LKHX
@lyndahaughney.bsky.social
Streetwalker, struggler, stravaiger, strawwoman
I interchanged on to the Tram. I’m not doing too well at this. “For the next 15 minutes,” I told myself, “my life’s mission is to remember to Tap Off”; bc yesterday I only remembered 30 mins later (like, could I have run back & tapped off then??)
Well, I did remember. Unfortunately only just now 😢
Well, I did remember. Unfortunately only just now 😢
I say my car is extant, but it’s been in a coma for 6 weeks now. Today’s transport stravaiging meant that I could easily visit the RSA while interchanging, & have a look at the Xmas show. I liked the work of Henry Kondracki, previously unknown to me.
www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/315-...
www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/315-...
Henry Kondracki RSA - Overview
Born in Edinburgh in 1953 to Polish parents, Henry Kondracki RSA grew up under the influence of the American movies and cartoons that he would see in the cinemas around the city each week. Leaving sch...
www.royalscottishacademy.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I interchanged on to the Tram. I’m not doing too well at this. “For the next 15 minutes,” I told myself, “my life’s mission is to remember to Tap Off”; bc yesterday I only remembered 30 mins later (like, could I have run back & tapped off then??)
Well, I did remember. Unfortunately only just now 😢
Well, I did remember. Unfortunately only just now 😢
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Heaney on the Underground
Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I say my car is extant, but it’s been in a coma for 6 weeks now. Today’s transport stravaiging meant that I could easily visit the RSA while interchanging, & have a look at the Xmas show. I liked the work of Henry Kondracki, previously unknown to me.
www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/315-...
www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/315-...
Henry Kondracki RSA - Overview
Born in Edinburgh in 1953 to Polish parents, Henry Kondracki RSA grew up under the influence of the American movies and cartoons that he would see in the cinemas around the city each week. Leaving sch...
www.royalscottishacademy.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I say my car is extant, but it’s been in a coma for 6 weeks now. Today’s transport stravaiging meant that I could easily visit the RSA while interchanging, & have a look at the Xmas show. I liked the work of Henry Kondracki, previously unknown to me.
www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/315-...
www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/315-...
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South Korean artist Jung Lee, from the neon series #WomensArt
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
South Korean artist Jung Lee, from the neon series #WomensArt
Introduce yourself with 5 (or 3!) cars you've owned:
Vauxhall Astra auto (1994 reg, destroyed in theft attempt)
Vauxhall Corsa (2004 reg, failing brakes & seals)
Vauxhall Crossland X (2018, extant)
In total they cost me £9k to buy… on which basis I should maybe include my shortlived GSD tern…
Vauxhall Astra auto (1994 reg, destroyed in theft attempt)
Vauxhall Corsa (2004 reg, failing brakes & seals)
Vauxhall Crossland X (2018, extant)
In total they cost me £9k to buy… on which basis I should maybe include my shortlived GSD tern…
Kia Mentor
Toyota Corolla
Honda Jazz
Citroen C3 Picasso…..
….and that’s it. I get second hand cars and keep them running….
Toyota Corolla
Honda Jazz
Citroen C3 Picasso…..
….and that’s it. I get second hand cars and keep them running….
Introduce yourself with 5 (or 6!) cars you’ve owned:
Ford Escort
MGF
Another Ford Escort
Ford Focus
Another Ford Focus
Nissan Qashqai
Ford Escort
MGF
Another Ford Escort
Ford Focus
Another Ford Focus
Nissan Qashqai
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 (or 3!) cars you've owned:
Vauxhall Astra auto (1994 reg, destroyed in theft attempt)
Vauxhall Corsa (2004 reg, failing brakes & seals)
Vauxhall Crossland X (2018, extant)
In total they cost me £9k to buy… on which basis I should maybe include my shortlived GSD tern…
Vauxhall Astra auto (1994 reg, destroyed in theft attempt)
Vauxhall Corsa (2004 reg, failing brakes & seals)
Vauxhall Crossland X (2018, extant)
In total they cost me £9k to buy… on which basis I should maybe include my shortlived GSD tern…
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A10: Thanks also to everyone who will be working (and volunteering) over the festive period, #999Family, hospitality workers, care sector, those working in security etc. #EdinburghHour
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A10: Thanks also to everyone who will be working (and volunteering) over the festive period, #999Family, hospitality workers, care sector, those working in security etc. #EdinburghHour
This is a brilliant idea, and now I can’t even remember what I did with our trampoline, which was given to us by our neighbours when their children were in their 20s 😬. Did I roll it somewhere illicit? Did it blow away in the night unnoticed?
A7 When our kids outgrew their trampoline, I upturned it and made it into a den. I wish I'd planted a Willow Dome/Arbour, which would make a great den for all ages - anyone done this? You can see a list of willow providers here: willowscotland.wordpress.com/willow-growe... #EdinburghHour
Willow Growers
The suppliers listed here grow and supply willow for basketry, gardens, sculpture, landscape and conservation work. Listed in alphabetical order of surname. No guarantee is implied by their inclusi…
willowscotland.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is a brilliant idea, and now I can’t even remember what I did with our trampoline, which was given to us by our neighbours when their children were in their 20s 😬. Did I roll it somewhere illicit? Did it blow away in the night unnoticed?
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A4: Every night there are people sleeping rough on the streets of Edinburgh. Just £25 to @bethanychristiantrust.com could save a life. #EdinburghHour bsky.app/profile/beth...
Temperatures have plummeted. ❄️
Every night there are people sleeping rough on the streets of Edinburgh.
Just £25 could save a life.
https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/donate/bed/
Every night there are people sleeping rough on the streets of Edinburgh.
