@philctaylor.bsky.social Many thanks for the repost 🙂

@celiawithalfie.bsky.social Many thanks for the repost 🙂

Route 5, section 2 Stockbridge Market, a really important part of the New Town.

We will be closing booking for this soon to enable us to arrange catering, so make sure you've secured your ticket ASAP so you don't miss out on what promises to be a brilliant day of collaboration and networking.

Hooray for the new bus routes, too. I got on a bus hone and asked the driver why it was going an unexpected way. Roadworks? "It was rerouted yesterday." Long walk from nearest stop.

Ebook currently 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

A photo to start the week with. David Hockney.

This is my space! My page! My book! Signals the angry stork in a Gutenberg bible of 1455. #skystorians

All my life, I've heard that first-past-the-post voting prevents giving influence to dangerous extremists. And now it seems like it might actually put them into actual power.

"Nature recovery cannot be left to distant organisations alone. It has to be embedded in the places where people live, learn and work."

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@drrjwarren.bsky.social Many thanks for the repost. 🙂 I was lucky to be there for such good light, and such lack of crowds.

Route 2, Section 4 is the High Kirk of St Giles.

"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl) Heute vor 83 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.

Sitting cat, Egyptian 6th Century BCE (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Route 2, Section 4 is the High Kirk of St Giles.

Even if the figures are not 100% accurate, the general point is shocking. What is the government doing about it, please @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social ? (Action rather than pledges, hope.)

Studying history? Half-term reading? Some of my pieces were written with you in mind. They are brief but by no means superficial, and they are meant to add to, not replace, text books. Here's a selection in a blog-post. #History #Historyteacher #histed georgehharris.blogspot.com/2022/08/hist...

Wordle 1,709 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pleasing. Now to get out of bed for Matins. We're singing the Sumsion "Benedicite".

21 Feb 1674: Robert Hooke #Scientist of the microscopic walks through Christopher Wren's 'Great Model' of the new St. Paul's cathedral #London #otd - it was 6.3 metres long (stpauls.co.uk )

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BirdsInTheirElement , birds in their natural environment, the alt is #Seabirds Good luck and yes my favourite birds are Little Egrets 😁😁 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

This one hits hard.

On Cramond Foreshore this morning, with family.

Here is February 21st 2022. I started the same job yesterday. #WildLifegarden #Nature #Biodiversity. mywildgardenyear.blogspot.com/2022/02/febr...

I do think some of you would enjoy my guide book to Edinburgh. Anyhow, I've just published the Introduction as a blog-post. #Ednburgh georgehharris.blogspot.com/2026/02/gett...

Wordle 1,708 3/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A pleasing start to the day.

‘Lost’ writings of Dundee’s ‘worst poet’ William McGonagall to go under the hammer

The People's Palace was a very, very good museum. I hope funding can be found soon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I do think some of you would enjoy my guide book to Edinburgh. Anyhow, I've just published the Introduction as a blog-post. #Ednburgh georgehharris.blogspot.com/2026/02/gett...

This 3rd century Roman floor mosaic at an entrance to public bathhouse depicts a pair of bathing sandals, an oil flask and three curved “strigils” used for scraping off sweat, dirt and oil. The inscription declares that bathing is good for you (Sabratha Museum, Libya)

A Pictish cross-slab was found by Anne MacInnes of North of Scotland Archaeological Society near Conon Bridge, Ross-shire, #OTD in 2019. Part of the Conan Stone had been reused as an 18thC grave marker. It is notable for the massive beasts that flank and surmount the cross. 📸HES #medievalsky

Wordle 1,707 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Steady par.

Elisabeth of France, aged 13, in 1615. She is about to be traded to Spain for Infanta Anne of Austria. Will never see her family again. Life of a renaissance princess! Painted by Frans Pourbus, whose day is today.

Route 9, section 1 includes this magnificent bas relief of Misfortune Soothed by Wisdom on the tomb of Andrew Skene. Plenty of people who know Edinburgh well don't know this.

Route 9, section 1 includes this magnificent bas relief of Misfortune Soothed by Wisdom on the tomb of Andrew Skene. Plenty of people who know Edinburgh well don't know this.

@rodmannix.bsky.social Many thanks for all the reposts. 🙂

@artantiq.bsky.social Many thanks for the kind repost. Much appreciated.

The Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weyden, c.1399–1464 (The National Gallery, London)

This.

I do think that many subscribers to The Edinburgh Minute, @index.edinburghminute.com.ap.brid.gy , (I am one; recommended) will enjoy my new guide to Edinburgh. It is not just "the same old stuff". Ten routes, and some strong opinions. Kindle or paperback. www.amazon.co.uk/Getting-Edin...

Delicate dance of the Noli me tangere, painted c. 1440 in a cell at San Marco by Fra Angelico. Today is his day.

Cortona Annunciation altarpiece, painted in the 1430s by Fra Angelico, master of many annunciations. His day is today.

Wordle 1,705 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Couldn't think of it this morning. Just now it came instantly.

If there's ever a third edition (don't hold your breath) I'll recommend the Bo'ness to Kinneil Railway. We've just had a great family day there.

Crested Tit. Super photo taken by Lauren Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. #crestedtit #tit #wildlife #bird #scotland #scottish #nature

@artantiq.bsky.social Many thanks for the repost. 🙂

Studying history at senior school? These pieces were originally written for you (though some of them have found favour also with "general readers".) They don't replace text books but add to them. Brief but not superficial. @htenuk.bsky.social georgehharris.blogspot.com/2022/08/hist...

Remarkable details of birds, flowers & insects from the border of this 2nd century Roman floor mosaic in Antioch (present-day Turkey), which depicts Ganymede offering a drink to Zeus (in the form of a cranky eagle). Signed by artist Neikias

This weird and wonderful Greek amphoriskos (flask) depicts a bird-man, but the explanation is astonishing. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' famous comedy 'The Birds' (first produced 415/414 BCE) and may represent a costume worn by members of the chorus. 🏺 #ancientbluesky #MetMuseum 📸 me