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@lordey.bsky.social
Gazer out of windows. You name it I've probably done it. No, definitely not that. 🏴 🍉
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History books include Secret Aberdeen. Fiction - Evil Brings Men Together and
The Durer Affair written under Alex Chisholm
Blogger lenathehyena.wordpress.com
History books include Secret Aberdeen. Fiction - Evil Brings Men Together and
The Durer Affair written under Alex Chisholm
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@lordey.bsky.social
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They came for Scotland: Westminster’s Robber Barons
Big boys bash smaller boys. That’s the reality of life’s unfairness. Big powers bash smaller powers. Because they can. Empires are created in this way. Do this or else – it’s the language of …
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Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.
Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.
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Keir Starmer has said the UK will 'reclaim our heritage' in a bizarre attack on the SNP
Keir Starmer pledges to 'reclaim our heritage' in bizarre attack on SNP
www.thenational.scot
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Keir Starmer has said the UK will 'reclaim our heritage' in a bizarre attack on the SNP
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Call to rethink investing public money in 'Scotland's second largest landowner'.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#LandReform
#NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#LandReform
#NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷
Call to rethink investing public funds in 'Scotland's second largest landowner'
Land campaigners claim Gresham House has recently become Scotland’s second biggest landowner.
www.scotsman.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Call to rethink investing public money in 'Scotland's second largest landowner'.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#LandReform
#NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#LandReform
#NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷
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"The women here [Kirkwall] are much addicted to pleasure, which I attribute to the abundance of fish."
Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529
Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The women here [Kirkwall] are much addicted to pleasure, which I attribute to the abundance of fish."
Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529
Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
Letters to his cousin in the Scottish Highlands from a young Black Isle lad in the trenches in 1916 and 1917 thanking her for food parcels.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Letters to his cousin in the Scottish Highlands from a young Black Isle lad in the trenches in 1916 and 1917 thanking her for food parcels.
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Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
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Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
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Sailors from the corvette, HMS Curacoa, at #Campbeltown, #Argyll, in 1899. There was an outbreak of scarlet fever on board whilst the ship was in the harbour and a temporary camp had to be set up ashore whilst the vessel was fumigated
[source: MacGrory Brothers Collection; liveArgyll Libraries]
[source: MacGrory Brothers Collection; liveArgyll Libraries]
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sailors from the corvette, HMS Curacoa, at #Campbeltown, #Argyll, in 1899. There was an outbreak of scarlet fever on board whilst the ship was in the harbour and a temporary camp had to be set up ashore whilst the vessel was fumigated
[source: MacGrory Brothers Collection; liveArgyll Libraries]
[source: MacGrory Brothers Collection; liveArgyll Libraries]
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Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle
#Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle
#Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle
lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/t...
Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.
Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.
They came for Scotland: Westminster’s Robber Barons
Big boys bash smaller boys. That’s the reality of life’s unfairness. Big powers bash smaller powers. Because they can. Empires are created in this way. Do this or else – it’s the language of …
lenathehyena.wordpress.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.
Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.
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These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities
50 still missing
Likely to traffickers
How could this have happened?
Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Blackbirds feeding on hawthorn berries
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Blackbirds feeding on hawthorn berries
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Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist #Halloween
Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film
—via the National Trust for Scotland
#Gaelic
www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidh...
Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film
—via the National Trust for Scotland
#Gaelic
www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidh...
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist #Halloween
Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film
—via the National Trust for Scotland
#Gaelic
www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidh...
Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film
—via the National Trust for Scotland
#Gaelic
www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidh...
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🇬🇧 Red Tories mining Scotland to fully exploit our energy resources, in order to supply England, and to reduce English bills 🇬🇧
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🇬🇧 Red Tories mining Scotland to fully exploit our energy resources, in order to supply England, and to reduce English bills 🇬🇧
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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On 21st of October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed in the horrific Aberfan disaster, caused by the failure of the National Coal Board.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.
Never again.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.
Never again.
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
On 21st of October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed in the horrific Aberfan disaster, caused by the failure of the National Coal Board.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.
Never again.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.
Never again.
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scotish renewable energy are paying huge fees to connect to the National Grid while the English projects are paid to connect to the very same grid National Grid figures reveal 🏴 pay £465million cost for national grid access while 🏴 and 🏴 are being handed a connection subsidy of £30million a year. 👇
October 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
scotish renewable energy are paying huge fees to connect to the National Grid while the English projects are paid to connect to the very same grid National Grid figures reveal 🏴 pay £465million cost for national grid access while 🏴 and 🏴 are being handed a connection subsidy of £30million a year. 👇
lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t... The Scottish beheading machine. 'And some folk deserved a double death and were heided having previously been executed by other means'.
The Merciless Maiden
The sweetest maiden I ever kissed. The laws of states alter over time. In 1631 Marion Astein of Burntisland was beheaded for adultery and 15 years later Margaret Thomson, wife of the minister of Ba…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t... The Scottish beheading machine. 'And some folk deserved a double death and were heided having previously been executed by other means'.