Gregor Steele

Half birthday for this beastie - I bought it six months ago. We've enjoyed a fair number of miles together in that time.

Hoo dis Mrs Nae Offence ken whit a monkey's oxter smells like? Read mair braw ScotshooseYaldi comics here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/primary/comi... #Scotstober

Couthally Castle Hassle In August 2020, I decided to visit Couthally Castle near Carnwath. To be honest, alliteration was about the best thing it had going for it. Not that the place doesn’t have an interesting history. I…

One from the archive - a visit to the site of Couthally Castle near Carnwath goes a bit wrong: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2022/03/20/c...

The Drookit Doo’s a daft yin,
And no that guid at singin.
It stauns up on the auld belltooer
In rain, its feathers wringin.

Read aboot mair Fykie Fleein Things here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/primary/poem... and listen tae actor Michael McHardie read the poem oot. #Scotstober

Kirk o Shotts and Kate’s Well The Kirk o Shotts If you’ve ever travelled along the Lanarkshire stretch of the M8 motorway, you have probably noticed the Kirk o Shotts. I’ve enjoyed riding to the Kirk and I’ve …

Exploring the area around Kirk o Shotts and Kate's Well: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/k...

Check oot the baddie's t-shirt...

There's a richt scunner oot tae dwang the peacefu craiturs o the planet Tunnix. But Major Tam the Space Polisman is on the case. #Scotstober Fu Eejit Street comic here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/wp-content/u...

Peebles and an interesting tunnel One day in October 2018, I decided to cycle to the border town of Peebles. I passed through the villages of Carnwath and Elsrickle, and admired the whalebone arch at Netherurd, where they used to h…

A bike ride to Peebles, passing through the railway tunnel where CTR Wilson performed a cosmic ray experiment: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/p...

Wha remembers the ticker tape machine frae schuil physics? Yaisin ane wis a richt footer and maist o the time yir teacher tellt ye whit ye should o fund oot. #Scotstober

Afore he met ma mither, ma faither crashed this braw motor jist ootside Carluke. He wis in sic a bad way that they gied him the last richts at the hospital, jist in case he wis Catholic. #Scotstober

"Weel Ah mind the day oor Gregor wis capped. Jist as the man pit the thing on his heid, a shaft o light lit him up." So my granny used to say, and it was an entirely accurate description, but for one detail. She wasn't there and had constructed the memory from my mum's account, and from this photo.

Eejit Street 4 - the latest edition of the Scots language comic for bairns - is out now. I've scripted some stories for it, along with Thomas and Sara Clark and Matthew Fitt. You can download it here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/.../Eejit-St... and schools will be able to order free hard copies.

Revisiting the Coalburn paths. Not surprisingly, they're even better when it's not chucking it down as it was here: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c... And look! A picnic bench where you can sit and talk about the interesting geology you see about you.

The Tinto Hill Tea Room has been around for as long as I can remember, but in the last few years has had quite restricted opening hours. It's now under new management and is open every day except Wednesday. The menu looked quite imaginative, but I only stopped for coffee and a scone.

I don't do a lot of sneering, but if I was to take it up big time, I'd sneer most at people who sneer at mothers.

Beautiful morning. It was frosty when I woke up but by the time I was out riding there were only a few patches in the shade. Cold enough, though, to merit long cycling tights for the first time in a few months.

Morningside – Lanarkshire’s forgotten battle? A few years ago, I posted a picture of the ruined Auchterhead Farm on Twitter (as was). I got a few likes and the comment, ‘There was a battle up there.’  Haud on, whit? If there had been a ba…

A non-historian tries to find out about a forgotten Lanarkshire battle: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/m...

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🙋 Closing date for our 'My Favourite Bike Ride' #SpokesComp has been extended to

... Sunday 21 September

with judging in early October

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Can we please have a Bluesky repeat of your Stevie Smith/Stevie Naesmith joke? Best Twitter (as was) joke I ever read.

Tried out the next section of the NCN74 to Douglas path- Coalburn to Poneil. A highlight was Wallace's Cave, as much for the striking geology as the alleged connection with the Scottish hero. See here: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c... Loved it, despite the dreich weather.

I made a clickbait anagram app in the shed... this happened!

No mean citybike Glasgow has a fleet of hop-on hop-off hire bikes, both electric and acoustic. The unassisted ones are well-equipped, heavyish, comfortable beasties with 7 speed hub gears. On a damp day when I also…

It's one of the hop on/hop off fleet. More here: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n... (and Dales does still exist).

A 'time to kill in Glasgow' ride on a hire bike, along the canal to Kirkintilloch.

Another Glasgow hire bike adventure – St. Peter’s Seminary In October 2024, my wife underwent a knee replacement operation in a hospital off Glasgow’s Great Western Road. To take my mind off what she was going through, I picked up a bike from the grounds o…

More Glasgow hire bike fun- St. Peter's Seminary: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/a...

No mean citybike Glasgow has a fleet of hop-on hop-off hire bikes, both electric and acoustic. The unassisted ones are well-equipped, heavyish, comfortable beasties with 7 speed hub gears. On a damp day when I also…

Some Glasgow hire bike stories: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n...

Guardians of the Galaxy Light Instant Hot Chocolate - an ensemble group, including a racoon and a tree defend low calorie hot drinks from Ronan the Accuser.

Local to me - must have a look. Thanks to those who made it possible.

Crawfordjohn and a playful ferret On rides to Muirkirk and Glenbuck I’d noticed a sign on the A70 between Douglas and Glespin pointing to Crawfordjohn. It was seven miles away, though somebody had tried to make it look as if it was…

A ride to Crawfordjohn leads to me finding out about TV's most notorious ferret: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/c...

Ayr and A-Frames On a ride to Muirkirk, I noticed a sign pointing west that said, ‘Barony A-Frame’. When I got home, I looked this up. It is a memorial park to Ayrshire mining, close to the village of Auchinleck. I…

A ride to the Barony A-Frame and Ayr: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

Rod Hull and Emo. Fun with Rod and his sensitive, introspective puppet. Includes the famous clip where Emo forces Michael Parkinson to listen to Jimmy Eat World.