If you look carefully, atop the neo-Tudor catacombs & set back from the fence is a raised grassy area, curiously devoid of stones. Instead there are two modern benches on its perimeter, facing towards the catacombs & into the trees. This blank space is the footprint of the former mortuary chapel. 2/

Did you know that Warriston Cemetery once had its own chapel? Built in 1842-3 & demolished by 1930, all that remains are scant black & white photographs, Victorian engravings & the original Edinburgh Cemetery Company plans that are held within the Peddie archive, now part of HES. 1/

£47M could have been a lot of affordable housing for the Highlands.

Half an hour doesn't give him much time to pack up his office, never mind No.11.

The amazing & slightly manic Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire. Built for Sir Francis Willoughby in the 1580s, painted in 1697 by Jan Siberechts of Antwerp. Today is his day.

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

*taps the sign*

BBC is getting far too clickbaity. It's embarrassing. These medals aren't 'breaking' - according to the story the ribbon is becoming detached on one or two of them. That's it. There is no story.

Wrexham! (you don't have to put on the red light)

There's a welcome repeat of Michael Palin's Number 27 tomorrow night on BBC Four. Madly, this is its first screening since 1988. Newly shot intro by the man himself. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Litter picking session in Stenhouse Mill area with @wolct.bsky.social this morning; slow start picking out plastic shreds from hawthorn bushes but still collected 4 bags plus a sink!

Anyone know what this is? I like the look of it.

People need to be told to wind their neck in more often. Underused phrase.

Carlisle United captain Chris Balderstone shakes hands with his counterpart from AS Roma ahead of their 3-3 draw at Brunton Park in the 1972 Anglo-Italian Cup. Carlisle had stunned Roma in Italy by winning 3-2, with the Roma squad admitting that they had been taught a lesson by the Cumbrians.

Two #Jacobite wineglasses (mid #c18th #c18 #18thc), at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (est. £600-800)

Saying "teamwork makes the dream work" should mean instant disqualification from any public office for life.

#OtD 9 Feb 1962 bagel bakers in New York City and Nassau County walked out on strike, reducing the bagel-hungry city's supplies by 85%. Around 300 workers at 36 employers remained out for a month, until the employers acquiesced to the workers' demands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...

On yesterday’s RadMac a guy from Rutherglen was taking part in The Chain and mentioned, almost in passing, plans for a Scottish Rock Museum in Glasgow. Managed to track down some of the folk involved and learned it could be ready to open in a couple of years www.heraldscotland.com/news/2583631...

Y'all ever think about what society could be like if we were allowed to turn our substantial technological innovation to the good of humanity instead of the snowballing wealth of oligarchs?

They should just swap jobs and surnames. Anas Starmer and Keir Sarwar. No one would notice the difference.

amazing that every time i bring this up people are unaware of it. he really got away with it

We need stricter punishments for misuse of the Breaking News graphic

Macbeth: SHIT

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

This is why the regular engine idling from drivers at school pick up and drop off should not be happening. You might be keeping warm, but at what cost to all the other children who get the pleasure of breathing it in as they walk to school. Especially bad for young lungs. Please don't do it. 🙏

Olivier; Vaughan Williams; Stanley Spencer; Freud; Bacon; Clapton....there's no shortage of them.

Can’t wait to see the Super Bowl half time entertainment.

What a superb owl! Perky pre-Colombian finial.

Perhaps we should experiment with listening to women for a change.

I would watch the Superbowl thing if they didn't always put it on so late. Why not start it at 3pm like a proper fixture.

chickpeas? i sure hope she does

This must have been during a heatwave in Glasgow. You can tell from how dry, dusty and washed out everything looks; how strong the contrast is. And the woman is wearing her lightest raincoat, with no head square.

will i understand super bowl LX if i haven't seen super bowls I-LIX

‘Sue Perkins has emailed her interview answers back’ ‘Yeah, I saw… the weird thing is, no-one sent her any questions’

‘Is the artist going to be here at all?’ ‘It’s unlikely’ ‘Other commitments?’ ‘Sort of, she died in 2013’

[on phone] ‘Hello? Yes, I was hoping you could help me. I've run out of superlatives for rappers’

Just watching the luge

Pong Guard

Because the federal paramilitaries are ALSO human beings, and they are being shipped to a frozen hellhole where people panopticon the shit out of them, harass their sleep and off hours, spit in their food, and they *are not getting paid*.

We have had weeks of gales in #Shetland with many days when the ferry was unable to sail and supermarket shelves are empty. We are lucky to have some amazing locally produced food and everyone keeps plenty spare in cupboards and freezer.

"If we say we'll 'try' then that means people won't be too disappointed when we don't really do anything"

What a delight to have met this little fella in the flesh a few weeks ago! Found in northern North Holland province in 2024, the tiny 10C/11C gold and enamel fibula is thought to represent a saint or secular elite figure. Leiden, @rmoudheden.bsky.social, g 2024/3.1

remember, if you're going to a big super bowl house party, bring an extra hand towel so you won't have to use the extremely damp community one in the bathroom

Executed (alas!) on this day in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots. Here just seven years old and already a queen at the court of France. Drawn by Clouet.

Argh another Talent Gatekeeper! They're everywhere!

The secret to success in any creative field in the future is not going to be making interchangeable formulaic crap. It's going to be making stuff only you could make.

mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

Don't you long for simpler times when all we had to worry about were highwaymen, footpads, pickpockets, press gangs, high rates of infant mortality and low average life expectancy. And the plague. And no dentists or anaesthesia. Sometimes I do.