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One of those queer leftwingers. Used to read books for a living. Bad at dusting. Can handle a rawl plug. Half of @overtonmccann.bsky.social 📍Edinburgh 🌊Portobello
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

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ah I'm sad to hear this. I worked on a couple of Denzil's books and he was a copy editor's dream. Professional, unprecious and warm 💛

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing in the history of entertainment has ever bettered singing Mule Train whilst bashing yourself over the head with a tin tray. Nothing

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

there used to be a time when a teen on a bicycle would heave the news into your driveway in the morning and then that was all the news you got for the day in many ways this was a perfect system

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Looking through old photos for a family thing and, wow, I was VERY hard to impress as a baby. Balloons, puppies, xmas crackers, dollies, cakes - face like a wet weekend the whole time.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Collected a dvd from HMV 📀 Bought hot water bottles from John lewis 🥵💧🍼 And sweeties from Hotel Chocolat 🍫 Paid ✨cash✨ into the bank This morning was all bricks, no clicks 😇

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

oh the L Word reboot

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Lloyd Munro on Crossroads has got to be the worst psychiatrist in TV history. We've only seen him treat two people, the first one ended up dead, the second one ended up shooting her ex-husband with a gun and bullets Lloyd had left lying around in his living room.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

listening to a bit of Ella and the lyrics to My Funny Valentine would really get you a punch in the puss irl

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

After 11 years, my time at HuffPost is coming to an end tomorrow. Last week, I learned HuffPost would be ending its dedicated coverage of energy and climate change. So, I took a buyout.

submitted 17 days ago • 623 comments

So lovely today

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

And now it's a bonnie day and I'm away for a walk!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I've been trying really hard not to doom scroll, which is why I've been a bit quiet on here. A few accounts are making me feel a bit better. Thanks especially to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 💛 And just... Solidarity to everyone in the US who isn't ok with nazis etc.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Recording update... So we've got two versions of the single 'Song of Dawn' in the pipeline - one that uses a bit of Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and one that doesn't. Am talking to Lindsey's publisher so fingers crossed they say yes, and that we can afford it 🤞 Gareth's trumpet sounds BRILLIANT on it.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Derelict petrol station in Brora. Pic: Les Armishaw.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Indigo Girls singing 'Closer to Fine' was beautiful last night. 'Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable / And lightness has a call that's hard to hear'... Amazing lineup of women! Amy & Emily, Cathy Jordan, Julie Fowlis, Eddi Reader and Moya Brennan... 💚 #indigogirls

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Cold. Crisp. Beautiful day.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Is Ever Decreasing Circles good? I've never watched it and I'm becoming a big fan of buying old tv box sets. HMV have the whole thing for £12.99

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Well, I suppose I'd better go and try and record some guitar again. Last night I really thought I had it until I was listening back on headphones and could hear what I thought was a weird overtone that turned out to be ME, humming while I was strumming.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Chapter 20 of Middlemarch has some of my favorite passages of all time. It’s a masterpiece within a masterpiece. Here is a quote that changed me as a person.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

If you see this post a gif from one of your comfort shows

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The word "iconic" is thrown around so cheaply these days, but somehow it suited Marianne Faithfull like a bespoke designer outfit from the King's Road. Beautiful and incredibly talented and full of presence. What a woman. RIP, queen.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Right, I've given up on trying to record any guitar today. Got the strumming version of staring at a word until you're sure it is not and never has been spelled like that. Could only hear the off beat.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

behold my tiny oranges! I got this plant as a retirement prez and amazingly it's not dead. Apparently you can eat these? Can't be any harder than the usual easy peeling nightmare, i spose

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Some good news ☺️

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