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An angel with a skull and sheaves of corn on the 1686 memorial to Thomas Robertson in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. It was inside the church originally, but was removed in the major restoration of 1883.
#MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday

https://maps.nls.uk/view/228781718 25" Ordnance Survey Map (detail) Drawing for Edinburghshire I.16 Revised: 1906, Published: 1908, on a blue of previous edition Size: sheet ca. 71 x 104 cm (ca. 28 x 41 inches)

Sometime in early 1902, my great grandparents, Samuel Annal and Margaret Miller, travelled from their native Orkney to Edinburgh. They would have arrived in Leith Harbour and I often wonder what their first impressions must have been of the hustle and bustle of the docks.

#MyFamilyHistory52Maps

A small alien figure falling through gradients of blue. The text reads 'POLBLAR TMOLKOP - Andrew Blair'

Launching a Book (Edinburgh version) at 7pm on Thursday 9th April at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, if you're into that sort of thing lighthousebookshop.com/events/polbl...

#Edinburgh Airport just now. Three Chinook helicopters overhead. No drones or missiles as far as I can tell!

#OTD 460 years ago, David Rizzio, secretary to Mary Queen of Scots was murdered.

Mothers Day decorations, cards and all you need for you MUM, its on SUNDAY the 15th

You need pegging out

Phwoarrrr 👕👖👚

I'm sure I saw an episode of Casualty that began like that!

here's my edinburgh themed painting for today's exercise with @zoedarme.bsky.social. the robert burns statue in leith, in front of the old corn exchange building at the intersection of constitution and baltic, dusk, 5 august 2005 #artsky

It was a good drying day eh?

Sad to hear that The Dower House in Corstorphine got broken into last night 😢

Black and white photo of Barbara Laidler washing a stone on West Kennet Avenue. Photo ©Alexander Keiller Museum.

Black and white photo of Margaret Stewart at the Carse Farm excavation in 1964. Photo from: https://breadalbane-heritage.org.uk/about/history/margaret-e-c-stewart-in-breadalbane-heritage-society/

Fun fact about us for #InternationalWomensDay - our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class🥇in #Archaeology MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🏺

Blossom tree, blue sky

Donkeyfield Community Orchard, Brunstane, Edinburgh

Sounds perfect!

St Margaret of Scotland and St Helen, by Marjorie Kemp, 1938 in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh for #StainedGlassSunday.

Quality Yard 360 Street Art, Edinburgh: @transpeopleloveyou

#mccwanders #streetart #edinburgh #travel #onehumanfamily

Quality Yard 360 Street Art, Edinburgh: Surface Noise (send me an @ account if you know it)

#mccwanders #streetart #edinburgh #travel

Sad to see the demolition of what was once Edinburgh’s Clouds nightclub. So many memories of gigs there, Simple Minds, Big Country, Haircut 100, The Colourfield and the finest gig of my life, Dexys Midnight Runners (1981).
Home of the Hoochie Coochie club too

Yesterday I visited Saughton Park for the Holi Festival of Colour, and I learned that records of this park date back to 1128, and that Saughton shares its name origins with Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow - both coming from the Scots word for a willow tree, 'sauch'.

What looks suspiciously like a church on its side flying across a loch

Skye. A ship rising above a beach in the Scottish highlands. The tide is out.

“Dundee” shows a couple of ships seemingly resting on clouds

My print Applecross Beach framed and on a bookcase

My scottish UFO prints are now a frankly ludicrous £20 each down from 30. 11 available. 20cm by 20cm giclée prints. Thank you for your warm applause. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/listing/1832...

On International Women’s Day we think of all the fabulous women past and present - including the female crew members at RNLI Queensferry who finished speaking to us and then headed out on a shout to rescue people on Cramond Island who were stranded without food and water

The sun is absolutely glorious today, and the window is full of treasures—including a copy of The Hobbit that is just itching to find a home in somebody’s pocketses.

Another fairytale in the supermarket. Stash of late 90s/early 00s Chapman mags from a golden age of Scot lit mags, 50p each from the wee charity bookshop in Broughton Road Tesco. Methinks someone is clearing out their cupboards. This is history.

Currently strolling through Chambers Street...

Okay but there’s a penguincam at the Edinburgh Zoo and they’re up being weirdos at all hours of the night ❤️
www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals/webc...

A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)