the 250th anniversary of his death. Our work keeps on and next year we'll be finalising his Complete Works for @edinburghup.bsky.social. Follow us @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social. Merry Christmas from #ProjectFergusson!

Tree finally up (kind of). We bit odd shaped. Harvey’s 1st Xmas, so had to elevate it to stop him eating the decorations.

So, its decided, everyone was right, its a buttery-rowie: www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

This pole will be soon be up-cycled into horse jumps. #StormDarragh

Our first damage (I think) from Storm Darragh.