I was just listening to her music last night and was lucky enough to see her perform in Glasgow about 10 years ago. She was as relevant and innovative as ever. Toutes mes condoléances.

What a time to be a Bodø/Glimt fan, eh? Fantastic performance.

Thistle v Airdrie today for me. Partick Thistle played their first official game 150 years ago in Feb 1876, a 1-0 victory in Overnewton Park. Also in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, Custer was defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and grey squirrels introduced to the UK.

Ran a route through Glasgow today trying to pass as many Brutalist buildings as I could think of. Suitably grey skies overhead. Anderston Centre, Cafogan Square, Kentigern Building (MOD personnel dept.) 1/n

Tuesday 17th Feb A few #birds from my walk along the F&C Canal from Clydebank > Maryhill.

Lovely to be back at the Citizens Theatre with their version of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. Stripped back and cleverly done.

NEW: Tributes have poured in following the death of a prominent peace and Scottish independence activist.

As a Scottish atheist with diabetes it's just Tuesday, but for those that are celebrating, enjoy your red envelopes/start of your fast/your pancakes. Gong hei fat choy Ramadan Mubarak Eh...happy pancakes

What’s going on in Bothwell? This pretty heritage town near Glasgow is the target of ongoing arson attacks - why can’t police find who is responsible and what do locals think? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Says something about the people I follow on social media that everyone is marking Robert Duvall's passing by talking about A Shot At Glory rather than those less well known films he was in.

Working my way around the Fife Coastal Path. Leuchars to Newport-on-Tay today, on the northern coast of Fife.

Last week in Elgin we came across the grave of Patrick Sellar, once factor for the Duke of Sutherland. I resisted the urge to piss on his grave, but re-read Iain Crichton Smith's book while in The Lismore in Partick today. This meant I could piss on the urinal dedicated to him in their toilets.

Blue skies at last over the Scottish hills. This is Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Beag today 0, shimmering in the sunshine.

Last week in Elgin we came across the grave of Patrick Sellar, once factor for the Duke of Sutherland. I resisted the urge to piss on his grave, but re-read Iain Crichton Smith's book while in The Lismore in Partick today. This meant I could piss on the urinal dedicated to him in their toilets.

Blue skies at last over the Scottish hills. This is Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Beag today 0, shimmering in the sunshine.

After weeks of miserable weather it's lovely to finally get a brief respite from the left w cloud, high winds, and horizontal rain. Buachaille Etive Mòr this fine morning.

Useful primer/reminder on the latest racist oligarch to make the headlines.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Most famous? Would depend which age of person you asked probably. Alan Rough, Bill Forsyth or Sharon Rooney.

As it's International Day of Women and Girls in science here's my favourite photo of my childhood hero, Marie Curie. Taken in 1927 with Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others, 17 people in this photo would win a Nobel prize. One person stands out, because she won two of them.

From Murakami's book "Underground" about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo underground, caused by members of the Aum cult. The book is all about those affected by the crime, but he writes an essay at the end about their ideas, and ability to get drawn into a cult, however you define that.

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

From Murakami's book "Underground" about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo underground, caused by members of the Aum cult. The book is all about those affected by the crime, but he writes an essay at the end about their ideas, and ability to get drawn into a cult, however you define that.

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde

"They will look at the barely-tarnished reputations of those whose names appear & blame not the men themselves, but the women who refused to let the subject drop. " My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on how it's always about money & politics, not the victims, & this is no moment of reckoning.

The Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie. "Knockers Aye Afloat!" as they say around here, inexplicably.

Yay, finally. Elgin!

Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...

‘It’s not very French to change stuff’: how Claire Tabouret’s stained-glass windows cast Notre Dame in new light

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

The Bowlers and the bunnets... Taken #OTD in 1927 - the Shipwrights of John Brown's, at Clydebank. Pic: WDC Arts & Heritage

www.treeoftheyear.org Champions League! VOTE for the Argyle Street ash, and one other... @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social @lostglasgow.bsky.social @pastglasgow.co.uk @sghetorg.bsky.social @glasgowwestend.bsky.social @oakroyd.bsky.social Voting ends 22nd February.

Yoker Athletic 1-0 Easterhouse at halftime in probably the Glasgow derby with teams from as far apart as you can get.

Ooooh! Football, eh?

What a mess. I truly hope this gets sorted out, we need places like this. Got my first pay slip from wonderful Third Eye Centre (okay, I was 7 and my mum had us there during the summer for childcare when she worked in the cafe, BUT I GOT 50p A WEEK IN BROWN ENVELOPE FOR FILLING THE COFFEE MACHINE)

Glad I went to see Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice on my day off. Absolutely fabulous film. Best supporting nod to a few bottles of 15 year old Springbank whisky, one of my favourites (not cheap).

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

I'd read this just before Bruce Springsteen rush-released his Streets of Minneapolis song. It's easy to feel powerless, but you've still got to try. "Why movements need to start singing again." wagingnonviolence.org/2022/12/why-...

Fantastic, pointed, and written with furious élan. She v good. open.substack.com/pub/grainnem...

But could he do it on a December night in Cove?

@metoffice.gov.uk I am not able to see any wind speeds on your mountain/summit forecasts. Are these available somewhere else now following your website update?

Was in Dunning for a race marking Burns Day. Gave me the chance to visit nearby cairn that marks where Maggie Wall was burnt as a witch in 1657. Little is known about her, or whether this commemorates all the women of the area wrongly accused, but it is Scotland's oldest witch trials memorial.

I've been given some more old family photos to look after. I do like this one of my grandad playing the fiddle in about 1920. His family had just moved to Glasgow from Kilmarnock at that time - his dad working in Babcock's as an iron moulder. The other is his school photo, in Parkhead, at that time.

Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers Cloth The Delgados Sacred Paws Chvrches Heir of the Cursed

Mike Tyson in Glasgow before taking on Lou Savarese at Hampden, June 2000.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is definitely one of our most versatile orchestras, I always enjoy seeing them. Tonight's performance with music by the Glaswegian-Egyptian Ayoub Sisters was one of the best things I've seen them do. Absolutely joyous stuff you can get when traditions combine.