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Bike toolkits and repair stations | Transport & Parking | Transport and Parking Bike toolkits and repair stations are available free of charge to staff and students cyclists.

For anyone that may find it useful, there are a number of Edinburgh uni locations with bike maintenance toolkits and pumps.

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“Karusellfesten / The Carousel Party", by the fabulous Tove Jansson, a poster published in Finland during the 1950s.

This Burnished Land, by whitelabrecs 14 track album

A wee plug for an album my brother is involved with. If you like ambient music ( and who doesn't) then go and buy this.

#BlueSkyMusic
#MusicBlueSky
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#NowPlaying
#whitelabrecs
#ThisBurnishedLand

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

Sorry Gregor. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#AsOne @scotlandrugbynews.bsky.social
#Scotland #CalcuttaCup #SixNations

A love heart made of red books surrounded by the white page blocks of other books

Roses are red,
coats go on hooks.
We made you a love heart,
from #Library books. 📚❤️

Happy #ValentinesDay to all our followers but especially YOU because you're our favourite. ❤️

A series of extracts from Charles Darwin’s letters and journals that reads: I hate every wave of the ocean. -Charles Darwin to W. D. Fox 15 Feb 1836 Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties. -Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 11 Mar 1858 I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world. -Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley, 10 Sep 1860 1 am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. -Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1 Oct 1861 I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -Charles Darwin to John Lubbock, 3 Sep 1862 1 am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody. -Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker 23 Jun 1863

I feel you, Charlie, I feel you 😆

Don't we all!

OK, this is weird but I have to know. Does anyone remember a cute British comfort food restaurant in Manchester's Northern Quarter that served Mrs Kirkham's Cheese On Toast and, and here we come to the point, a dish named after Michael Palin. Mention in next book for info received.

This is a *really* good thread 👇🏻

Longlist - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd Highland Book Prize 2025 Longlist Announced The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2025 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Thi...

The longlist for the 2025 Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd | Highland Book Prize has been announced. The Prize celebrates the talent, landscape, & cultural diversity of the Scottish Highlands & is open to works of fiction, non-fiction, & poetry
💙📚
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/

When I was young I spent ages of an evening going through the shortwave dial on my transistor radio, catching snippets of stations hidden in the ether. This poem brought back that feeling.

Radio Lento written in the sand at Burgh Island, Devon

Happy Radio (Lento) Day!

Do you have a go-to episode? Or find one to fit your mood or activity? Some super fans are listening to them all in order!

What's your Lento vibe?

#RadioDay

Tuning the Dial We’re lost in music, caught …………… at second slip, low down, by the outstretched hand of ……………….. the US vice president, JD Vance, who was spotted ... …………..….…. working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when …………………. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 was premiered in the …………………..… Forties. South or southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale ………..………… from Croydon is on the line, who wants to talk to us about ……………………….… why Aviva life insurance is right for you and …………………………………... offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I’m right or ………….…….….. left wing but there’s nobody in the centre and the ball gets cleared to ………..…….. ….......….…..... Oscar Wilde, who famously announced ‘I have nothing to declare except …………….…………… .……….….. I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long. Brian Bilston

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

Vassilissa in the Forest, by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.

Those skeletons in the background. How wonderfully sinister.

Owls and trees, what's not to like? Sleep well!

tall trees at night in winter.

This week's episode is 60minutes from a wood in Derbyshire in the middle of a dry, windy night. There are just a few owls at the start, then it is *sleep safe*. We hope you love it as much as we do. ❤️

Episode 292 - Moorland trees in December gales
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-yhret-1a44713

My photo shows a ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Sequamur Edited and introduced by Michelle Macleod with additional material and editorial assistance from Emma Dymock and Laurence Cavanagh. Thanks to Scottish Government funding, free class sets of Sequamur…

Thanks to funding from the Scottish government, ASL is offering free class sets of Donald S. Murray’s play SEQUAMUR – a set text for Higher English – to secondary schools in Scotland. See our website for details:
@educationscotland.bsky.social @qualifications.gov.scot
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A photo collage of some of my original miniature artworks, all are 7.5 x 7.5cm and will fit a 3" square frame: A portrait of a fox in profile, forget me not flowers, a bumblebee, pink cosmos flowers, an ammonite fossil, a ladybird, a goldcrest bird, a burrowing owl and a blackbird.

My art shop has a collection of inexpensive original miniatures in a variety of nature subjects.
Good news for buyers in the USA, your art will be sent duty paid, and art is exempt from the tariffs!
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#NatureArt #Drawing #Miniature #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #bsnm

K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

A painting of Scottish bluebell flowers with a background of blue, purple and green patches with splashes of gold. Bluebells emerging in ancient woodlands to flower and leaf from April onwards. Millions of bulbs may exist in one bluebell wood, causing the blue carpets we so keenly associate with spring. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Watercolour and mixed media painting on acid free watercolour paper. Approximately 6x8"(15.24 by 20.32 cm) will fit an 8x6" standard frame.

One of the most magical sights of spring here in Scotland is a carpet of bluebells in a woodland.
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#Bluebells #Flowers #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #bsnm #ShopIndy

Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down;

Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards

Ministers saying it's the end game...

Happy Sunday from The Boss. A week til he celebrates his 15 Year Anniversary in Downing St. He was meowing at me today, a rare but surefire sign that snacks must be provided as the before and after pics show.

A naive representation of an owl on a small flat slate sheet. The body is depicted in alternating white and dark triangles. Crucially, this owl is not playing American Football.

It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
🏈🦉

#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

screen shot from Pixar's Soul of the main character playing a piano

Feeling a out of sorts so put on Pixar's Soul. It should be prescribed to everyone who's lost their way. One of their best

This has been a wonderful opening ceremony. Forza Italia.

(also grazie)

#olympics2026

So... krona? It's swede-ish currency?

The Washington Post has laid off every reporter and editor covering the Middle East and Ukraine. Looks like Trump doesn’t want any reporting of those critical areas.

Loot that drops after defeating me:
1) Two pairs of glasses
2) Noise cancelling headphones that don't connect to anything
3) A good stone
4) Mug of cold tea
5) Mysterious coin with what looks like a code wheel on it