Very few folk turned out to protest about immigration in Dundee today but there were lots of us there to counter them just in case. We were a strong friendly crowd, singing and chanting all afternoon, reclaiming the saltire and welcoming refugees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎶 #dundee #scotlandwelcomesrefugees #saltire

*Stand with New Dundonians - Refugees are Welcome Here!* The far-right are targeting refugees in Dundee again this Saturday 20th September - again, we say no in oor city!

Available to watch online - well worth your time: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #EdinburghBookFestival #AClimateOfTruth

So many people are getting in touch asking if they can get back copies of Friday's paper The answer is no ... we are completely sold out. Everywhere. You can order a poster version here though! www.thenational.scot/news/2534754...

Brilliant work @vadundee.bsky.social just now - 'Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine'. Free entry to this exhibition with detail, history, art, politics and beauty - all in a couple of small rooms. #dundee #tatreez #palestine #embroidery

Been away, caught a few rainbows on the way 🌈 #rainbows #northumberland #dumfriesandgalloway

Did a section of the Dundee Green Circular on Saturday (about 12 miles anticlockwise, on foot not bike) as part of my #KiltwalkDundee prep. Lots to see along the Dighty Burn and beyond 📷 #dundee #walking

I've been out walking a bit recently to get ready for #DundeeKiltwalk in August. Here are a couple of last week's local sights 📷 Dog artwork by Paco Graff #StreetArt #dogs #Dundee #walking

Recent reading/listening. Somethings old, something new(ish), something borrowed etc. I've switched to @libro.fm for audio, still using Libby app for free ones too. #books #booksky #audiobooks

Tree songs for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social How about 'Niel Gow's Apprentice' by the marvellous Michael Marra? Mentions 'the fiddle tree' in Dunkeld (Burns used Gow's tunes..). Others have released versions of Marra's song (incl. Fairport Convention). #MichaelMarra www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QM...

With so much negativity in the world it was many happy breaths of positivity to finally witness the Spell Songs project live on stage at the weekend. Beautiful music, lovely people, all the good tears. And "let the raven call you home" to fade... 🎶 🦊 #SpellSongs #Edinburgh #LiveMusic #LostWords

Just back from a lovely trip up north. Beautiful views of Kyle of Sutherland (from house and riverbank/river), a dip in Loch Shin and more sun than we knew what to do with... #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #Sunshine #Sutherland

Was reminded today of all the 4-line poems (mostly political in content) that I wrote for the other place. I put them all together in a post a while back: slowlaneshuffle.blogspot.com/2020/06/twee...

Fields around Errol, Perthshire, yesterday 🌞 #scotland #perthshire #april

Beautiful sunshine at Greyhope Bay, Torry, Aberdeen on Thursday 🌞 #scotland #aberdeen #GreyhopeBay #torry

Could you tell folks that my album is coming out on 4th April? It would be most helpful. Thank you. findlaynapier.ffm.to/outsider

Finished reading this today. One of those wow books - just reading it made me tired, can't imagine writing such a thing. First published in 2018, I don't know I missed it up till now, especially when, according to the quotes, everyone else in the world has read it already. #Books #Booksky

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social according to no 19 in this list from Rolling Stone, it was someone else who brought in that whistle... I don't know which is fact and which fiction: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Interesting to hear some Byron on this week's #Paradise A few years back my partner @markonline.bsky.social made this track using the same poem (vocal by @josephmillson.bsky.social ): markived.bandcamp.com/track/dark-t... #ParadiseHulu #poems #tv

Fine music in B Ferry, Dundee yesterday. Hannah Read, Michael Starkey and Cahalen Morrison kept us spellbound with old-time sounds, originals and covers. @cerysmatthews.bsky.social 'The Fungi Sessions Vol 1' is inspired by fungi and her father mycologist Nick Read 🍄 Made for you 😊 #ScottishMusic

Dundee morning 📷 #dundee #scotland #rivertay

Didn't know the Dundee Tapestry was back on display at V & A Dundee but it is 😁 Also Orkney (and other places) featured in A Fragile Correspondence. Both exhibitions are free, no paid exhibition currently. #DundeeTapestry #dundee @vadundee.bsky.social

Dundee, yesterday morning. #rivertay #dundee #scotland

Saw the Bob Dylan film yesterday (it's ok ...) and was reminded that some years ago when living in the kind of place and time where trampolines were all the rage I had a play with "Blowin' in the Wind". Apt today perhaps for #StormEowyn #BobDylan #ACompleteUnknown

A Glasgow window view from Saturday morning, looking over Central Station #glasgow #scotland #scottishphotography

Saw this exhibition in Glasgow on Saturday. It's so worth a visit, a review of an amazing career. In Glasgow till 11 Feb then up to Stromness ♥️ #ScottishArt #WomenArtists

I wrote this poem in 2023 when a dear friend was given a terminal cancer diagnosis. She died in mid December 2024 and it would have been her 67th birthday today. I never shared the poem with her because she didn't need it - she already knew how to get the most out of her time: youtu.be/4odFgAuvnEU

Wanting interesting interviews with nae waffle (and no repetitive podcast endorsements)? This series on BBC Sounds has some great talk. So far I've enjoyed Kirsty Young with @irvinewelsh.bsky.social , Daniel Kaluuya, Steve Coogan and Naomi Klein 📻 #youngagain

Currently stuck in my head (and jostling for space with Wicked songs...): #music #MargaretGlaspy www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue3f...

Elephant Rock, Angus, yesterday. #scotland #angus #rocks

A week in the country #scotland #angus