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Ken Lussey
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Author, photographer, traveller, husband, father, grandfather and lover of Scotland and all things Scottish.
Website: https://www.kenlussey.com/
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
A squirrel urging me not to obey a Do Not Feed The Squirrels sign on Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow, although given the warning below it, I resisted! The sign isn't an official one, but was created by A Sign of Humour.

#glasgow #kelvingrovepark #sign #glasgowhumour #squirrel #squirrels
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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simonvarwell.bsky.social
Great thread.
tomflood.bsky.social Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 9d
Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
person standing norman rockwell meme
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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helengrantsays.bsky.social
OH posted this from Thursday morning's "Rise and Grind" bike ride. He showed me this photo, and remarked what a beautiful sunrise it was.
Reader, I had not noticed the sunrise nor all the people on bikes. I had just zoomed in on that gorgeous standing stone...
Sunrise, snowy hill top with mountain bikers and standing stone
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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arachnidpress.bsky.social
A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. The Dockmaster's House on Beckholmen in Stockholm hosts a key meeting in the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/ind...
The image shows a small beige house built in classical style. The main block is three bays wide by two storeys high and it has a pediment with an oculus above. There are single window extensions on both sides and a door in the centre. The house is approached via climbing drive beyond a gate and hedge. There are trees on the left. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the top right corner.
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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handhyorkshire.bsky.social
Adjacent to the iconic Herbert House (lower image) on Pavement in York is the interesting Lady Peckett’s Yard, a York snickelway. Named after Alice, the wife of Lord Mayor John Peckett in 1702. This historical pathway has a significant past. It possibly originates from two
Lady Peckett’s Yard, a York snickelway. Named after Alice, the wife of Lord Mayor John Peckett in 1702.
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Given the current temperature in Glasgow, I figured it's worth posting this plaque I came across on Westbank Quadrant about the origins of Lord Kelvin's ground-breaking research into absolute zero while he was at Glasgow University.

Cont./

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #lordkelvin
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
Produced for only 5 years, between 1919 and 1924, the 'Glasgow' was Scotland's only indigenous tractor. The three-wheel drive system was an attempt to overcome the problem of working steep hillsides.

Still trying to work out why Inspector Clouseau is at the wheel?

Pic: Country Life magazine
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
kenlussey.bsky.social
‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. A relic of the D-Day harbour trials featured in the book can still be seen at Garlieston Bay in Galloway.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html
This modern image shows Garlieston Bay in Galloway. In the foreground is a stony shoreline which has a large concrete structure lying on it. This has four holes through it and the concrete is heavily discoloured through exposure to the sea. Beyond the shoreline is water sparkling in the sunlight and then, in the distance, part of a pier and land with modern apartments built on it. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom left corner.
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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edinburghreviews.bsky.social
A review of St Leonard's Bar on St Leonard's Street, a dog-friendly and LGBTQ+ friendly pub with a great value menu of burgers, mac and cheese and cocktails.
Review: St Leonard's Bar, an inclusive bar in the Southside - Edinburgh Reviews
St Leonard's Bar is an affordable and welcoming pub in Edinburgh's Southside, offering great food, local beers, and a friendly atmosphere away from the Festival crowds.
edinburgh-reviews.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Our next online seminar, on Friday, November 28, features Dr Colleen Batey and focuses on #viking="/hashtag/viking" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#viking grave goods – in particular damaged weaponry.
#archaeology #viking #ThinkUHI
Next week’s online seminar looks at death, destruction and Viking burials
Our next online seminar, on November 28, features Dr Colleen Batey and focuses on viking grave goods – in particular damaged weaponry.
archaeologyorkney.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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arachnidpress.bsky.social
When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a contemporary thriller set mainly in central and north-west Scotland. Portpatrick in Galloway is also visited, with fatal consequences.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-thr/ind...
The image shows a view down onto an enclosed harbour with an inner segment in the bottom left of the frame and an outer segment in the centre right of the frame. A village of mainly white houses and cottages stretches round the far side of the harbour, finishing as the coast climbs to low cliffs in the upper right of the frame, looking right out to sea. There are more buildings in the bottom right and boats are moored in the inner harbour. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Textile artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroidery of Sami culture, Indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic #womensart
Complex pictorial embroidery with reindeer herd, herders and their dogs in a circular snowy landscape
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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bigbeardybooks.bsky.social
I run a directory of independent bookshops and sometimes make pages for shops, want to eventually get a page for each one

