#scotland
The drawback of reading Iain Banks’s “Raw Spirit” whisky tour book is I now have a very long list of whiskies I want to try! If we ever get back to the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh I will have to spend a long time - and a lot of money! - in their dedicated whisky bar. It is also marvellous reading more re whisky names I recognise from the computers at #StAndrews Computer Science back in the 1990s 🙂 #Scotch #whisky #Scotland #IainBanks #BalmoralHotel #StAndrewsUniversity #ComputerScience #Scotland
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades..." https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52935489571/in/dateposted/
Strolling by the Union Canal, #Edinburgh
#Edimbourg #photography #StreetPhotography #Man #Homme #Woman #Femme #BlackAndWhitePhotography #sunglasses #LunettesDeSoleil #Scotland #Ecosse #sunny
A view towards the west, it gives a good general impression of the scenery.
#photography
#Scotland
This is beautiful 🌿 💚
Scottish makar - or national poet - Kathleen Jamie explores a temperate #rainforest on the Atlantic coastline near the Sound of Mull. Out of this experience, Kathleen has written The Green Room - a sequence of #poems which tell the story of these ancient woodlands from the perspective of the water, lichens, mosses, oaks and hazelwoods that make up this unique and rare ecosystem, also known as Celtic rainforest or Atlantic Woodland.
#Nature #Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001m50n
I live in a country where another country controls our TV schedules, where the news output is massively biased against my country and where most of the political parties which stand in my country are not even registered here.
What other country would put up with this?
Welcome to Scotland.
#Scotland
#ScottishIndepedence
#ScottishDemocracy
But only 15 minutes before, this was the scene at the mouth of the Gareloch, at the tip of the low peninsula in the previous picture.
#Scotland
The Firth of Clyde lying peaceful under the glorious sun of a Scottish summer day.
#Scotland
Cycling Granny Mave completes 1,000-mile Scotland challenge - BBC News
#Cycling #Scotland #Cancer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65745863
Really curious about the promotion/relegation final in #Scotland - My #Partick #Thistle have been absolutely on fire recently, but the two games against #RossCounty start from zero.
And, as stated earlier, if the byelections are held before October the new #voterid requirements will not be in force. This would give #labour something of an advantage. However if they are held later the #libdems might benefit more than the #Conservatives. These considerations may not matter so much as far the seat in #Scotland is concerned because the main contenders there are #labour and the #snp. The other four seats are held by the #Consevatives.
Three parliamentary seats are held by people widely believed to be in line for peerages on the delayed "resignation honours list" from #BorisJohnson. Once taking up their places in the House of Lords the lucky recipients would automatically vacate their seats in the House of Commons thus causing byelections to be held. And last there is a distinct possibility that #BorisJohnson himself could end up in the same position as the lady in #Scotland !
The new #VoterID requirements do not come into force for parliamentary elections until October this year. There are potentially up to five parliamentary byelections that could occur this year. The first in #Scotland in Rutherglen and Hamilton West where the M.P. would face a recall petition petition if she is suspended from parliament for more than very short period. A vote to suspend has been postponed until after the current Whitsun recess.
langes Wochenende gehabt und immer noch keine Urlaubsplanung für Schottland dieses Jahr geschafft.
Wie gut das wir flexibel sind und mit Zelten so wie so immer irgend wo einen Platz finden in Schottland. Aber wenigstens einen groben Plan brauchen wir schon, vor allem wo es mich mal wieder auf die äußeren Hebriden zieht....
Und ich würde wahnsinnig gern mal auf der Isle of Harris Golf spielen. Ich war ja da schon mal, nur ohne eine Runde zu drehen.
Einfach toll dort...
https://www.leadingcourses.com/de/clubs/europa+vereinigtes-k%C3%B6nigreich+schottland+%C3%A4u%C3%9Fere-hebriden/isle-of-harris-golf-club
#Scotland #Schottland #Golf #Hebredies #hebriden
Things to do later, but simply too nice to go straight home, dawdling along the Union Canal on way home from work.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Fountainbridge #UnionCanal #Scotland #Ecosse #barge #boat #bateaux
Beautiful evening by the Union Canal
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Fountainbridge #barge #boat #narrowboat #bateaux #UnionCanal #Scotland #Ecosse
David Beaton, who died OTD in 1546, was Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scottish Cardinal before the Scottish Reformation https://toilet-guru.com/medievalscottish.html?s=mb #travel #Scotland #history
The superb Museum of Lead Mining can be found high in the Lowther Hills in Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland's highest village. It should be on the "must see" list of anyone visiting or passing through southern Scotland. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/wanlockhead/leadmining/index.html
#Scotland #MuseumOfLeadMining #Museum #Wanlockhead #DumfriesAndGalloway #UndiscoveredScotland
Look at that expression. A Rook has started visiting the garden to feed and I love watching it.
