Rachel Fox

Larch trees by the river Tay

Autumn evening sky by the Tay in Dunkeld

Gate at Dunkeld cathedral

Beautiful couple of days in Dunkeld 🍁

#scotland #autumn #perthshire

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Broughty castle, looking through an arrowslit towards a red house along the waterfront

Tower and blue skies at Broughty castle

Looking from Broughty castle along the river Tay towards Dundee

Looking from Broughty castle along the beach towards Monifieth

Views from Broughty Castle Museum yesterday, looking along the Tay towards Dundee and along the beach towards Angus and just up at the beautiful blue sky 🌞

#bluesky #blueskies #dundee #angus #scotland #scottishskies #broughtyferry

Placards saying refugees are welcome in Scotland.

Very few folk turned out to protest about immigration in Dundee today but there were lots of us there to counter them just in case. We were a strong friendly crowd, singing and chanting all afternoon, reclaiming the saltire and welcoming refugees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎶
#dundee #scotlandwelcomesrefugees #saltire

Photo of Dundee. Text reads: stand with new dundonians. Refugees are welcome here. Gather at Alloway Place, DD4 8UA, 1pm, Saturday 20th September. Various organisation and trade Union logos who support the demo are included at the bottom of the image: fire brigades Union, unison Dundee city branch, stand up to racism tayside, Dundee pensioners forum, unity community, unite retired members, Dundee TUC, Dundee for Palestine, women against the far right

*Stand with New Dundonians - Refugees are Welcome Here!*

The far-right are targeting refugees in Dundee again this Saturday 20th September - again, we say no in oor city!

Watch online: Mike Berners-Lee: Climate Action and the Power of Truth From Sat 16 Aug - Global emissions are worse than ever. The ‘polycrisis’ we face reaches far beyond the climate. Why have we continued to fail when we have the means to succeed?…

Available to watch online - well worth your time:

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

#EdinburghBookFestival #AClimateOfTruth

Nice work 🎶

Our Trump front page completely sold out – so you can buy it as a poster OUR team has been totally overwhelmed by the volume of people seeking physical copies of Friday's viral Trump "convicted felon" front…

So many people are getting in touch asking if they can get back copies of Friday's paper

The answer is no ... we are completely sold out. Everywhere.

You can order a poster version here though!

www.thenational.scot/news/2534754...

Dresses featuring Tatreez

Absence does not mean forgetting by Leena Nammari 2022

Dress damaged in bombing of the Rafah Museum in Gaza 2023

Bedouin dress

Brilliant work @vadundee.bsky.social just now - 'Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine'. Free entry to this exhibition with detail, history, art, politics and beauty - all in a couple of small rooms.

#dundee #tatreez #palestine #embroidery

End of a rainbow coming out of a cloud over beach in Dumfries and Galloway

Rainbow and clouds over beach in Dumfries and Galloway

Rainbow over trees in Northumberland

Rainbow and trees through hotel window in Northumberland

Been away, caught a few rainbows on the way 🌈

#rainbows #northumberland #dumfriesandgalloway

Yes, Raye and band were brilliant ❤️

Agreed, just listening to it on night shift. Perfect ❤️

Watched English Teacher and Loyle Carner on computer this morning ❤️

Bird mosaics on Dighty Burn bridge

Heron mural near old Michelin factory

Seven Arches Viaduct

View of Broughty Ferry from Grassy Beach

Did a section of the Dundee Green Circular on Saturday (about 12 miles anticlockwise, on foot not bike) as part of my #KiltwalkDundee prep. Lots to see along the Dighty Burn and beyond 📷

#dundee #walking

Mural in Dundee of a black and white dog by Paco Graff

The beach at Broughty Ferry with blue sky and lifeguard hut

I've been out walking a bit recently to get ready for #DundeeKiltwalk in August. Here are a couple of last week's local sights 📷

Dog artwork by Paco Graff

#StreetArt #dogs #Dundee #walking

Covers of six books: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld, Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (audio), Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty, Fury by Kathryn Heyman (audio), Middle England by Jonathan Coe, The Green Road by Anne Enright (audio).

Recent reading/listening. Somethings old, something new(ish), something borrowed etc.

I've switched to @libro.fm for audio, still using Libby app for free ones too.

#books #booksky #audiobooks

YouTube video by Hudson Records Spell Songs - Heartwood (Live at The Natural History Museum)

And of course 'Heartwood' by @spellsongs.bsky.social (which is also Karine but lots of other lovelies too). Saw them all in Edinburgh recently - so good!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdG...

YouTube video by Karine Polwart - Topic Wind Blown

And here is another tree piece by Karine Polwart for you @cerysmatthews.bsky.social - 'Windblown' about a Sabal palm at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden (more info easy to find at her website).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WPc...

YouTube video by Mary Chapin Carpenter - Topic Rebecca

Another tree song for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
'Rebecca' by Karine Polwart on the recent Chapin Carpenter/Fowlis/Polwart album 'Looking for the Thread'. The song is about a name carved into a beech tree in West Lothian. Karine has other tree songs...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJ-...

YouTube video by Michael Marra - Topic Niel Gow's Apprentice

Tree songs for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
How about 'Niel Gow's Apprentice' by the marvellous Michael Marra? Mentions 'the fiddle tree' in Dunkeld (Burns used Gow's tunes..). Others have released versions of Marra's song (incl. Fairport Convention).
#MichaelMarra

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QM...

Stage at Usher Hall just before Spell Songs show. Banners with Jackie Morris artwork from Lost Words books.

Edinburgh Castle on a sunny day.

With so much negativity in the world it was many happy breaths of positivity to finally witness the Spell Songs project live on stage at the weekend. Beautiful music, lovely people, all the good tears. And "let the raven call you home" to fade... 🎶 🦊

#SpellSongs #Edinburgh #LiveMusic #LostWords

View from the house, looking over Kyle of Sutherland.

A red canoe on the shale beach at edge of Kyle of Sutherland.

Swimmer in Loch Shin.

Sunset driving south from Lairg to Kyle of Sutherland.

Just back from a lovely trip up north. Beautiful views of Kyle of Sutherland (from house and riverbank/river), a dip in Loch Shin and more sun than we knew what to do with...

#Scotland #ScottishHighlands #Sunshine #Sutherland

Loved the music in this film 🎶

Tweet tweet Art at the top of the Law, Dundee  by  Paco Graff  (photo 1st May 2020) I got a Twitter account quite late in the day (my fi...

Was reminded today of all the 4-line poems (mostly political in content) that I wrote for the other place. I put them all together in a post a while back:

slowlaneshuffle.blogspot.com/2020/06/twee...

Stripes

Nigel Farage, halt your hole,

Pinstripes can confuse the soul,

You have championed quite a rift,

Bitter Britain is your gift.

(an old thing from 2017, and still he rises...)

White clouds, blue sky, fields of yellow oil seed rape and narrow road in Perthshire

A straight line of narrow trees, a green field, white clouds and blue sky in Perthshire

Fields around Errol, Perthshire, yesterday 🌞

#scotland #perthshire #april

Happy Birthday 🎂

Gorse, lighthouse,sea and blue sky

Bench, river, Aberdeen city and blue sky

Coffee cup, gorse, lighthouse, sea and blue sky

Beautiful sunshine at Greyhope Bay, Torry, Aberdeen on Thursday 🌞

#scotland #aberdeen #GreyhopeBay #torry

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Could you tell folks that my album is coming out on 4th April? It would be most helpful. Thank you. findlaynapier.ffm.to/outsider

#InsideNo9 #StageFright