With the Winter Olympics underway, curling is one again getting mainstream media coverage. However, curling was once a much more popular sport and even in Glasgow outdoor curling rinks, like this one, were relatively common. Cont./ #glasgow #curling #victoriapark #partickcurlingclub #partick

Being right next to the sea, we tend not to get really low temperatures. Unlike Achnasheen, which is roughly half way between the Atlantic and the North Sea, and can get; well... this cold:

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵 1/13 “Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place” —A 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career 💙📚 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/read...

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a Scottish family mystery and the haunting of the ruined Dunmore Park, seen here. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple: www.arachnid.scot/book-h46c/in...

Ancient artifacts containing mysterious engraved symbols have been discovered on Easter Island. alienigenasdopassado.com.br/en/rongorong... #aliens #ancientaliens #ancientastronauts #ancienthistory #UFOs #ufosightings #UAPs #Ufology #ufolovers #extraterrestrials #mysteries

I dont know about my new bookshelf... Not my idea to bring this home.. And i cant fit my books in it.. Ahh.. 🤔

Some more steady drifting from yesterday. There's buffeting on the audio but when you're actually standing there, all you hear is the constant, soft hissing of spindrift. Lovely patterns too 🙂

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. Dunrobin Castle railway station has a background role in the story. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/ets/index.html

Roses are red, coats go on hooks. We made you a love heart, from #Library books. 📚❤️ Happy #ValentinesDay to all our followers but especially YOU because you're our favourite. ❤️

After all the gloom, weI’ve come to Glasgow today to find reliable winter sun. The spectacular Necropolis is looking its best. Updates to all our walks within the city will be live in the next few days.

The Carolina Lullaby and Gaelic Oral Tradition Revisited: Who composed the earliest surviving Gaelic song composed in North America? What were the circumstances? gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/the-caroli...

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Barra’s beach airport is used by the two central characters at the end of the book. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...

Two exceptionally beautifully carved Mithraic altars found in Inveresk, East Lothian, Scotland, are going on display for the 1st time. The Roman altars date to the 140s - when S-Scotland was reoccupied under Antoninus Pius 📷 National Museums Scotland & Duncan McGlynn media.nms.ac.uk/news/rare-ro...

Late tide at Talisker bay #Scotland #IsleofSkye #Talisker www.damianshields.com

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️❤️

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in central Scotland and the far north-west, with Ullapool in Wester Ross having a background role. Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/thr/index.html

Over 10,000 years ago, Ice Age glaciers melted to create the Highland landscape we know today and a handful of adventurers travelled north 🧭 Trace their story through to the arrival of Picts and early Christians at this exhibition at Inveravon Church in Moray: www.digitscotland.com/events/first...

Lace woven sea #Shetland

One from last week. The 'Balgy Gap' was only closed in the 1960s when the bridge was built. Before then vehicles had a +/-70 mile diversion. There are still stepping stones to the east of the bridge for the brave/daft.

A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. The characters visit Ness Battery near Stromness and see the amazing murals on the walls. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-blork/i...

How exciting - I have always wanted to see these altars, the one featuring Sol is particularly amazing! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another in my series of libraries Book fountain at Cincinnati Library #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Stranraer harbour has an important part to play in the hunt for an enemy spy. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

The 3rd Floor of the Seattle Central Library

We are open, incidentally, I just had customers first thing and forgot to post the board. - Michael

I don't want to sound like a crybaby but if I had become an archaeologists, I'd be doing a lot of crying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. Melville House in Fife was a top-secret wartime HQ and is visited by three of the characters. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...

An early start for the Shieldaig creel boat.

Whitekirk St Mary's #EastLothian drawing (after Lorimer) finished. With and without its lime-render. Pre-1914 windows, but probably not original. #Procreate

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. The fictional Sarclet Castle south of Wick has a central part to play in the story. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html

Silver Birch, Braemar #scotland #photography

Storm clouds and sunbeams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. RAF Wigtown has a central role in the book as the search for a spy builds towards its dramatic conclusion. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple: www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...

Dysart, Fife #scotland #photography

Mom's library

I am excited to announce that I will be giving an illustrated talk about my book The Road to Mons Graupius at the wonderful Innerpeffray Library @innerpeffray.bsky.social on Sunday 15 March. Join me if you can, tickets are available here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/shop/ti... #RomanSiteSaturday

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle - including the Chapel Royal - and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/has/index.html

One of the lamp posts outside Glasgow Cathedral. These feature four symbols, a bird, a bell, a tree and a fish with a ring in its mouth. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowcathedral #stmungo #streetlight

One from earlier this week. Glen Shieldaig, Loch Dughaill, Loch Shieldaig, and in the far distance the hills on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. (Note the new deer fencing... this area is due to get 300,000 native trees planted by the Woodland Trust).

The Met Office say that its weather station near Aberdeen has had 16 days with no sun. It's the longest period of gloom ever recorded in the city. Here's Balmedie Beach on better days, to help remind you of the that bright yellow disk in the sky thingy. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/aberdeenshir...

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland. The Dornoch Castle Hotel has a small but significant role in the story. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-atw/ind...

That’s awesome! For your library picture pleasure—the law library at the Iowa State Capitol—one of my favorites! 😍

After a long dry spell, we finally have some weather moving in. I read that in Jan we had just 18% of the usual rainfall total here. It seems to have rained (too much) pretty much everywhere but here.

This is the first printed plan of Ardoch Roman fort in Scotland, produced by antiquarian Robert Sibbald in 1695. Thirty years later, Alexander Gordon described it as 'the most entire and best-preserved of any Roman antiquity of that kind in Britain', which still holds true today! #RomanFortThursday

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Galloway House near Garlieston in Galloway served as a hospital during the war and features in the book. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple: www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland #scotland #MustSee #eastlothian #travelphotography #seaview

A fascinating patchwork of building materials in the wall of St Leonard's Church, Southminster, including recycled Roman tiles, medieval flint and modern brick. #WallsonWednesday