David Hughes
@davhug.bsky.social
Books of 2025. Music, movies, nature, secondhand bookshop lover. Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Been slowly building a reading den down the garden and it's nearly finished. E Nesbit, Five Children And It.
Marghanita Laski, The Victorian Chaise-Longue. Brilliantly controlled immersion in dreadful loss-of-agency, dislocation, and very #Lynchian psychogenic fugue. As ever, always revisit the relevant @backlisted.bsky.social episode for further enrichment and enjoyment, one of the best.
January 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Marghanita Laski, The Victorian Chaise-Longue. Brilliantly controlled immersion in dreadful loss-of-agency, dislocation, and very #Lynchian psychogenic fugue. As ever, always revisit the relevant @backlisted.bsky.social episode for further enrichment and enjoyment, one of the best.
Great Shirley Hughes cover of Nina Bawden's Squib. Mibby bit dated, but a swift engaging tale that weaves fairytale woods, rivers, changelings & darkness thru themes of anxiety, safety, fear & loss, all effectively framed within the viewpoints of the children. Moved to tears in final pages.
January 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Great Shirley Hughes cover of Nina Bawden's Squib. Mibby bit dated, but a swift engaging tale that weaves fairytale woods, rivers, changelings & darkness thru themes of anxiety, safety, fear & loss, all effectively framed within the viewpoints of the children. Moved to tears in final pages.
Saturday afternoon listening, loving the baritone sax. Under-the-radar Leo Parker's only two records are adorable rollicks across swing, blues, bop, soul & gospel. Pure delight. #jazz #bluenote #RollinWithLeo #RudyVanGelder Mad Lad Returns!
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Saturday afternoon listening, loving the baritone sax. Under-the-radar Leo Parker's only two records are adorable rollicks across swing, blues, bop, soul & gospel. Pure delight. #jazz #bluenote #RollinWithLeo #RudyVanGelder Mad Lad Returns!
Been slowly building a reading den down the garden and it's nearly finished. E Nesbit, Five Children And It.
January 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Been slowly building a reading den down the garden and it's nearly finished. E Nesbit, Five Children And It.
Cask Masters #Benrinnes #maltwhisky #gift. More often used for Johnny Walker blends, this is a great mouthful: chewy, cerealy white fruits, with a wee lip-smacking creaminess 🏴
January 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Cask Masters #Benrinnes #maltwhisky #gift. More often used for Johnny Walker blends, this is a great mouthful: chewy, cerealy white fruits, with a wee lip-smacking creaminess 🏴
#DaphneduMaurier My Cousin Rachel. Whose story is this? Gripping, descriptive, mesmeric prose, building rapport with a narrator who might be slipping into contradiction & delusion in his construction of Rachel and her story. About 'truth', tropes & stories. So readable and enjoyable, a classic.
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
#DaphneduMaurier My Cousin Rachel. Whose story is this? Gripping, descriptive, mesmeric prose, building rapport with a narrator who might be slipping into contradiction & delusion in his construction of Rachel and her story. About 'truth', tropes & stories. So readable and enjoyable, a classic.
Top 10 books of 2025 (from 100, in order)
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Top 10 books of 2025 (from 100, in order)
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
December eating mode.
Credit Errington Barn, George Mewes Glasgow, Celino's Alexandra Parade, Dunlop Dairy, The Cheese Lady Haddington & Ian Mellis Glasgow for 2025 cheese joy 🧀
Credit Errington Barn, George Mewes Glasgow, Celino's Alexandra Parade, Dunlop Dairy, The Cheese Lady Haddington & Ian Mellis Glasgow for 2025 cheese joy 🧀
December 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
December eating mode.
Credit Errington Barn, George Mewes Glasgow, Celino's Alexandra Parade, Dunlop Dairy, The Cheese Lady Haddington & Ian Mellis Glasgow for 2025 cheese joy 🧀
Credit Errington Barn, George Mewes Glasgow, Celino's Alexandra Parade, Dunlop Dairy, The Cheese Lady Haddington & Ian Mellis Glasgow for 2025 cheese joy 🧀
From the roof of the Crawfords' Boghall Castle: #GameOfThrones #DorothyDunnett "To the east lay the roofs of the barony town of Biggar, smoking in the socket of Bizzyberry Hill...the horizon was jumbled with hills." A brilliant walk up Bizzyberry this morn, pondering the ghosts of Midculter. #Lymond
December 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
From the roof of the Crawfords' Boghall Castle: #GameOfThrones #DorothyDunnett "To the east lay the roofs of the barony town of Biggar, smoking in the socket of Bizzyberry Hill...the horizon was jumbled with hills." A brilliant walk up Bizzyberry this morn, pondering the ghosts of Midculter. #Lymond
Paulette Goddard expressing #MyBreakfastsThisWeek...!
Chaplin's #ModernTimes gets better every time I see it; it's brisk, mad, tough & graceful.
#movies
Chaplin's #ModernTimes gets better every time I see it; it's brisk, mad, tough & graceful.
#movies
December 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Paulette Goddard expressing #MyBreakfastsThisWeek...!
Chaplin's #ModernTimes gets better every time I see it; it's brisk, mad, tough & graceful.
#movies
Chaplin's #ModernTimes gets better every time I see it; it's brisk, mad, tough & graceful.
