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Arachnid Press is an independent Scottish publisher.
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Over 10,000 years ago, Ice Age glaciers melted to create the Highland landscape we know today and a handful of adventurers travelled north 🧭

Trace their story through to the arrival of Picts and early Christians at this exhibition at Inveravon Church in Moray: www.digitscotland.com/events/first...
Illustration of a person in prehistoric clothing using rocks
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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catherinemmunro.bsky.social
Lace woven sea #Shetland
Blue sea with snow on the sand
February 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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shieldaig.bsky.social
One from last week. The 'Balgy Gap' was only closed in the 1960s when the bridge was built. Before then vehicles had a +/-70 mile diversion. There are still stepping stones to the east of the bridge for the brave/daft.
Road, river, mountain and loch.
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. The characters visit Ness Battery near Stromness and see the amazing murals on the walls.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-blork/i...
This modern image shows some of the murals painted in the mess hall during the war. The ceiling is off-white and supported by trusses and the floor is red. The lower walls are dark brown, but the upper walls are entirely covered by rural English scenes. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom left corner.
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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classicalalan.bsky.social
How exciting - I have always wanted to see these altars, the one featuring Sol is particularly amazing!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Another in my series of libraries
Book fountain at Cincinnati Library
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Outdoor fountain made to look like stacked books at Cincinnati Library
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Stranraer harbour has an important part to play in the hunt for an enemy spy.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html
This modern image shows Stranraer harbour. In the right foreground a group of small mainly white leisure and fishing craft are moored to a set of pontoons that extend out into the blue waters of the harbour. In the background is a pier with larger fishing boats moored to it. In the distance on the right is a strip of hilly land. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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The 3rd Floor of the Seattle Central Library
The 3rd Floor of the Seattle Central Library
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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We are open, incidentally, I just had customers first thing and forgot to post the board. - Michael
If art doesn’t make us better, then what on Earth is it for? - Alice Walker
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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I don't want to sound like a crybaby but if I had become an archaeologists, I'd be doing a lot of crying.
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Finding personal Roman items in Carlisle a 'real connection'
Items from the Carlisle Cricket Club dig, including a diploma, are on display for the first time.
www.bbc.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. Melville House in Fife was a top-secret wartime HQ and is visited by three of the characters.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...
The image shows a slightly oblique modern view of Melville House. It is a large seven-bay wide mansion that is four storeys in height. It has a sand-coloured harling and a grey slate roof. There are wings that extend out of the frame of the photograph. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the top left corner.
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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An early start for the Shieldaig creel boat.
Fishing boat on a dark sea, its lights reflected.
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Met Office launches major upgrade to forecasting system
The Met Office has launched its most significant scientific upgrade in more than three years, a major step forward for the UK’s weather and climate science capability.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Whitekirk St Mary's #EastLothian drawing (after Lorimer) finished. With and without its lime-render. Pre-1914 windows, but probably not original.

#Procreate
An architectural drawing of the south elevation of Whitekirk St Mary's Church in East Lothian, Scotland. The drawing shows the church with a tower, pyramidal roof and a short transept in the centre. On the left side of the image is the nave with a decorated entrance porch and corner buttresses. The east limb of the church, or the cancel, on the right-hand side of the image, has two pilaster buttresses. The windows are of Y-tracery and intersecting Y-tracery form, and are probably not original. The church roof is shown with grey slate tiles. This drawing is based on Robert Lorimer's 1914 drawings, which depict the church before its destructive fire. The cause of the 1914 fire was blamed on the actions of Suffragettes. It is not known when the church lost its lime-rendered exterior finish, but this image attempts to visualise what it might have looked like. The three-light mullioned tracery window in the south transept gable wall was destroyed in the 1914 fire. A smaller trefoil roundel window replaced it. Drawing by Bob Marshall, 2026. © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 An architectural drawing of the south elevation of Whitekirk St Mary's Church in East Lothian, Scotland. The drawing shows the church with a tower, pyramidal roof and a short transept in the centre. On the left side of the image is the nave with a decorated entrance porch and corner buttresses. The east limb of the church, or the cancel, on the right-hand side of the image, has two pilaster buttresses. The windows are of Y-tracery and intersecting Y-tracery form, and are probably not original. The masonry walls are made of locally quarried red sandstone. The church roof is shown with grey slate tiles. This drawing is based on Robert Lorimer's 1914 drawings, which depict the church before its destructive fire. The cause of the 1914 fire was blamed on the actions of Suffragettes. The three-light mullioned tracery window in the south transept gable wall was destroyed in the 1914 fire. A smaller trefoil roundel window replaced it. Drawing by Bob Marshall, 2026. © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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kenlussey.bsky.social
One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. The fictional Sarclet Castle south of Wick has a central part to play in the story.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html
This is a photograph of the Castle of Mey, on which the fictional Sarclet Castle is partly based. The image shows a view over grass to a stone wall with a gateway in its right-hand end. Beyond it is a complex stone castle rising to different levels and with lots of chimneys, castellations and bartizans. Sunlight is coming from the right, casting much of the castle in shadow. The sky is partly cloudy. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the top left corner.
February 9, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Silver Birch, Braemar #scotland #photography
February 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Storm clouds and sunbeams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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February 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. RAF Wigtown has a central role in the book as the search for a spy builds towards its dramatic conclusion.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...
This modern image shows a view across a cultivated field with green plants appearing above ground. In the lower right of the frame is a windowless two-storey square flat-roofed concrete building with ivy growing up part of it and the floor of a balcony on its left. The sun is coming from the right, leaving the face nearest us in shadow. In the distance the land rises to high rounded hills. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top left corner.
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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Dysart, Fife #scotland #photography
February 5, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Mom's library
February 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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classicalalan.bsky.social
I am excited to announce that I will be giving an illustrated talk about my book The Road to Mons Graupius at the wonderful Innerpeffray Library @innerpeffray.bsky.social on Sunday 15 March. Join me if you can, tickets are available here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/shop/ti...
#RomanSiteSaturday
The cover of the book The Road to Mons Graupius
February 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle - including the Chapel Royal - and more widely across Scotland during World War Two.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/has/index.html
This modern image shows the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle. It is a single storey high and has three sets of windows on either side of the central doorway. The building is built across a steeply sloping courtyard which is evident in the foreground. The sky is mainly blue. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the top left corner.
February 7, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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One of the lamp posts outside Glasgow Cathedral. These feature four symbols, a bird, a bell, a tree and a fish with a ring in its mouth.

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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowcathedral #stmungo #streetlight
February 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM