Paul 4Jags
@paul4jags.bsky.social
Posting on social media in a personal capacity about stuff I like, such as running, hillwalking, social history, big books, terrible music, and awful football teams.
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When Hillwalking became Munro Bagging
How I became a Munro bagger, and the extra challenges of hillwalking with diabetes
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Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
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A plaque in Glasgow Royal Infirmary commemorating staff members that died in the First World War, including a relative of mine who was a nurse in a field hospital in France that was bombed. Remembrance should include striving to stop things like that happening again.
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A plaque in Glasgow Royal Infirmary commemorating staff members that died in the First World War, including a relative of mine who was a nurse in a field hospital in France that was bombed. Remembrance should include striving to stop things like that happening again.
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Marie Curie was born #OnThisDay 1867.
Madame Curie visited Glasgow in 1929, being hosted by Professor Archibald Young and Mrs Anna Young.
Here is a photo of Irene Curie, Madame Curie, and Mrs Young enjoying the fresh Scottish air at Loch Fyne 😅
#heritage #mariecurie
Madame Curie visited Glasgow in 1929, being hosted by Professor Archibald Young and Mrs Anna Young.
Here is a photo of Irene Curie, Madame Curie, and Mrs Young enjoying the fresh Scottish air at Loch Fyne 😅
#heritage #mariecurie
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Marie Curie was born #OnThisDay 1867.
Madame Curie visited Glasgow in 1929, being hosted by Professor Archibald Young and Mrs Anna Young.
Here is a photo of Irene Curie, Madame Curie, and Mrs Young enjoying the fresh Scottish air at Loch Fyne 😅
#heritage #mariecurie
Madame Curie visited Glasgow in 1929, being hosted by Professor Archibald Young and Mrs Anna Young.
Here is a photo of Irene Curie, Madame Curie, and Mrs Young enjoying the fresh Scottish air at Loch Fyne 😅
#heritage #mariecurie
I often re-read James Kelman's short stories, but haven't re-read A Disaffection until now. I first read it when I was about 10 years younger than the main character. Now I'm ages with his dad, and seeing it all from a different perspective. Powerful stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I often re-read James Kelman's short stories, but haven't re-read A Disaffection until now. I first read it when I was about 10 years younger than the main character. Now I'm ages with his dad, and seeing it all from a different perspective. Powerful stuff.
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Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
When Hillwalking became Munro Bagging
How I became a Munro bagger, and the extra challenges of hillwalking with diabetes
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
When I was a kid I would read about owl pellets and dissecting them out to find out what the bird's last meal was. However I never came across any in Maryhill. This is a cracking one that I found at the weekend on Ben More in Mull.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
When I was a kid I would read about owl pellets and dissecting them out to find out what the bird's last meal was. However I never came across any in Maryhill. This is a cracking one that I found at the weekend on Ben More in Mull.
Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
When Hillwalking became Munro Bagging
How I became a Munro bagger, and the extra challenges of hillwalking with diabetes
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
I've come to Mull this weekend to complete (compleat?) my Munro round with Ben More, the 282 Scottish peaks over 3000 feet. The plan tonight in Tobermory is a curry and some pints. Cheers.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I've come to Mull this weekend to complete (compleat?) my Munro round with Ben More, the 282 Scottish peaks over 3000 feet. The plan tonight in Tobermory is a curry and some pints. Cheers.
Absolutely lovely to be back in Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, for the first time in about 15 years.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Absolutely lovely to be back in Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, for the first time in about 15 years.
Some of the gargoyles and carvings on Walter Douglas Campbell's eccentric vSt Conan's Kirk, in Lochawe. The rabbit looks particularly rabid with the weed choked mouth. Or mad March hares?
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Some of the gargoyles and carvings on Walter Douglas Campbell's eccentric vSt Conan's Kirk, in Lochawe. The rabbit looks particularly rabid with the weed choked mouth. Or mad March hares?
I would go to see any old shite with my cousin and my brother, always a joy, but I absolutely loved that gig tonight with Nick Heyward. He's absolutely lovely and must have an ageing portrait of himself in his attic. Wee treat having The Bluebells come on for the encore.
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I would go to see any old shite with my cousin and my brother, always a joy, but I absolutely loved that gig tonight with Nick Heyward. He's absolutely lovely and must have an ageing portrait of himself in his attic. Wee treat having The Bluebells come on for the encore.
