There’s still time to do the #BigGardenBirdwatch today! Spend an hour with a cup of tea looking out the window… Here’s my list! Sparrow: 6 Blue tit: 3 Starling: 2 Magpie: 2 Wood pigeon: 1 Goldfinch: 1

I've put my EP on Soundcloud for folk who listen there. on.soundcloud.com/n4L1o1Vnrhbg... Targeting 26 listens in 2026!!

Today is Bandcamp Friday so if you felt like supporting me by buying some of my tunes I get to keep all the money today. Ta! raibeartruadhainn.bandcamp.com

Out today! Recorded by me! Get stuck in! The Big Midweek - Life Inside The Fall. Read by Stewart Lee. (I recorded this! It's a great book) youtube.com/shorts/Aa0R5...

Well this is just beautiful. naomialderman.substack.com/p/going-thro...

Wow! Over 25,000 signatures the last 24 hours! Add your name! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

BAN THEM NOW!!!!!!!!

Great to see the pond at Knightswood Park looking good again.

With the world on his shoulders ~ magnificently-bearded 15C mason/sculptor Adam Kraft’s strikingly naturalistic depiction of himself, holding chisel and mallet, supporting the intricate gothic tabernacle he created at St Lorenz, Nuremberg (1490s)

Gartentor https://www.wikiart.org/en/august-macke/gartentor

It’s spooky season, but let’s not make it scary for wildlife! 🎃👻 Fake web decorations can trap and injure our garden wildlife. Stick to sustainable, indoor decorations and let real spiders do the work outdoors! Share these tips & help spread awareness 👇

These bunnies look like well-fired rolls

Went to see Scottish Ballet perform Mary Queen of Scots tonight. What a show, absolutely breathtaking. The whole cast were fantastic and the music was unbelievably good. Go and see it if you get the chance. Bhithinn ga mholadh!

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Never had much luck with dahlias due to slugs but got a couple of good ones this year

It’s Bandcamp Friday so I get to keep all the money if you buy my record today. Here it is if you fancy a listen raibeartruadhainn.bandcamp.com/album/4am

Did you know Scotland's first free public lending library is nearly 350 years old? 🤔 Innerpeffray Library in rural Perthshire has welcomed readers from all walks of life since 1680, when it was founded by local landowner David Drummond, the third Lord Madertie.

I've added a video for my song So what now? to my Youtube channel. As ever its minimalist cinema in the extreme, but that's what I like. Hope you like the tune. youtu.be/vkUyymPuSdM

The Waverley heading doon the watter at the Erskine Bridge yesterday on a very rare sunny and hot day in Scotland in July. Hope they've all got their suncream on.

This #MapMonday sail with us down the Caledonian Canal. maps.nls.uk/view/216547749 This beautiful panorama dates from around 1880.

CMS Wrestler going up the Clyde yesterday morning at Marr Hall.

Gartentor https://www.wikiart.org/en/august-macke/gartentor

"Everyone is welcome here," Derek, Principal Librarian with Glasgow Life says -- even Bonnie the spaniel! 🐕‍🦺 Elder Park Library in Govan has a resident therapy pet, Bonnie! Her vital role is to provide companionship to people in the community who are unable to have an animal of their own 🫂

Team news is in from Ochilview for our 10:00am fixture! Trialist between the sticks 🧤 Trialist and Trialist in the centre of the park 💪 Trialist leads the line 🎯 We’re waiting on approval to announce our signings, but there may be a few familiar faces on show today 👀

Lucky for Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland that they aren’t in a union with England like Scotland otherwise they couldn’t have passed their own gender self-ID laws The sky didn’t collapse on any of those countries btw

Brian Wilson wrote some of the music that means the most to be and was a beautiful singer. What a loss. What a life.

Archives are great

Out seeing Pulp tonight at the Hydro. WHAT A SHOW!!!

Saw this guy down at the canal, parasitic wasp Ichneumon bucculentus. Seemingly known as "the chubby-cheeked Inchneumon".

Excellent work West Dunbartonshire Libraries 👏👏

good to see the elegant @scotunipress.bsky.social table (with all those brand new books!) at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 www.sup.ac.uk #EORC25 @dominiquewalker.bsky.social

Today's #TuesdayTip, did you know that you can watch more than 3000 videos on our Moving Image Archive website? 📺 The archive holds everything from recordings of school sports days, Scottish Ballet performances, documentaries, and more 🏅🩰🎥 Explore the catalogue > movingimage.nls.uk

Quite a spectacular poppy has appeared in the garden.

Linking West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire the Erskine Bridge replaced a ferry service when it opened in the 1970s. Seen here from above. #drone #scotland #scottishdrone #dji #pixbypedro #erskine #oldkilpatrick #glasgow #scottishtiktok

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Check the size of these flowers on my cactus. It seems quite happy on the studio windowsill.

First Gertrude Jekyll rose open in the garden. The scent is beautiful. It's also the only rose I know the name of in the garden. I'm trying to train it to grow round the window.

Just pre-ordered this, big fan of Modern Nature. Highly recommended!

I'll save you time; @thejase.bsky.social is the best guitar tutor on YouTube, and I've watched a lot! Give him a follow for clear, simple advice. And, he's a lovely bloke.

If you’re in Edinburgh in August 14th you could get along to this event with @siobhansiobhan.bsky.social Siobhan Wilson and the band she plays with Haiver. I’ve been to a few of these events and they’ve always been great. www.sufrecs.com/live-events

Official Statement from the Administrators of Dumbarton F.C. https://dumbartonfootballclub.com/official-statement-from-the-administrators-of-dumbarton-f-c/

First rose of summer out in the garden this morning

Music bringing people together for millennia! 🪈 🎶 About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this flute was made from a swan’s wing bone. It is one of the World’s oldest known musical instruments! Geißenklösterle cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 me #Archaeology

Great work SUP 👍

Looking out at us from 2,000 years ago in Pompeii ~ this portrait of a toga-clad Terentius Neo holding papyrus scroll, & his wife with a stylus and wax tablet ~ she’s unnamed but depicted as having equal status. Found with panel depicting Cupid and Psyche enthusiastically embracing

Are you a school librarian or work in a school library? 🏫📚 We are offering a week-long paid residency for school librarians or staff who work in school libraries. (1/3)

If you're looking to support new music this bandcamp Friday, as well as buying my record (link in bio) you could pre-order the new Summer Ep from my favourite singer @siobhansiobhan.bsky.social Siobhan Wilson, her music is always sublime so have a listen sufrecs.bandcamp.com/album/summer...

It's bandcamp Friday today so if you felt like supportive me you can buy my record safe in the knowledge that I get all the cash 👍 raibeartruadhainn.bandcamp.com/album/4am

Ceann Loch Goil, abair àite breagha.