Just £25 could save a life.
https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/donate/bed/
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A4: Every night there are people sleeping rough on the streets of Edinburgh. Just £25 to @bethanychristiantrust.com could save a life. #EdinburghHour bsky.app/profile/beth...
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Sally Rooney is one of the best things Irish right now.
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Irish author Rooney says her books could disappear from UK stores altogether
www.irishtimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sally Rooney is one of the best things Irish right now.
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
It's called *integrity*.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Five weeks left in 2025, & I want to close so many of the administrative, legal, home maintenance & emotional loops I have open (& at least one creative project - a debt to someone.)
I’ll never enter 2026 with a clean slate, but something close to this would feel so liberating.
An uphill challenge.
I’ll never enter 2026 with a clean slate, but something close to this would feel so liberating.
An uphill challenge.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Five weeks left in 2025, & I want to close so many of the administrative, legal, home maintenance & emotional loops I have open (& at least one creative project - a debt to someone.)
I’ll never enter 2026 with a clean slate, but something close to this would feel so liberating.
An uphill challenge.
I’ll never enter 2026 with a clean slate, but something close to this would feel so liberating.
An uphill challenge.
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So on the bus through late November running
by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Two Girls Singing”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021
#poem #poetry
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by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Two Girls Singing”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So on the bus through late November running
by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Two Girls Singing”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “Two Girls Singing”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
Not sure about the wisdom of holding a tray bake sale in a school that has a stomach flu outbreak, but there you have it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not sure about the wisdom of holding a tray bake sale in a school that has a stomach flu outbreak, but there you have it.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Massive Attack (Point Depot, 1992)
The Delgados (Glasgow…2001?)
The Gotan Project (the Usher Hall, 2003)
Cesaria Evora (Usher Hall, 2004)
Joan As Policewoman (Òran Mòr, 2011)
Robert Plant (SEC Armadillo, 2017)
Massive Attack (Point Depot, 1992)
The Delgados (Glasgow…2001?)
The Gotan Project (the Usher Hall, 2003)
Cesaria Evora (Usher Hall, 2004)
Joan As Policewoman (Òran Mòr, 2011)
Robert Plant (SEC Armadillo, 2017)
5 concerts just this year should be introduction enough:
Moin
Stick In The Wheel
Smote
Decius
Bridghe Chaimbeul
All were tremendous
Moin
Stick In The Wheel
Smote
Decius
Bridghe Chaimbeul
All were tremendous
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
The Sweet (1974)
Sex Pistols (1977)
Nico (1984)
Hüsker Dü (1989)
William Basinski (2022)
The Sweet (1974)
Sex Pistols (1977)
Nico (1984)
Hüsker Dü (1989)
William Basinski (2022)
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Massive Attack (Point Depot, 1992)
The Delgados (Glasgow…2001?)
The Gotan Project (the Usher Hall, 2003)
Cesaria Evora (Usher Hall, 2004)
Joan As Policewoman (Òran Mòr, 2011)
Robert Plant (SEC Armadillo, 2017)
Massive Attack (Point Depot, 1992)
The Delgados (Glasgow…2001?)
The Gotan Project (the Usher Hall, 2003)
Cesaria Evora (Usher Hall, 2004)
Joan As Policewoman (Òran Mòr, 2011)
Robert Plant (SEC Armadillo, 2017)
It’s going to be dark soon! Where shall
I walk today? 🧭🌃
I walk today? 🧭🌃
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s going to be dark soon! Where shall
I walk today? 🧭🌃
I walk today? 🧭🌃
Great story about the first time #Gaelic is heard in a feature film.
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Great story about the first time #Gaelic is heard in a feature film.
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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After a couple of tweaks, I think this is done. I don’t want to do too much to it.
Oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. I’ll be adding it to my website: www.artachart.com so do message me if interested in buying it.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #hills #irishartist #darkness
Oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. I’ll be adding it to my website: www.artachart.com so do message me if interested in buying it.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #hills #irishartist #darkness
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
After a couple of tweaks, I think this is done. I don’t want to do too much to it.
Oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. I’ll be adding it to my website: www.artachart.com so do message me if interested in buying it.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #hills #irishartist #darkness
Oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. I’ll be adding it to my website: www.artachart.com so do message me if interested in buying it.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #hills #irishartist #darkness
With the 25% discount*, child & I could 🔁 to London with 2 bed nights for £367.50.
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
With the 25% discount*, child & I could 🔁 to London with 2 bed nights for £367.50.
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A long read but interesting. A quiet call to resistance - the history of literacy is the history of class struggle.
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A long read but interesting. A quiet call to resistance - the history of literacy is the history of class struggle.
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Torduff Reservoir and the Firth of Forth #todayswalk
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Torduff Reservoir and the Firth of Forth #todayswalk
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Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
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“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.”
—“An Apology for Idlers”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825
—“An Apology for Idlers”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.”
—“An Apology for Idlers”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825
—“An Apology for Idlers”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825
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🚦 It’s Road Safety Week, and like many of you, we’ve been thinking about what it feels like to move through our cities, whether that's walking kids to school, cycling to work, or just trying to cross the road.
Too big for our streets: the harms of SUV use in Scottish cities - Transform Scotland
Professor of Transport & Health at Napier University, Dr Adrian Davis, writes for Transform Scotland. “SUVs are now one of the biggest emerging threats to road safety in Scottish cities.”...
transform.scot
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚦 It’s Road Safety Week, and like many of you, we’ve been thinking about what it feels like to move through our cities, whether that's walking kids to school, cycling to work, or just trying to cross the road.
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from