Wondering wanderer.
Ayrshire
Joined September 2020
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Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Beside it is the Tigh an Truish, 'house of the trousers'. The story goes that after the 1746 Dress Act banned Highland dress, islanders swapped kilts for trousers here before heading to the mainland, and back again on the way home.
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ALT The Tigh-an-Truish Inn at Clachan on Seil, Scotland: a white two-storey inn with dormer windows beside a car park, under a blue sky. Credit: Euan Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tigh-an-Truish_Inn,_Clachan_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4674176.jpg
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
.@BBCScotland employed Bill Bryden as Head of Television Drama between 1984 and 1993. In 1987 it produced John Byrne's six-part drama series 'Tutti Frutti', which won six BAFTAs and brought many of the cast to national prominence.
#BBCScotlandMemories
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
'Maggie', a BBC Scotland television drama series, was broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1982. It was based on a quartet of novels by Joan Lingard and starred Kirsty Miller as Maggie McKinley. The signature song was by B.A. Robertson.
#BBCScotlandMemories No. 7
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Annoyed that the stockpile tips don't include rolled oats, which make a quick warm nutritious meal if you can cook, and a perfectly OK one if just soaked (in any remaining milk before it sours, or in water with some raisins etc). We shd be supporting domestic oat production imo.
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
October '52 A word on the Burnet or Scots roses, so incredibly pretty, marbled and mottled, self-coloured and two-coloured, and moreover so easy to grow. #gardening
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Please don't leave Halloween pumpkins to rot in your garden, or dump them in the countryside. Eating pumpkins can make hedgehogs, birds and other animals poorly. Instead, dispose of pumpkins in a covered compost bin or council food waste bin.
More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/feat…
ALT Rubbish in a discarded Halloween pumpkin
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
“Daddy, why don’t girls play football?”
@Womeninsport_uk found 45% of girls say sport is seen as “for boys and doesn’t matter for girls”
Want girls to stay in sport?
Media : Girls need to SEE female role models.
Dads : be like @andy_murray - watch it with your daughters. 1/
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Remembering my dear colleague & friend, the poet Douglas Dunn, who died on Friday.
One of the greats. Colourful, gruff & very kind. Though he was v private, his poetry ought to be everywhere in Scotland’s public places.
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
🦔One swipe of a garden strimmer left Dodge with a deep wound across his head.💔Our team is treating his injury with a special wound care patch.
🌿Please, always check for wildlife before strimming or mowing, and share Dodge’s story to help protect other hedgehogs!
ALT Hedgehog with a strimmer injury to his head covered with a wound care patch
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Why not teach your bairns about the Halloween Traditions of Scotland. And don't forget to howk a neep.
Video
scotslanguage.com/articles/v…
Info
scotslanguage.com/articles/n…
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Last day at Sands of Forvie complete! We found a giant shellfish cooking pit- around 2m across and over 1m deep with at least eight separate use phases - around 0.5m thick deposit of shells extended from this pit for around 5m from the edge of the pit! Quite the feasting site!
I've signed the Free Speech Union's petition against the Government's conversion therapy ban. Add your name: stoptheconversiontherapyban.…
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
I’m speaking at the major conference ‘Healing our World: from despair to repair’ here at Findhorn on Monday 19th September, when I’m giving the final keynote presentation - a call to action on behalf of the planet. You can join online, if you can’t attend in person.
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
My newly-published book 'Rewilding Glen Affric', about the ecological restoration of the Caledonian Forest there & featuring 175 colour photographs, is now on sale in our local shop, The Phoenix, here at Findhorn. It can also be ordered on my website at: alanwatsonfeatherstone.com/p…
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
Any Scots speakers/writers out there interested in this fantastic job opportunity to administer Scots Language Week 2027?
projects.handsupfortrad.scot…
Comin fae the Rye retweeted
You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while.
Why?
Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #retweet as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year.
Deal?
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Comin fae the Rye retweeted
What are you doing to stop the killing of Scotlands Woodcock, First Minister ? @JohnSwinney
Woodcock shooting season starts today in most of the UK (Scotland was 1 Sep).
Continental birds have not arrived yet so any shot birds will be red-listed British breeders.
GWCT suggests waiting until 1 December before targeting Woodcock.
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