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Looking forward to chairing this with irrepressible duo Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi, whose company I love, & Steven Veerapen, whom I'm excited to meet. Their books are terrific and I'm sure it will be a lively event. Please come if you can: Sunday (Nov 9), 6pm, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
How to Kill a Witch and Witches: Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell and Steven Veerapen with Dani Garavelli - Glasgow Life
How to Kill a Witch and Witches
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November 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Looking forward to chairing this with irrepressible duo Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi, whose company I love, & Steven Veerapen, whom I'm excited to meet. Their books are terrific and I'm sure it will be a lively event. Please come if you can: Sunday (Nov 9), 6pm, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Great to see Autechre perform tonight in Glasgow, although when I say "see" getting assailed by glitchy, rib-vibrating music while the room is kept completely in darkness has been used as a form of torture I believe. #livereview
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Great to see Autechre perform tonight in Glasgow, although when I say "see" getting assailed by glitchy, rib-vibrating music while the room is kept completely in darkness has been used as a form of torture I believe. #livereview
Partick Thistle 5-0 Queens Park
There's only one team in Glasgow
There's only one team in Glasgow
November 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Partick Thistle 5-0 Queens Park
There's only one team in Glasgow
There's only one team in Glasgow
My wife and I both separately grew up watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures on telly, which we hadn't ever realised until we stumbled upon the lecture theatre on a random trip across London last year, and both got nostalgically excited.
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My wife and I both separately grew up watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures on telly, which we hadn't ever realised until we stumbled upon the lecture theatre on a random trip across London last year, and both got nostalgically excited.
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On this, if you grew up watching the Christmas Lectures or watch them now or have anything to say about them, I’m taking oral histories. About 20 mins over Zoom, if you’re lucky one of the cats might join us.
In lovely science news, it is now official: I am the inaugural Writer in Residence at the Royal Institution to mark 200 years of the Christmas Lectures: www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
Tracy King announced as Writer in Residence to the CHRISTMAS LECTURES
Critically acclaimed author appointed as Writer in Residence to the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On this, if you grew up watching the Christmas Lectures or watch them now or have anything to say about them, I’m taking oral histories. About 20 mins over Zoom, if you’re lucky one of the cats might join us.
It's that point of the week, as observed by James Kelman in A Disaffection.
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It's that point of the week, as observed by James Kelman in A Disaffection.
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I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
Can't believe I'm getting drawn in to this baseball game.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Can't believe I'm getting drawn in to this baseball game.
Turnip lanterns and guising, or you're doing it wrong. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Turnip lanterns and guising, or you're doing it wrong. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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I love how magnificently the ptarmigan blend into the hillside at this time of year, as they turn gradually white as the hillsides do (when the seasons turn on time). They needed it today with two young golden eagles out looking for food.
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I love how magnificently the ptarmigan blend into the hillside at this time of year, as they turn gradually white as the hillsides do (when the seasons turn on time). They needed it today with two young golden eagles out looking for food.
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Up in the snow dusted Mamores today, walking to Binnein Mòr and Na Gruagaichean, and looking down on Sgùrr Eilde Mòr where I twisted my knee in the scree last time I was up here. Nobody enjoys walking with a scree knee.
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Up in the snow dusted Mamores today, walking to Binnein Mòr and Na Gruagaichean, and looking down on Sgùrr Eilde Mòr where I twisted my knee in the scree last time I was up here. Nobody enjoys walking with a scree knee.
Up in the snow dusted Mamores today, walking to Binnein Mòr and Na Gruagaichean, and looking down on Sgùrr Eilde Mòr where I twisted my knee in the scree last time I was up here. Nobody enjoys walking with a scree knee.
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Up in the snow dusted Mamores today, walking to Binnein Mòr and Na Gruagaichean, and looking down on Sgùrr Eilde Mòr where I twisted my knee in the scree last time I was up here. Nobody enjoys walking with a scree knee.
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For the sake of completeness I've visited the other Grey Mare's Tail waterfall, in Kinlocheven, today.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
For the sake of completeness I've visited the other Grey Mare's Tail waterfall, in Kinlocheven, today.
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Grey Mare's Tail and Loch Skene in the Moffat hills. John Buchan country.
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Grey Mare's Tail and Loch Skene in the Moffat hills. John Buchan country.