This page if for Toppings Edinburgh at the top of Leith Walk, just across from my gran's old house

#BookSky #Bookshop 📚💙 #IndieBookshop

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/topping-and-...
Old Edinburgh building solid stone, built on a corner so curved, this was an old bank and has lots of windows on three floors, the company's name is above the ground floor windows and door on a blue wooden panel
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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handhyorkshire.bsky.social
This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
was arrested and served a week in prison. Dora, obviously a very strong young woman emigrated to Australia before the start of the First World War, therefore never seeing the passage of women's suffrage in England, where she married and lived until her death in 1976.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
kenlussey.bsky.social
‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta. The Xara Palace in Mdina has a role as the story develops.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/eoh/index.html
This modern image shows the interior of the Xara Palace Hotel in Mdina, Malta. A broad corridor with sumptuous red rugs extends out to the middle of the frame. It has light stone walls that extend upwards over two floors to a sloping glass roof. There are tables and rattan chairs at intervals along the sides of the corridor and large displays of green plants. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Concrete bollards decorated with mosaics bringing a bit of colour to Ashley Street in the Woodlands area of Glasgow on an otherwise damp and driech day

#glasgow #streetart #ceramics #tiles #mosaics #bollard #woodlands #glasgowtoday
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
Think I prefer this to the cone...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Glasgow artist swaps Duke of Wellington statue's traffic cone for paper-reading pigeon
The Duke of Wellington statue traditionally has a traffic cone atop its head - but a street artist has given the landmark a comical makeover.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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arachnidpress.bsky.social
‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. The Harbour Inn in Garlieston was known as the Galloway Arms Hotel in 1943 and appears in the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...
This modern image shows the Harbour Inn in Garlieston. It is two storeys in height with a slate roof and is finished in white over rough stone. It occupies a corner position on the street, with the building extending out of the right side of the frame and the corner, with a hanging pub sign, on the left. Behind the sign are the frontages of other buildings in the street. The sunlight is coming from the left and glances across the face of the inn. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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peternimmo.bsky.social
Great that this is free to watch. It was John Schlesinger's first cinema film, features music by Ron Grainer, and pioneered a new type of documentary style
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
A full and fulsome obituary for 'our' Elspeth, from Sorcha Dallas Gray at the @agrayarchive.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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muirneag.bsky.social
The first edition of the newsletter for the emerging community at Powderhall. Those of us with long memories will recall when this area was Edinburgh's waste processing site - the stables where the horses that pulled the rubbish carts once slept are being converted into an art & community centre.
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
kenlussey.bsky.social
One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Sarclet Haven on the east coast of Caithness forms a focal point for the story.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html
The image is looking down into a natural harbour formed by grassy cliffs on the right of the frame and sweeping round on the left to a headland that protects the harbour entrance. At the head of the harbour is a sandy and then rocky beach with a grass shelf below the viewer at the foot of the frame. A roofless stone building stands in the bottom left of the frame. The sea beyond the harbour is blue. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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helengrantsays.bsky.social
It's that time of year when OH and I go to be "bodies" for a wilderness medicine training exercise. As I lay in the heather yesterday morning pretending to be horribly ill, this was my view.
View from below of coniferous treetops with blue sky beyond.
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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edinburghreviews.bsky.social
I was one of the first up the LNER Big Wheel for 2025. The view is remarkable, but is the market worth it for locals this year? We investigated the new family hub, the discounts, and the traders.
Edinburgh's Christmas Market Returns: Seven Tonnes of Mulled Gin, Local Discounts, and the Best Views in the City - Edinburgh Reviews
Read our first-hand experience of the 2025 Edinburgh Christmas Market. We ride the Big Wheel, find 7 tonnes of gin, and detail the 20% discount for locals.
edinburgh-reviews.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM