Graeme Beale

Wheelie bin with St Paul on it

He’s probably had better days to be fair.

But now, even with google assisting can't find it at all.
Does anyone know it, have the link. I think it has the power to be just a really useful #communications tool. I've seen lots of forward projection stuff, but the #history one was so easy to grasp.

UK #climate folks I'm looking for #help. Someone showed me an app that you could put your postcode into and it would show you where in the UK your climate was 20yrs ago, 40 yrs ago etc. It stayed with me because it showed Kinross climate now as being the same as Oxfordshire when I was a kid there.

I believe that's referred to as a jammie dodger in the teaching trade.

The western canon by Harold bloom

Finished the Western Canon by Harold bloom. It’s been my commute reading for months. I have such a sense of him as an irascible old grump. Certain we disagree on many things, and also that the writing was so good that it was worth the grumbling.

Any suggestions for good essay collections folks?

Ah the mocha conundrum.

Galileo You do not have to stare into the sun everyday, It’s brilliance will burn up your sight The dark spots will leave Imprints that will not wash out. We are all drawn to the ever scrolling radiance The candle in our hands that shows us the world Beautiful and terrifying Hypotonic like a stage charlatan. Without light what can we see? We owe the would love Care and attention But do not owe it The windows to our soul. Put down the telescope tonight, love. See the world, the stars, tomorrow, But you can only see them, With your eyes, intact. GB 21st January, 2026

Seems like a good day to remind you not to stare into the sun everyday. #Galileo #poem

Oh that we should live long enough to hear the edgy songs of our youth being turned into the baking tunes cheerful perfume adverts.

Just reported 18 potholes to the council. The website was definitely not designed for batch-reporting. I think they assume no-one will bother, but the last dodgy swerve I had to make on my bike 🚴‍♂️just about finished me.

It should be a one-click app from your phone using the geodata.

Oh my. Perhaps you need cheering up? You can suggest the names for council bin lorries in Sefton. This will work well. Truly the opportunity to vote for rubbish! I’m suggesting Binacle. www.sefton.gov.uk/mysefton-new...

Wildlife crime in Scotland: 2019 annual report The eighth wildlife crime annual report, with new data from the financial year 2018 to 2019.

Old style publication, only as a pdf, much less accessible analysis. www.gov.scot/publications...

Wildlife Crime in Scotland 2024 Statistics on wildlife crime in Scotland 2024 covering the full criminal justice process, from law‑enforcement activity through to court proceedings and sentencing, alongside supporting evidence and i...

RESAS very busy week continues with this year's wildlife crime statistics published today. I think they're much more accessible, better than before RESAS took them over. Really good #stats and #data development. The link to the old style in 🧵in case you want to compare. www.gov.scot/publications...

properly niche.

#Scottish people complaining about kids and 6/7.
I say only ELEVEN.
ELEVEN!
Try Ground Floor.

#nichecasting

Scottish milk production statistics - 2025 Onwards - Quarterly update Data on total estimated volumes of raw milk purchased by dairies (milk purchasers) operating in Scotland. This is a quarterly release providing monthly estimates for the previous quarter.

Ok #RESAS is really churning it out today! New quarterly #statistics release designed to provide a more detailed and timely view of Scottish #milk availability as collected through the Scottish milk survey. www.gov.scot/publications...

June Agricultural Census Ad hoc Requests June Agricultural Census Data Request

Truly one for the #scottish #data nerds. #RESAS agricultural census results published today are split by the 2026 Scottish #parliament #constituency list. I reckon this must be one of the first SG publications to use the new geography. Hats off to the stats team. www.gov.scot/publications...

Nobody puts Shetland in a corner!

Shetland mapping act map

Spotted a Shetland #mapping instruction map in the Kirkwall office today.

This is one of those parts of an Act that I often have to explain to academics in England- no that really is an actual law.

Polar war by Kenneth Rosen book and my toes in very fetching toucan socks.

I realise it’s very much in the news but Polar War by Kenneth Rosen really is as good as they say. Just gives a real sense of a slice of the world I’ve never thought about particularly. Shows why it’s so interesting and current.

Genuinely, completing the National lidar survey will mean so many more of these!

Lost and Found: Rediscovering Scotland’s Forgotten Prehistory - Historic Environment Scotland Blog Sites (Bronze Age barrow, Iron Age fort, and settlement) were found using lidar technology, rediscovering Scotland's forgotten prehistory

Using lidar technology, a Bronze Age barrow, Iron Age fort and enclosed settlement were identified and scheduled by HES

Conversation with a household teenager:
Me: he’s ready for the day!
Teenager: <shrug >
Me: you know, one day you’ll get dressed and shower voluntarily in the morning.
Teenager: no I won’t. Stop lying to yourself dad.

All of our faces
Are accurate self portraits
In the world’s wide frame

Household teenager:
Yeah we’re studying an old play dad. Pretty out of date.
Me: oh is it a Shakespeare?
Teenager:… <withering look >
Me: Ibsen? George Bernard Shaw?
Teenager: it’s from right back in the nineties dad.

Me- crawls off to count my pension.

Strong 2026 energy here.

It’s up there with salt and sugar reformulation in food over the past five years. Totally unnoticed by the public, which is exactly the point. Weirdly only noticed in drinks- leaning to the irn bru 1901 debacle.

What an utter delight!😀

Realistically a better name for scatter cushions would be bed shrapnel. Just as unwelcome.

Actually feeling it’s very Bluesky that you could follow the rugby 🏉 and/or curling 🥌 on my feed, but currently no other sports. Saturday’s not usually a big sporting day is it?

That’s the rugby done, phew. Now onto a relaxing shot at the curling.