#movies
I love these, two of the very best winter soundtracks. Excitement, nerve, verve, sweetness & sadness: #JohnBarry #OnHerMajestysSecretService Mystery, magic, enchantment, wonder & joy: #EnnioMorricone #IMagiRandagi #soundtracks
December 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I love these, two of the very best winter soundtracks. Excitement, nerve, verve, sweetness & sadness: #JohnBarry #OnHerMajestysSecretService Mystery, magic, enchantment, wonder & joy: #EnnioMorricone #IMagiRandagi #soundtracks
Any Hexham visit means going to the Abbey to imagine: Tom Erskine hid in the transept gallery, while battered prisoner Francis Crawford is brought in by the English to confess and be shot.. #GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #heartstoppingbookscenes #16thcentury #Northumberland #ghostsofFlawsValley
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Any Hexham visit means going to the Abbey to imagine: Tom Erskine hid in the transept gallery, while battered prisoner Francis Crawford is brought in by the English to confess and be shot.. #GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #heartstoppingbookscenes #16thcentury #Northumberland #ghostsofFlawsValley
Really taken with the cover of this #AgathaChristie #CatAmongThePigeons I picked up in Hexham. First uk paperback print (1962) of her 1959 book; and one of her best from the handful I've read.
December 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Really taken with the cover of this #AgathaChristie #CatAmongThePigeons I picked up in Hexham. First uk paperback print (1962) of her 1959 book; and one of her best from the handful I've read.
Watching my lesser-seen #MeikoKaji dvds: the Blind Woman's Curse credit sequence is a thing of joy and beauty... #cinema
youtu.be/iBYjo4MCD0g?...
youtu.be/iBYjo4MCD0g?...
[HD] Blind Woman's Curse 怪談昇り竜 (1970) | Intro Fight / Credits
YouTube video by matacoz
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December 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Watching my lesser-seen #MeikoKaji dvds: the Blind Woman's Curse credit sequence is a thing of joy and beauty... #cinema
youtu.be/iBYjo4MCD0g?...
youtu.be/iBYjo4MCD0g?...
December afternoon at the movies. #Latalante #JeanVigo #DitaParlo #facesofcinema Years since seen on dvd, has grown in the memory like a personal dream, fabulous on the big silver screen.
December 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
December afternoon at the movies. #Latalante #JeanVigo #DitaParlo #facesofcinema Years since seen on dvd, has grown in the memory like a personal dream, fabulous on the big silver screen.
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From Tove Jansson's book 'Moominland Midwinter'1957... Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #womensart ❄️ #Midwinter
December 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
From Tove Jansson's book 'Moominland Midwinter'1957... Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #womensart ❄️ #Midwinter
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Noohoozfurra a wee drink to toast the life of Stanley Baxter?
December 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Noohoozfurra a wee drink to toast the life of Stanley Baxter?
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Stanley Baxter and Ronnie Corbett as the Ugly Sisters in panto, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 1967.
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Stanley Baxter and Ronnie Corbett as the Ugly Sisters in panto, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 1967.
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James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context
#gothic #romanticism 💙📚
4/10
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#gothic #romanticism 💙📚
4/10
unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with James Kelman
Author James Kelman joins us to discuss James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, originally published in 1824. It tells the story of a staunch Calvininst who is lured in...
unburied-books.castos.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context
#gothic #romanticism 💙📚
4/10
unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the...
#gothic #romanticism 💙📚
4/10
unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the...
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The City of Edinburgh is absolutely hoaching with wildlife. I saw more critters there than I ever did growing up in Canada, or where I live on Scotland's far north coast.
Not even squirrels or magpies around here :-(
The Water of Leith is superb & has a cyclepath alongside youtu.be/Zxii5GSS-UQ?...
Not even squirrels or magpies around here :-(
The Water of Leith is superb & has a cyclepath alongside youtu.be/Zxii5GSS-UQ?...
Wildlife on the Water of Leith - 24 Hours on the Water of Leith - 2025
YouTube video by Go Wild In Edinburgh - Wildlife Video Photographer
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December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The City of Edinburgh is absolutely hoaching with wildlife. I saw more critters there than I ever did growing up in Canada, or where I live on Scotland's far north coast.
Not even squirrels or magpies around here :-(
The Water of Leith is superb & has a cyclepath alongside youtu.be/Zxii5GSS-UQ?...
Not even squirrels or magpies around here :-(
The Water of Leith is superb & has a cyclepath alongside youtu.be/Zxii5GSS-UQ?...
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'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
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Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A #StAndrewsDay poem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/...
(To John Gawsworth)
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A #StAndrewsDay poem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/...
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A #StAndrewsDay poem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/...
(To John Gawsworth)
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A #StAndrewsDay poem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/...
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Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart
Toad: once read, has never left me; what a wee beauty of a poem, itself a tiny wondrous radiance.
Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) was born #OTD, 14 November. A self-described “Zen Calvinist”, when asked how long it took him to write a poem he would reply “one cigarette – or two for a long one”
A 🎂🧵
“Toad”
THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poem #poetry
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A 🎂🧵
“Toad”
THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poem #poetry
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birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Toad: once read, has never left me; what a wee beauty of a poem, itself a tiny wondrous radiance.