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LOST! This juvenile heron is currently in Pilrig allotments, perhaps it's looking for Lochend park? Been in the area a few days apparently... @rspbscotland.bsky.social

14 June. Young visitors to our garden - the local Great Spotted Woodpecker with parents and a young Goldfinch (1 of 2) @rspbscotland.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @woodpeckercentral.bsky.social #BirdingLothian

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

this statement was made just yesterday

If I was Paul McCartney I would apply for this for lols.

Guy Pepper to Henry Pollock: hold my beer.

Imagine if the BBC gave a daily tally of how much money was lost in tax avoidance, or the carbon opportunity cost of not rewilding.

13 June. Port of Leith views of Common Tern colony (100+ seen) 2 Terns looked different with very dark red (almost black) bills and legs. Any thoughts? Looks like the Sterna hirundo longipennis subspecies? @btoscotland.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @lothianrecorder.bsky.social

Theatrical truck.

Nature always finds a way.

There's men in the west end with snow on their boots! Architect Fyodor Schechtel's Russian Village, built in Kelvingrove Park for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition.

I'm looking forward to 'Gardening with Percy Thrower' and 'Composing Timeless Insults' with Oscar Wilde.

Greetings from Edinburgh’s seaside. #Portobello #supermarketSaturday #Edinburgh

Harry Houdini in Aberdeen, at the grave of Wizard of the North, John Anderson. (1909)

Summer 1940, by Sheffield artist Harry Epworth Allen, 1894-1958 (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery). #NorthernArt

The City: Version Two, 1951, by Alasdair Gray. Gouache, pen and ink on paper.

📣 DEADLINE: ⚠️TODAY* is the last day for comments in support of protected cycle lanes on Buccleuch St, Causewayside, Craigmillar Rd, Gilmerton Rd, Mayfield Rd, Old Dalkeith Rd, Braid Rd and Comiston Rd - only takes five minutes to tell CEC what protected spaces for cycling in the city mean for you:

"What traditions?" "Oh, you know the ones."

The White Dam". Raphael Gleitsmann. 1939.

Update on the floating-off of HMS Venturer today - it looks like she is nearly there with the barge having descended at high tide.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: The administrators are scheduling a second creditor meeting to address concerns brought forward over director conduct. If you would like to attend, YOU MUST FILL OUT THE ADMINISTRATORS PROOF OF DEBT FORM (it’s simple and not scary). DM me with your emIl to be forwarded it

Lovely afternoon for the Whit Friday brass band contest in Greenfield, Saddleworth.

“intersex dogs and fat-shaming ventriloquists to avant-garde hair...Ah. Leeks by moonlight. Ken Dodd's suitcase. Nuns playing ping pong...Ah. Margaret Thatcher's handbag. A scanner from Maplin. Netto...Ah."

The gods of Test Cricket will cause two wickets to fall before stumps. That is their way.

@wsc.co.uk Mention on the podcast of Gianni Infantino’s gold sticker in the CWC album reminds me that lucky sticker collectors in 1974 could have snapped up head of the German federation Hermann Gösmann while compiling their World Cup collection.

We used to live in the same Bloomsbury garden square as Alexei Sayle and occasionally saw him getting into his turquoise Alfa 164.

Bray scenes.

“We thought of the kiddiewinks, and frankly we don’t like them at all”

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

on our morning walk and i just told the dogs that we can’t stop at every mailbox. they in turn are asking me why there are so many along the Smelling Trail then

Sensational.

Garden visitor this morning, right outside the kitchen window 🙂 Having just read Raising Hare, I'm amazed at how unique an experience the author must have had, spending so much time and sharing her space with just one of these intriguing creatures.

If you - or someone you know - needs a confidential chat about a comedian / author in the headlines, I’m here. It’s been a privilege to be trusted by so many people so far and I’ve never stopped working on this. Every story counts.

The finished piece. Oil and acrylic on canvas.

Another from my visit to Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh on 11 June 2025

"I once sold some postcards to Morriss-ey and heaven knows I'm miserable now-ow" Look, it scans. I don't care what you say. It scans.

She trusted her instinct, and look where it led.