#birdphotography #birds #scotland #nature #naturephotography #photography
Mina Stack, #StKilda
My favourite image from the trip, a few more on the website.
#Fomapan 100 (4x5) in #PyrocatHD (1+1+100, 12min @ 20C). O22 and LinPol filters.
Damn. I'm too late for #SilentSunday and too early for #WaterfallWednesday
How about a #MellowMonday ?
Or maybe a #MoistMonday ?
Erm. Maybe not.
Anyway. Have some peace and tranquillity by Inversnaid Waterfall.
How a UK river serves as a natural lab for flood defence research.
A river near Edinburgh in Scotland has served for more than a decade as a natural laboratory for studying flood defences, providing benefits such as improved water quality worth millions.
“Models are great and all, but it’s only with real-world data that you get a full understanding of all the various factors that can affect these results.”
@fitheach
Judging by the sky outside my place I feel your tags are a little generalised 😁
#GreySkies
#ColdWind
#NaeSun
#Highlands
#Scotland
Scorching Scotland And Fantastic New Queens
https://thewalrusandthehoneybee.com/scorching-scotland-and-fantastic-new-queens/
#beekeeping #scotland
We recently enjoyed re-visiting our #CambusOMay - #TorphantrickWood route, and have updated the guidance … 😀
#Walking #Hiking #Ballater #Deeside #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
Last week's #ChurchOfScotland General Assembly couldn't make up its mind on #euthanasia.
#AssistedDying #church #religion #Scotland
https://churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/articles/church-to-re-examine-opposition-to-assisted-dying
Four years ago yesterday I came across this little shrine on the shore at Tarbet Ness. A cup of tea, a wicker basket with an empty beer can, a bunch of chrysanthemums and a handful of small plastic carrots. One of the myriad ways people mark the major events in their lives. I think of it often. #TarbetNess #Scotland #Beach #Shrine
Morning walnut ink sketch of Gleann Bianasdail and the Abhainn an Fhasaigh falling into Loch Maree, Torridon. A view rich in Earth history: "fossil" hills and valleys in the Lewisian (1bya) landscape, inverted rock sequence of the Moine Thrust, Loch Maree Fault, glacial erosion, stream delta... and much more. As seen on a sunny day 2 weeks ago, sitting on the shining white quartz of the Beinn Eighe group.
It is really sunny here, again. Getting used to this summer weather.
It's lovely having a Mediterranean climate. 😃
Gorgeous morning at Holy Corner
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #HolyCorner #eglise #church #EricLiddellCentre #MorningsideUnitedChurch #architecture #Ecosse #Scotland
Eilean Dà Bharr.
Loch Chille Chiarain, Ceann Tìre.
Davaar, Campbeltown.
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Kintyre #Campbeltown #Islands #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Scotland
Oronsay. Off Colonsay.
#scottishislands #hebrides #innerhebrides #scotland #lovescotland #visitscotland #scotlandphotography #andydrane
The amazing prehistoric henge and cairn at Cairnpapple Hill in the Bathgate Hills. It's over 5,000 years old and on a clear day can offer magnificent views across central Scotland taking in Arran in the west and Bass Rock in the east. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/torphichen/cairnpapplehill/index.html
#Scotland #CairnpappleHill #Henge #Prehistoric #Cairn #Bathgate #WestLothian #UndiscoveredScotland
I’m posting local pictures on my socials atm as I’m moving and thought I’d highlight the area surrounding where I live now.
#scotland #scottishhighlands #easterross #fearnpeninsula #cromartyfirth #nigg #niggbeach #cromartyfirth #scotlandphotography #scotlandphotographer #scotlandinsta #photooftheday #nofilter #sun #sea #sand #walking #localview #downthehill
Ok, I am absolutely in love with this Glaswegian AI chatbot.
