Gary McQuade

To Those Who Struggle At This Time Of Year There is always hope

A little message from me that might help anybody who finds this time of year a little tough.

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The 1860s Kibble Palace glasshouse in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens lit by the last bit of this afternoon's sun before the rain clouds blotted it out once again.

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #architecture #architecturephotography #kibblepalace

“Shhhh, Zog! … Here come one now!”

“Shhhh, Zog! … Here come one now!”

I should not have been posting today so you get one song and my holiday pics you lucky people I’m definitely off now wishing you as always a peaceful night and I genuinely mean it (that’s not the half bottle of Sauvignon Blanc talking)

RIP Steve Cropper - one of the greatest guitarists ever

From the other aspect, rainbow has disappeared unfortunately 😉

“Well, we’re ready for the males’ 100-meter freestyle, and I think we can rest assured that most of these athletes will select the dog paddle.”

“Well, we’re ready for the males’ 100-meter freestyle, and I think we can rest assured that most of these athletes will select the dog paddle.”

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

YouTube video by His lordship Blue Boy - His Lordship - tribute to Edwyn Collins

For our Blue Boy...

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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Nice night for it. It’s a rain free Kelvingrove for PiL!

Sign at Kintore, Aberdeenshire. (1972) Pic: DCT.

Birds of a feather and all that - this place also just hit the market in the New Town. search.savills.com/property-det...

Excheese me……..what! 😉

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Monochrome print of a close-up of a large open blossom facing upwards on a heart shaped leaf resting on water

Water Lily (1920) lithograph by artist printmaker Henrietta Shore #womensart

Elbows up, Canada.

Saint Mungo and the robin on an exposed gable of the Scottish Renaissane style early 1900s Bell o' the Brae tenements on High Street in Glasgow. The mural was created by Smug and was painted in 2016.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #mural #stmungo #streetart #glasgowmurals

Bison walking down a snowy road looking straight at the camera.

Balance in all things.

Today is Tatonka Tuesday

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Fox and hoard frost - phwoar ! Thank you Millie Barton @Millnov91 for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

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We Ride At Dawn
(Three Amigos)
(2022)
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Despite its age & standard of turntable (new fangled radiogram) this classic is sounding mighty fine tonight. Tank, a person fave.

So…..that’s where the title ‘rain-town’ comes from.
Pishin down in Glasgow!