Bernie Hughes

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Judging by that bio, yer no missing much 🤨

A woman sits on a low pile of rough grey stones in a grassy Highland landscape. She has short dark hair with a streak of white at the front and wears a black long-sleeved top, blue jeans, and brown hiking boots. One hand rests on her knee and the other on the stones beside her. Behind her are rolling hills, patches of trees, and steep, rocky slopes. The light is bright, and the scene looks calm and windswept. Photograph by Christie Hemm Klok

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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?

The answer is simple.

#Reading #Writing #NatureWriting #Nature #Scotland #Books

Let them hear it in the night!

Used to live just round the corner. Always thought it was an odd pub, especially when they changed the sign outside to 'Joox' for a while 🤨

Spotify screenshot: Your listening age 77

Spotify screenshot: Giacomo Puccini is your top artist

Spotify screenshot: Your top songs (assorted Northern Soul numbers)

Spotify screenshot: Your top podcast History of the Germans

More than a bit misleading as only a fraction of my listening is through Spotify but anyway.

Good morning with Tomas Tranströmer ciceronean us to the beginning of Winter

A Winter Night

The storm puts its mouth to the house
and blows to get a tone

However, her decision to skip the first day of proceedings is likely to go down badly with Corbyn and his aides. It is understood that one of her supporters, James Giles, a councillor in Kingston, was barred from entering the conference centre. Other members were expelled on Friday over alleged membership of the Socialist Workers party.

Kingston councillor working for George Galloway on Rochdale by-election says role is ‘perfectly legitimate’ 25/02/2024Charlie Johnson Cllr James Giles, who leads the Kingston Independent Residents Party on the Kingston Council, has said that his role as a “strategic campaigns consultant” for George Galloway’s Rochdale by-election campaign does not conflict with his work on the council.

wait the person whose barring from the Your Party conference led to Zarah Sultana's boycott of day 1 was George Galloway's election agent last year!??

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Wild is certainly, unexpectedly, the word in this case. Banville is an absolute master of prose composition; his capacity to present elaborate lexical flexes in minutely precise prose is unparalleled. But there's a sense that something has broken apart here, plot-wise. In a good way, hatching. Wild.

Book cover of 'The Singularities' by John Banville.

Things newly read:

'The Singularities' by John Banville.

#Books
#BookSky
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Folk shuffling around food banks in tears, Government telling us to tighten our belts, and we still have this load of old fucking bollocks going on.

#ffs #poverty #austerity #SameOldFeudalSystem #AbolishTheMonarchy

Illustration by Edward A. Wilson 1952. Black-and-white drawing of Messrs. Utterson and Enfield, dressed in tailcoats and top hats, walking down a London street at night. Text: "Did you ever remark that door?"

“Well, it was this way,” returned Mr. Enfield: “I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning ..."

Mr Enfield leads us on the dark journey that we know as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson.

#WyrdWednesday 🩸📚💙

Well we did use it to watch C4 Italian fitba in the early 90s. Otherwise mostly Sega Megadrive...

My brother rescued a portable TV from a skip once, looked very like that.

2025 Year in Review: I'm a top 3% learner on Duolingo!

Universes collapsing into one 🫨

Ha ha. Very appropriate

This is as good as it gets.

Man perfectionism is a curse

Worse ways for a prediction to go wrong tbf

Scored what looked like the 3-2 winner on about 89 mins then they scored twice in injury time to make it 3-4, so your prediction wasn't far wrong

2-1 down at half-time, all to play for & no even raining 💪

I have indeed 😅. But predicting results at this level is a whole other level of crystal ball gazing anyway 🤪

Forgot to say @pjdlondonscot.bsky.social we had the annual exchange with Orient last weekend, 5 of them up from London in the Woodside with us before & after the game #LOFC

Definitely nil nil now then 😉

Advert for today's match between EK Thistle & Saltcoats Victoria

I've seen EK Thistle play today's opponents twice before; a 6-1 victory & a 1-7 defeat. Not an easy one to predict, 0-0 seems a likely bet 🤔

#EKTH
#WoSFL

The giant Albion, and his mysterious emanation (who is dark and female - interesting!). By William Blake, whose day is today.

Generally prefer the wireless tbh, unless it's a Friday night with a few tins sort of thing. Otherwise I get fuck all done 🤷‍♂️

Aye pretty much the same deal as the Orient app, except you need to listen through the website, that's what I'm on atm