Few years ago the family gave my husband a course of bread making lessons. Best gift we ever gave him. 😉

Is it "move to Dubai"?

Far right protest today: 29 - police officers injured 9 - protestors arrested Proscribed group protests: 0 - police officers injured 1,600 - protestors arrested We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

England has a deeply troubling far-right problem that Keir Starmer is simply not opposing. This has to stop, none of this is about free speech, it is fascism, and it’s out of control. 1/2

Kids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct: 🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances 📉4% hit to UK productivity 📦15% drop in trade 💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉 www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.: Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries

Beautiful display of sweet peas in Corstorphine. The smell of summer.

This is not a 'path'; it is a main commuting artery to the city centre, provides important access to the Western General, and links to many schools, playing fields, and other sites. #roseburn @lewismichie.bsky.social

“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich

So many delays, and so much money wasted on consultations for grand overly ambitious projects, rather than small spends on bollards, bus gates, etc, which would save lives and make active commutes far better.

The thread about the Corstorphine Convalescent Home; “To the Glory of God, for the Welfare of the Poor” The old Corstorphine Hospital was in the news this week as, after a decade of lying empty and abandoned, it finally succumbed to the firebugs. Fortunately the Fire Brigade were quick to bring…

!!!!Save the date!!!! Work on signage ,at long last, to reduce the speed limit on Glasgow Rd from 40mph to 30mph, is to take place 26th- 30th June. Thanks to Cllr Euan Hyslop for the information.

Corstorphine has some gorgeous trees. At one time, these were to be cleared for parking spaces, thankfully sanity prevailed.

Having tried nothing to directly disincentivise car travel, it would appear we're all out of ideas

Today's top charity shop finds, Spode platter and plant pot for £3 each😯 I am actually trying to clear out china I have collected for years, but couldn't pass on these.🤷

A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

My daughter has recently taken up cross stitch and is working her way through comedy series of the 70s/80s😅

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

Call for MP take cuts stance Seven councillors have signed a letter calling on Edinburgh South West’s Labour MP to oppose proposed cuts to disability benefits being considered at Westminster. The letter says that Scott Arthur, an Edinburgh councillor until 2024, has previously voted for cuts that…

I took a large carrier bag of books along to my local Cancer Research charity shop , but didn't make it out without this little haul. Still, at 5 books for £1, all in as new condition, it would have been rude not to, right? #BookSky

Be a Zelensky in a world of Trumps.

For crime writers out there who are introducing much loved pets of the detectives into the novels, allowing them to be maimed, tortured or killed will lose you this reader. It will be my abiding memory of the book.😡 #booksky.

Trump, as a narcissist, is going to tire of Musk very quickly. Musk has no boundaries and is unable to recognise when he is upstaging the "upstager in chief". And what is going on with trailing that poor wee child around with him?

@carltonreid.com reports: Automakers have been packing cars with pricey tech that makes them much more expensive without making them safer. But when the tech that offers the greatest safety benefit is proposed – suddenly the plea is: “We can’t afford it.”

Once you've seen noticed the "Gormless Gap" you see it everywhere Pedestrian space stolen so that careless motorists don't scratch their cars What unintended consequences might emerge from building a world where people are systematically protected from any consequences when they drive carelessly?

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

The mainstream media seem obsessed with Elon Musk's Dad commenting on his son, shouldn't they also invite Jess Phillips Dad on to talk about the danger Musk's comments are posing to his daughter? Whatever happened to balanced reporting?

Great charity shop find for £8. Portmeirion large jug and basin. Christmas present to myself.🙂

Tomorrow's Edinburgh Council meeting, to decide who forms the administration, is shaping up to be a combination of The Sopranos and Handforth Parish Council.

"Children don't read books anymore" "Nobody uses libraries anymore". Replying in loud Pantomime voice... "Oh,... yes they do" 😀 #bookskysocial

5 weeks since the Corstorphine bus gate was scrapped due to angry shouty motorists 😡 www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER! #literacy #libraries #librarians

“We’re LibDems. Trust us, with your city”. theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2024/11/loca...

@alexcolehamilton.bsky.social You are going to have to post a lot more dog pictures to distract from the resignation of Louise Spence, your much lauded newest Edinburgh cllr., only one week after being elected. Shambles

LibDems. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

Great charity shop find today. I know someone who will love this as a Xmas 🎁.

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

Just finished this new novel by Alex Pavesi. Utterly original but a wee bit bamboozling at times! #booksky

daily reminder to support your local library, even if that’s just by checking out ebooks! 📚

Not sure I have set this up successfully, but hope to see ex Twitter friends saying hello.👋