Mark Gill

Lol on the train

Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Mustard gas

England and Wails...

Familiar patterns here

Only past through Cruden Bay on the coach - looked like a really nice stretch of the coast.

Visited Peterhead yesterday - insane that you can't get a train there.

Seems suboptimal

Welcome to Coatdyke!

School leaders agree: daily worship requirement is outdated.
Scrapping it would create room for cultural and moral development in our schools.

#EducationReform

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

The real threat to labour isn't bumbling Corbyn - it's the greens.

Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills.

The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."

Gatwick given green light for £2.2bn second runway plan Heidi Alexander approves expansion to allow 100,000 more flights a year

"Zack Polanski described a second Gatwick runway as a “disaster”. “Ignores basic climate science and risks undermining efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

“Labour keeps wheeling out the same nonsense about growth, but at what cost?”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Not sure this is the way to go - it convinces no one?

Maybe just be normal about it.

Still comes across as pretty weird when no national success has occurred, sporting or otherwise

I feel that 15 items is inviting failure. Hope you had a good weekend

Woman on a rocky mountain summit with patches of snow amongst the rocks.

View from a mountain across to a loch in a corrie and more mountains beyond.

Two people on a rocky mountain, Beinn Eighe in Torridon. Sunny skies.

Part of the Beinn Eighe massif, a rocky and steep mountain

Snow!❄️
Not what we expected on a September trip to Torridon, but a good reminder to prepare the pack for winter.
Great to be out with @redropescot.bsky.social pals. A cold wind, but we got lots of ☀️ too.

A very handsome five storey blonde sandstone tenement building of 190, at the foot of University Avenue in the West End.

#Glasgow

Deus ex machina

If you want to hear what Oxford Street without motor traffic sounds like, turn up this video.

It’s basically just bustling and chatting 🎶🎶 … 6/11

Britain's best gimp

Glasgow

Actual lol in the pub garden at this

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.

And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.

Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

Cancelled my Disney Plus this morning. Going to run out of channels at this rate

What should be the response in Scotland to a ReformUK Westminster general election win?

It's at least possible they get a majority or form the UK govt with support from smaller parties.

What should be the response in Scotland to a ReformUK Westminster general election win?

It's at least possible they get a majority or form the UK govt with support from smaller parties.

My fav photo of me