@sandy1924.bsky.social
Christian, Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Retired. Good food & drink, films, music, travel. ♦️Airdrieonians FC♦️ Still Yes 🏴 No DMs, keep the chat on the posts. No investment opportunities 🚫 No crypto 🚫 No illumenati nonsense 🚫 No Only Fans/dating/porn 🚫
#MusicSky #LiveMusic
Saw Wreckless Eric for the first time since the Live Stiffs tour in October 1977!
He performed solo, acerbic and wistful songs, on acoustic or electric guitar augmented by an array of effect buttons.
We got stories & anecdotes and even a passage from his book. Great fun!
🇬🇧 ‘bbc Shortbread’ are fully engaged in an Information / Disinformation War on Scotland, and Scottish independence
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I suppose most of us feel anger, horror, disgust, fear & overwhelmed when we see news about the US/Israel war with Iran, Epstein Files, Mandleson and so much more the news cycle, none which I have any control or influence on.
I take some joy in seeing my foraged Few Flowered Leeks fermenting.
UK Defence is reserved to Westminster, its not about England, it's the UK
Tony Blair has criticised the British government for not joining in the war in the Middle East, in the surest sign yet Keir Starmer might be doing the right thing
#WhiskySky
I enjoyed another visit to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society bar in Glasgow on Saturday
Slàinte!
Is it too late for Starmer's Labour to recover progressive voters? If Labour in Scotland is anything to go by, they've never recovered from losing to the SNP in 2007 and joining with the Tories in Better Together for the 2014 referendum.
That's really good!
Sausage supper, or haggis? Great stuff!
#FilmSky 🎥
We really enjoyed The Shepherd and the Bear, an intimate portrait of a way of life that is disappearing with colourful characters and some stunning mountain scenery in the Pyrenees.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2762...
Keir Starmer has described Iran's retaliation as 'outrageous.' This is the same Keir Starmer who declared the Green Party 'extremist' last week. "We should be able to kill muslims without any retaliation," he may have added.
#BookSky 💙 📚
I've not read anything by Albert Camus before, but there's a film adaptation of The Stranger coming out next month, so I wanted to read the book before seeing the film.
Fans of The Cure will know that their 1978 debut single, Killing about Arab, referenced the book.
#FoodSky #Foraging #Fermenting
With the depressing, worrying news from the Middle East and Afghanistan, it was almost therapeutic to pack about a kilo of Few Flowered Leek leaves to leave to ferment for a week or two or three.
I picked the leaves yesterday, prepared and left them overnight .
A picture paints a thousand words, Labour's Scottish campaign conference is a picture of a demoralised and defeated party. Hold your nose and vote Labour is not the winning slogan Anas Sarwar hopes it is. It's the last desperate plea from a dying party. Westminster rule in Scotland dies with Labour.
Really good film, stunning soundtrack
#MusicSky
A favourite band of ours is putting out their second album.
Details below, support if you can
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/EW62zwgW
A new politics of hope was born this morning. We do not need to be the cruel nation that Badenoch, Starmer and Farage want. @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party have shown us we have a choice.
Well played, sir, well played 👌😁
The Greens get their fifth MP in another blow to Starmer's Labour as Reform blame 'woke progressives' for their loss, not their own divisive, hate-filled messages.
#BookSky 💙 📚
Sumption writes well about the lack of trust that damages democracy, but I disagree with him on voting systems (we should ditch FPTP), & what he says about "the misuse of history" on decolonialisation.
Other chapters are well worth reading, eg, on Hong Kong, Israel & Gaza.
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Thank you. That's my name, so, of course.
