Leveson II now. My old fashioned view.

Pierre Chappuis (tr. John Taylor)

the last one to reach the summit was sunset 25.IX.25

'my farthest walk / reaches as far as / the start of yours'

New podcast alert!! T.J. Clark and Caroline Arscott discuss Those Passions www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

£140m cuts. 1,800 jobs at risk. Edinburgh staff are voting again. @drjogrady.bsky.social: “The quickest way to force their hand is a resounding YES vote. We stand with our members at Edinburgh as they ballot to defend jobs, students, and education. ✊

an era when politics became floaters and voters forgot how to flush

'MADE FOR MOVING ON / pebble'

Cairngorms idyll

family tree the mother in us the past in us the father in us the fate in us the child in us the wild in us the love in us the love in us 23.IX.25

let’s agree that red and white make dark let’s agree that the Antichrist is not mild, nor moderate, nor a stagnationist. let’s agree he has a lot of hate in his hate let’s agree she wears four gold rings like the skin of the panther

'MOST LOVELY OF ALL OUR FLAWS / beauty'

He’s good at this 👏👏👏

On the day I found out I have two poems shortlisted for the Frances Browne Poetry Competition (Ulster Scots), just taking a moment to reflect on all minority languages. This poem by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill says it better than I can #poetry #poemoftheday #language #ulsterscots #gaeilge

Another #WinteringWellCollective meeting. The third year of the self-sustaining group following the #livingwithSAD project. Today sharing Autumn tactics, reading, practices, planning, produce and pain ☀️🌦️

For folks with M.E in England and rest of the UK, here’s a peek of what it’s like in Scotland to access care…based on my experience. 1. There’s not one M.E. consultant in the country. 2. Neurology and cardiology don’t want to see us. My referrals have been rejected. (1/?) #pwME #MECFS

let’s agree with Nora, for sure she’s not Molly, for wasn’t she much fatter? let’s agree that an ‘Irish fact’ is anything they will tell you in Ireland, (ditto anywhere). let’s agree to boil our wooden spoons let’s agree we would all rather the killer had a different nature

This is so beautiful, I had share. Anyone want to set up a Bluesky book club for poems?!

I'm collecting words for REST, as in to rest', from languages around the world. Do add to my list. They will be drawn as signposts and added to a platform of rest.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Sundays sometimes we’re too tired to nose down the glens or find the right beach so we take a blanket and head for the park and it’s fucking amazing

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

Coldingham Bay the sailboat comes in close enough to the beach to see us then sails off 14.IX.25

Some members of Bucks Fizz have aged better than others.

she is a poem that walks I am a rest that writes we are a word that smiles 17.IX.25

let’s agree that the Antichrist is not mild, is not moderate, is not a stagnationist.

Revive conference on Real Land Reform, Perth Concert Hall, Scotland, 8th November 2025: #LandReform

a surplus of salt bleaches the colour swatch of the beach huts

my crib, made by IHF, 1966; a cross between Bauhaus and Biblical.

the rest of the wave is out of its depth the rest of the sail is in its furl the rest of the sea is over the orison 15.IX.25

let’s agree that red and white make dark.

Today would be a very good day for the UK govt to delete its accounts on X.

Coldingham Bay the sailboat comes in close enough to the beach to see us then sails off 14.IX.25

Describe contemporary English politics to a Martian: the two main parties, The Conservatives and Labour, outdo themselves in seeking to be replaced by a third party, Reform, which represents the very worst instincts of both.

A study found 29% of participants who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 developed Long COVID A combination of 3 antivirals helped improve Long COVID symptoms The FDA accepted the application of a potential oral therapy for the prevention of COVID-19 This week's #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/4gi1P7c

the way to write things down? jot them, paint them, type them– slow the flow of words into pools the fish wish to swim in

Really good, I thought. Particularly, for me, all the stuff about Highlanders' relationship with land, and Rev Small's reply on how a clan chief's relationship to the land and the clan is so at odds with modern (or capitalist) ideas of 'ownership'. Nobody should own land as if it was a Thing.

'TIME / tine', (thorn), one of the poems composed for Sweeney's Bothy on the Isle of Eigg.

she invites me in saying this is my official bed of rest then pulls back a curtain and –ta-da!– this bed is for unofficial resting 12.IX.25

it’s funny that Turning Point USA exists to spread far right talking points at American universities, Turning Point UK exists to do the same at UK universities, and Turning Point Scotland exists to provide social care services to homeless people and people struggling with mental health and addiction

'do the clouds / win / or lose / the rain?'

1:57 if you're interested youtu.be/gDBIGtvUyDg?...

Just waiting to happen on a very large cock on a hillside near you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someday historians will study the injustice of a nation that will vote so clearly for the right to self-determination being denied a referendum. They will also study the difference between 'mongrel' Scottish nationalism, and 'racist' Reform nationalism.

proposal for a flag front: we get it reverse: we really do 9.IX.25

War & War

let’s agree that numberwanging doesn’t count let’s agree to plant a Hashabi apple tree for every dead child let’s agree this is the wrong train– don’t stay on let’s agree, it’s okay, our error in navigation was 360 degrees let’s agree that the octopus dreams in colour bursts

'wish fulfilled / isle', a Pongeostic; view of Rum from Eigg, with Luke Allan. For Sweeney's Bothy.