Charlie Lynch

Quite.

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes to stand down from Holyrood next year Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes will not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2026 ...

And there was much rejoicing! www.thenational.scot/news/2536241...

More middle aged outings. Leadhills, former mining village, home of historic relics and commuters to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

There’s a great walk round the coastal path from Brodick to Lamlash and onwards to Whiting Bay, can be timed to get the bus back or taxi if no bus…

I do wonder what they would try and do to Scotland and what political response that might provoke.

Arran recommended!

Domestic conversation:

What’s that weird noise?
Oh it’s the Freak Zone on Radio 6, it’s a particularly weird episode.
No I mean outside. Is that singing?
Yeah it’s the pub they are doing karaoke again. Last night they were howling ‘Brown Eyed Girl.’
Urgh.

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘In making Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation, the government has added it to a list that includes al-Qaida, the UDA and the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, all of which advocate terror and murder to achieve political ends.’

Huw Lemmey: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Has art degree, did well, now works in shop and does a bit of stage hand work. Rapid turnover of flatmates and boyfriends/girlfriends. Ketamine issue. Middle class parents are concerned.

Was in punk band in 1990s, now suffering parent of teenage children, mends racing bikes for living, spends time down the allotment.

Keep seeing these guys…

Gone out for drink. 1) Why is everyone so young? 2) Whats with all the moustaches?

Glaswegians - Cranhill Arts - Street Level Photoworks Street Level provides inspiring encounters in art photography locally and internationally; a creative setting to exhibit, produce, participate, and buy photography.

I’m inspired - here’s the blurb: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/glaswe...

It’s great on so many levels and should be seen by *everyone* but also some of the best graphic art I have ever seen!

The amazing ‘Glaswegians: Cranhill Arts’ exhibition on display at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. “It remains one of the most important community-led, from the ground-up arts projects the islands of Britain have ever seen.”

Also I don’t write the webpage subheadings.

I did notice that GPs upped their game after I got a doctorate (in history) …

Congrats!

Holding signs, spraying paint in England = illegal.
Terrorising neighbourhoods, running armed criminal gang, building vast bonfires in North of Ireland = apparently not illegal.

Quite sold on huts now.

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I also took some extra hut pictures which didn’t make the final cut due to space, and which I shall share here, dear readers.

The fascinating history of 178 small wooden huts just outside Scottish city WHERE do you start with the Carbeth Huts? Some 178 small wooden buildings clustered around 150 acres of sylvan terrain just north of Glasgow, they…

The Carbeth Hutting Community outside Glasgow was established in the 1920s as a scheme to allow working people from the city access to outdoor recreation and a foothold in the countryside. I went there to find out more: www.thenational.scot/culture/2535...

Three Castles Burning: ‘A Perfect Prodigy of Moral Horrors’ - The Donnybrook Fair The Donnybrook Fair is recalled in ballad and memoir as a notorious and chaotic annual event, but what really went on there? Over centuries, the annual fair drew revellers from near and far to Donnybr...

“The Donnybrook Fair (in Dublin) is recalled in ballad and memoir as notorious and chaotic, but what really went on there?” threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/a-perfect-pr...

Because they are A New Thing. Surviving Victorian gasometers, mostly pulled down during the period when they were considered horrible eyesores, are now endangered gems of heritage demonstrating the Golden Age of Victorian engineering prowess. In time windfarms too will enjoy the nostalgia factor.

Wasn’t the whole idea of escaping from the American alliance an important incentive to independence?

New terrible horrors from right-wing magazine with few readers.

What better illustration of the UK’s place in the world than Keir ‘Mr Popular’ Starmer trotting around after that grotesque revolting tyrant and offender.

From what I’ve read I get the feeling that homelife with Leonard in the 1970s may not have been a bed of roses.

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