Red Admiral on my chrysanthemums today - first I've seen this year! #Scotland

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

"In some areas of the country, St George flags and union jacks have been raised on lampposts and painted on roundabouts, which Ms Choudry said made her uneasy." This is exactly what was intended. This country needs to pull itself together.

Proud 👏! Turned on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social last night to hear announcer say that friend @karenclarsach.bsky.social will be playing in a broadcast concert on Friday, oh yes indeed! #KarenMarshalsay #clarsach ❤️ 💙 💜

Looking forward to bringing the 3 Scottish harps to a live session on Friday for BBC Radio 3’s In Tune with Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Highland Hotel in Inverness! Listen in for lever, bray and wire-strung clarsach tunes and some chat, as well as songs from Julie Fowlis and a Gaelic choir.

#ArchivesDay - I'm not finding anything relevant. But here's a letter anyone would like to receive! #ThomasNelson writes to a Swiss professor, 'Your letter [..] came as a shining light on a dark night. It gave me infinite pleasure [..] I am eager to see anything which you may have written.'😍

#ArchivesDay Still not finding what I'm looking for. But I do admire the economy of #ThomasNelson's 1954 title, SOIL. (Remind me to order more potting compost this evening ...!)

#ArchivesDay - haven't found what I'm looking for, but I'm intrigued by the deal struck between an Edinburgh car hire firm and publishers #ThomasNelson in 1954. Copies of a book on Scotland to be sold to this firm, with an 8-page advertising insert! #Tourism

#Newfangled, discovering how everyone else has been streaming music into their earbuds for years. #ReplacementHearingAids Hey, I can now listen to audio books and look as though I'm watching TV repeats ...!

Chilly morning, Glasgow. Yes, it's autumn.

Old lady's mind blown - my replacement #hearingaids can STREAM MUSIC. (Yes, I realise your bluetooth headphones have been doing that for years, but they don't also help you hear 😉 )

Good morning's work! (well, walk) to Audiology to have my faulty #hearingaids replaced. Grateful 🙏 to nice audiologist, putting an end to an annoying intermittent fault. @nhsggc.bsky.social

"It's the same as saying people with lung cancer have matches in their pockets. It's not the matches that gave them lung cancer, it's the smoking." Former Centres for Disease Control director Dr Demetre Daskalakis on President Trump linking paracetamol and autism. #Newsnight

Thanks, @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social has answered my question without me having to try a #matcha at all!!

This being what Himself calls my 'half-day of retirement', I shall head outside to stick a couple of plants in patio pots. I think this is the kind of thing retirees are expected to do ... ?

It was disappointing to discover that they weren't exactly alone #CominThroTheRye. She maintained a polite, distant demeanour. #GirlsOwnCC

Ok, it's time for the new jacket to get an outing ... #Patchwork

This makes me feel uncomfortable, just knowing what is about to happen. But not nearly as uncomfortable as the van *after* it has happened.

After a sociable day, and a nice meal out, three grown adults are competitively playing Mariokart. I sit, bemused, sipping mint and fennel tea! I've never played an electronic game!

Made by my 8-year old self. Spent decades in Nana's house in Kent, a couple of decades in Norfolk, and now we're reunited in Glasgow.

There! Both our mums' proud achievements now up on the wall. @rscds.bsky.social certificate of recognition signed by Miss Milligan for Mam, and #NoningtonCollege (Kent), where Mum did her teaching certificate.

‘Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".’ FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was harried and hurriedly into ordering bathroom blinds, but I have to say, I got them right!

I wonder if @researchgate.bsky.social is taking a similar approach or is being more sensible?

One Book. One Story, about the Book itself karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/09/18/o... Not really #BookHistory, but a nice wee anecdote!

And it's our firstborn's birthday. What a day that was!

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

I know I quite often mistyped myself as 'librarina', but I am quite sure I always corrected it before any emails went out as such! #Professional #Typos

#ArchivesDay. Oof! It's 1954, and here I find forthright comments about an author:- '... although [their] books are so good [they are] extremely unpopular'. Bad enough? No. '[their spouse] also makes [themself] a nuisance.'

#ArchivesDay. I FOUND a memo from the lady who briefly worked at #ThomasNelson in Edinburgh. She rescued a book and gave it to the library of the college where she formerly worked. It survives there to this day! @edunilibraries.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social Suddenly today's a good day :)

How many guys will don a turtle neck and sports jacket today, channelling their inner #Redford?

#ArchivesDay. Hoping for more archival success than I found yesterday. Yes, I got distracted - there was almost no trace of Miss A. karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/09/16/j...

Okay, so I got sidetracked. So?! karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/09/16/j...

Always courteous, are our #ThomasNelson staff. This is from 1953, to a firm that has outstanding debts:- 'Will you be so kind as assist us and particularly our Counting Room staff by giving your attention to your valued account with us, now considerably overdue. Yours very truly ...'

Lunch and conversation @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, now a coffee outside on a stone table @edunilibraries.bsky.social and back to #ArchivesDay. I WILL find her, the illusive educational editor!

'So many changes have taken place that there is something reassuring in the knowledge that "Education" continues its useful existence ...' Written by a #ThomasNelson editor, 72 years ago. Plus ca change ...?

#ArchivesDay is not going well. Much amusement - in 1953, ThomasNelson decided not to proceed with a 'Cowboy Annual', and rejected a cookbook because the reader 'seldom felt that an author was less qualified to tackle his subject'! - but no trace yet of the lady editor whom I'm pursuing!

#ArchivesDay. Hoping to find correspondence from a particular Glaswegian #ThomasNelson editor. Will today be my lucky day?

Really?!

I made so many inconsequential slip-ups that had to be pointed out yesterday, I'm glad to be going to Edinburgh where I'm criticised less! Although I'm expecting a phone call to tell me I didn't need to leave the bathroom window open 🙃 #ImperfectWife #Griselda

Making an omelette, I suddenly remembered: seeing my #omelette efforts always triggers Himself to make the same comment. Sure enough, there it was. 'I wonder how Chinese restaurants make their omelette in such neat layers?' Wouldn't you think I'd have taken the trouble to find out, in 38 years?

It’s always difficult, I think, to do a post out of the blue where you just come straight out and say “BUY MY BOOK HERE LOOK HERE IT IS” without any preamble, but sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and do it. Tl;dr: BUY MY BOOK HERE LOOK HERE IT IS levparikian.com/index.php/pr...

Further context: the book’s publishers, Unbound, went bust a few months ago, the rights and all remaining stock reverted to me, and I now have several boxes of the book in my office, which is several-minus-one boxes too many. I like the book, make no mistake, but am also keen to get rid of them.

Why why why would an extraordinarily well-endowed young lady want to follow a frankly old-fashioned, conventional church organista of 67?

Oh, God. I went to draw the curtains, as it's so gloomy and miserable out there. This is a faux pas! (And I was doing so well on the practically perfect wife front.) #Griselda

Putting it out into the world that I would love to be put in touch with a musicologist knowledgeable in 17thc English Music. I’m doing a project and I’m interested in the relationship the Separatist Puritans had with music, and what music came with them to the American colonies Thanks!

Glad to be old. Roast chicken dinner, semolina pudding, and all's right with the world. For the present moment, anyway.

@lucymccaul.bsky.social might like this? #KnittyThings

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