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Good point well made, but worth noting that the painting shown is late 19th Century and many of the structures are likely timber and brick.

Celtic and Scottish Studies Seminar Series: Terry Gunnell | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture An online seminar by Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) titled 'Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends'.

Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends
5 Dec, online – free

In this seminar, Prof Terry Gunnell will explore the Nordic connections of Orkney legends & folklore
#folklore #Orkney
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

Birmingham historic building fears blamed on staff shortages The Victorian Society writes to Birmingham council's boss over a lack of conservation staff.

Birmingham historic building fears blamed on staff shortages - BBC News share.google/2FmiEmEQyPvF...

Take care with hand coloured photographs and postcards - many in Scotland are greatly misleading.

Any thoughts on the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza as a model for Linlithgow Palace as originally built (or vice versa) and as an example of what it could be?

Passing time in Paul Cezanne's Studio.

What is that flag?

Job losses at Scottish factory as 150-year-old firm hit by Trump tariffs JOB losses have been announced at a historic Scottish factory after a “difficult summer” ...

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Waves hitting Scotland:

www.thenational.scot/news/2545944...

Dig diary - spectacular carved head found in week two at Skaill farm - Archaeology Orkney An unexpected and spectacular find - a carved sandstone head.

A fantastic find this week at Skaill Farm on Rousay, Orkney a red sandstone head with some similarity to carvings at St. Magnus cathedral and built into the old parish church of St. Mary.
🏺via @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social

Are there words for chanterelles/giroles in Scots and Gaelic? Surely one of Scotland's most giving forage species.

That (or one in the series) is the one I saw in an Edinburgh charity book shop and mentioned to you previously, at the Wighton. I'll try to check out the shop on the off chance it is still there - don't there was much demand for it!

Fulbright scholar Ivana Prica Miladinovic, researching the impact of John Cage's work on Eastern European music and art, visited us at JCT. Here's Ivana about to read through a 1984 letter from musicologist Niksa Gligo from Zagreb about Cage's participation in the Music Bienalle Zagreb Festival.

"Councillor Sean Ferguson spoke up during the meeting about the rebuild of the Mackintosh building. He said: "What context are we to consider this in? In no other situation would we be considering the impact on a burnt-out ruin of a building."

...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?

Castle?

Whisky oil fish

I swapped city life for the Scottish Highlands and saved £500 a month Life in Scotland costs about £342 less a month than in England. Plus, free prescriptions, cheaper public transport and beautiful scenery mean less spent on holidays

If you ever wondered what life might be like in Scotland:

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Tim, these are fragments from an unfinished research project of mine provisionally titled "Song and Verse of the Scottish Stone Trades". Hopefully I'll be in a position to share the full thing in due course.

And, I can't look at that image without thinking of Tom Scott's lines from Brand the Builder, also on characters from St Andrews:

...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...

The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...

Jamie Spence and Bo'sun Tamson. Portrait of two men in work clothes outside house, one seated on barrel, with hammer, trowel, hod, other leaning on ladder.

Tim

It is superb and great the subjects are named.

The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...

My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.

Stuart

This is my fave pic of Scottish lime workers. St Andrews.

This is very good news!

@scottishmusic.bsky.social

Is this, by any chance, linked to the 1946/7 reports of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland that recommended the preparation of a new Scottish song collection under the auspices of the Saltire Society? See my paper in Ethnomusicology Ireland:
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East Lothian pub could be transformed into music school A TRADITIONAL pub in Haddington could be transformed into a music school under new plans.

Whit?
www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2514268...

Inside Yinka Shonibare's first major show in Africa The British-Nigerian artist is showing 15 years of work, from quilts to sculptures, in Madagascar

www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibiti...

Interesting twist in a high profile listed building at risk case:

By tradition, someone normally posts a snap of a bekilted Jack McConnell at this point..

Excellent. First historic Scottish shingle I've seen. I remember Bruce Walker talking on the subject. I'm sure he suggested the Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh, may have had some late survivors.

Excellent news - all 41 volumes of the journal Scottish Studies (1957-2025) are now available online at
open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...
A hugely valuable resource for Scottish ethnology, history, geography, archaeology, onomastics and languages.
There is also an Index to the first 40 volumes

Timber framed? Great (probably local) pantile action with gutters to catch rain and slipping tiles. Roof likely a replacement for earlier thatch.