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Absolutely, but it does have plenty 🦦

@gregorpenman.bsky.social
Better late than never …😬

Today's short thread - wicked historical women, because not everybody's granny was a saint, right? 1st up, the Duchess of Sutherland, who ordered vicious evictions on her estates during the Clearances. There's a memorial to her in a pub in Partick, where she is named on a urinal. 😂 /1

Dashing through the snow.. 😅

Old Photograph Murray Place Street St Andrews Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family History Blog photography of buildings on Murray Place in St Andrews, Fife. Surname Murray was first found in Moray, where Clan founder, Freskin, received lands of Strathbrock tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2019/07/old-...

One of the shit things about getting older is that you start to hate Christmas songs you once loved. The sheer ritualized repetition of them every year grinds you down, inducing groans where there once was euphoria.

Antidote: disco. Alternative playlist and dancing.

lol

Barra Head On Visit To The Outer Hebrides Of Scotland

Tour #Scotland travel video Blog, with Scottish music, of Barra Head, also known as Berneray, Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh; the southernmost islands on visit and trip to the Outer Hebrides. Built by Robert Stevenson, has operated since 1833 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/03/barr...

Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country

When you can't let the cat go out because he might invade Poland

Ruthven Barracks (Scotland) 'Historic Scotland' image & reconstruction mock-up of earlier Tower of 'Ruthven Castle' held by Alexander Stewart, the Wolf of Badenoch. Alex died here in either 1394, 1405 or 1406 during a thunderstorm while playing chess with the Devil! #RuthvenCastle #MedievalSky

'What?'

Kisimul Castle, Castle Bay, Barra (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up with hoarding suggestion. A Macneil family stronghold. #KisimulCastle #ScottishCoastalCastles #HistoryRebuilt #MedievalSky

May your table be heavy and your heart be light this day!

HAPPY ST ANDREWS DAY to all the peoples of Scotland and beyond!

Remember “Forgive your enemy … but remember the bast**ds face!”

A rare poster from January 1963, just before the Alex Sutherland Sextet stormed America and became superstars...

Standing tall beside the Cromarty beach, the Emigration Stone looks out through the Sutors of Cromarty to the open sea.

It was a view taken in by thousands of Scots as they boarded dozens of ships to leave their homeland behind.

#Scotland #HighlandClearances

Updated bucket list entry: Going down this snowy street on a sledge (maybe after a few drams in The Bow Bar).
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Old Photograph Tranent Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland Ancestry Travel visit #Genealogy Scottish Family History Blog photography of cars. houses, shops and people in Tranen. It is approximately eleven miles east of #Edinburgh. It is one of the oldest towns in East Lothian tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2010/02/old-...

@mysterytrain.bsky.social We meet again…😆

Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.