Most humanlike experience I had so far: https://glasgowgpt.davidhewitson.co.uk/
William Wishart, who died OTD in 1279, was Bishop of Saint Andrews in #Scotland https://toilet-guru.com/medievalscottish.html?s=mb #travel #history
Martin Geissler from BBC Scotland has let slip that the UK Government has 'a leash that can be tugged' to keep Scotland in line.
All pretence that this is a union of equals is slipping.
A leash? Is Scotland just a dog to London rule? Is it any wonder so many want to break our chains?
I post things like this to give people across the UK a view of what happens in Scotland as I guess such things won't be widely reported outside Scotland and our kennel.
#Scotland
Back in the field in preparation for delivering research training to peer researchers. Fucking love my job!
#Academia #Research #Coproduction #Scotland
Alt text: photos taken of Rhu point and from there looking up towards Gare Loch this evening. It's a beautiful still evening as I walked along the shingle beach
Thanks, especially, to @walkhighlands, for their public online repository of maps and guides for walks across Scotland. They make it *so* easy to find your way around and get out and about, whether for a short day walk or a longer adventure.
View of Dervaig, a hamlet on the Isle of Mull, and Loch Tuath. #LandscapePhotography #IsleOfMull #Scotland #Photography
Our latest addition to our prints range: 'Seatown and East Beach from Prospect Terrace', watercolour, 74 x 53 cm (original sold). It's a beautiful view from the headland over the beach. Prints in 4 sizes are available - please see http://www.robwighamwatercolours.com/eastbeachfromprospect.html for details and pricing!
#lossiemouth #lossie #moray #scotland #landscape #mywork #artprints #art #mastoart #painting #paintings #limitededition #seaside #beach
Caught another Brocken spectre the other day, always such a curious and slightly ominous thing to see in the morning.
Standing on a rocky outcrop on the south-eastern shore of Loch Sween in Argyll, Castle Sween is believed to be one of the earliest surviving stone castles in Scotland, probably dating back to the late 1100s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/crinan/castlesween/index.html
#Scotland #CastleSween #Castle #Argyll #UndiscoveredScotland
The glass roof inside the Isle of Mull Cheese factory restaurant, and the outside view. As recently made famous by the interior design program featuring Banjo. Had a great lunch there, and bought plenty of cheese. #IsleOfMull #Cheese #Banjo #Scotland
@stevenlawson And this, lovely people of the Fediverse, is part of the reason why I moved to this beautiful forward-looking country.
A swarm of puffins (that's the right terminology, isn't it? 😉).
Brought to you by complicated arrangement of: camera to laptop, to phone via Bluetooth, to hill and one bar of 4G.
(there's also wifi in the shop, if you are passing/desperate)
Fog approaching the Scott Monument on gloomy day in city of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom. Silhouette of Victorian Gothic monument in honour of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott.
https://artur-bogacki.pixels.com/featured/scott-monument-silhouette-in-edinburgh-artur-bogacki.html
#Edinburgh #Scotland #Scott #ScottMonument #UK #UnitedKingdom #monument #architecture #fog #mastoart #ayearforart #buyintoart #photography #photo
I am among those quoted in this article calling for urgent attention and action regarding serious issues at HMP Addiewell.
It is a credit to Karin Goodwin @theferret that these further troubling claims and issues are being brought to light, following a very negative report on HMP Addiewell by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
'Violence, failure and rotten food: Life in Scotland's last private prison'
#Prison #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Scotland #InvestigativeJournalism
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23551275.hmp-addiewell-life-scotlands-last-private-prison/
#UK ‘demanding’ glass bottles removed from #Scottish #DepositReturnScheme, Yousaf says
The #FirstMinister said he had received a letter late on Friday ‘demanding’ glass be dropped from the Scottish scheme.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-scottish-drs-first-minister-uk-government-b1084125.html
#DRS #Scotland #Democracy #Independence #ToryPoliciesInAction #Environment #Sustainability
#Scotland's #summer of #LGBT+ #Pride #events is about #protest, #visibility and #community
With #hatecrimes against LGBT+ people increasing, Pride is as important as ever.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Scotland #Pride #PrideMonth
Forest walks. Yesterday we walked in the Den of Alyth, a deep gorge filled with mixed forest and Alyth Burn and managed to photograph my first young Dipper being fed / taught to feed itself.
#Birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #wildlife #scotland #perthandkinross #alyth
St Kennera's Church in Kirkinner. A 19th C church, built on 13th C foundations and possibly on the much earlier monastic site of 4th C hermitess St Kennera. A 10th C disc headed cross now stands inside the church.
What a day. The greenness is still fresh as summer hereabouts comes with great whooshes and sudden arrivings. It can be cold at night and in the morning but when the clear, clean air is pierced with sunlight it is the most glorious feeling. Wild flowers don’t show off here. They play a secondary rôle. They hide in the grass and heather; then they wave at us with bursts of colour like tiny flags on a march or a demonstration in favour of joy.
Definitely going to return to this spot, I think in decent light it would make a really good photo
Loch Ossian which is quickly becoming one of my favourite places, partially because its only accessible by train + bike and you cant get there by car.
Two #polls show conflicting results for #SNP and #ScottishIndependence. One indicates significant losses for the SNP in the next #GeneralElection. The second poll, however, shows support for independence at 53%.
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/05/24/a-tale-of-two-opinion-polls/
Check out this photograph / digital artwork that would look great framed and hanging on your wall in your home or office or produced on a variety of products.
A view down a Scottish Glen with low clouds over the mountains at the end of the valley.
https://pixels.com/featured/scottish-glen-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Scotland #landscape #glen #valley #landscapephotography
Obligatory photos of clouds being a bit wild.
As much as I have been enjoying shooting music, hadnt realised how much I was missing heading outdoors and shooting some landscapes.
Not a bad spot for the night.
Been way too long since I did a summit camp. Sgòr Gaibhre and Càrn Dearg.
⛰️ 87 / 282
Around Lady Mary's walk yesterday afternoon
Trowan Lodge ruin (finally worked out what it's called)
Hazy moods
Reflections in the River Earn
Another bluebell
#Crieff #perthshire #scotland #spring #bluebell #photography #fujifilmxh2
@stux
The KLF literally burnt £1 million, on the island of Jura (Scotland), in 1994.
Sadly, Fedi admins didn't exist in 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
I finally got around to trying the IRN BRU I bought. I would describe it as bubble gum flavored cream soda with a diet cola finish (from the aspartame). I'm glad I tried it, but I have to admit it's not going on my favorites list.
Love a bit of Blazin' Fiddles
Full Set — Orkney Folk Festival 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xML98BDfCa4
When we were looking for crabs on Bute I was pretty surprised to find lots of little starfish around. I thought they were mainly in hotter / more tropical places.
@Broadcastscot
The #KickStarter for #ToSeeOurselves. The #documentary, from @newlichtfilms. Mentioned by the presenter, @kuantancurls today.
#2014 #indy #Scotland
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toseeourselves/to-see-ourselves/
#TheMetalDogArticleList
#louder
Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor
https://www.loudersound.com/features/bon-scott-early-years
#BonScott #ACDC #EarlyYears #RockandRoll #Scotland #Australia #MusicalHistory #ScotlandAgain #MusicIndustry #Vocalist
I'm planning trips to #Scotland, specifically #Dumfries and #Galloway.
The aim is to meet people doing cool 'green' stuff with a view to doing similar myself in the future.
Likely dates are 31st May - 2nd Jun, and July 10-14
I'd like to meet people doing small scale informal or alternative #housing, #renewableenergy, #solar, #permaculture or anything else like that!
please boost!
Machrie Moor Stone Circle 2, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Iconic. #StandingStoneSunday #Arran #Scotland
GRit and GRain IV
High contrast images from the west coast
An iPhone photograph for some wider context to the last shot.
This is such a beautiful part of Scotland and walking early in the day means you can have it all to yourself
#Scotland #Hebrides #LochNaCliofa #Crabhadail #VanLife #SoloFemaleTravel #RoadTrip #HighlandsAndIslands #Photography #iPhonePhotography
A camera shot this time, from one of my walks on Harris earlier this month.
Minutes before taking this, I had rounded the top of a hill and startled a golden eagle on the ground. No photos, but I can tell you that watching him take off, not 20 feet from where I stood, was breathtaking
#Photography #Hebrides #HighlandsAndIslands #Scotland #Hiking #GoldenEagle #Crabhadail #LochNaCliofa #Harris #VanLife #SoloFemaleTravel #RoadTrip