Peigi MacKillop
@peigibheag.bsky.social
Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, champion of orphan data sets. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
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Peigi MacKillop
@peigibheag.bsky.social
· Feb 16
Sadly, renewing this as my pinned post.
'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness'.
Also; 'Under capitalism, man exploits man'.
John Kenneth Galbraith
'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness'.
Also; 'Under capitalism, man exploits man'.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Kelvingrove
We walk the floors
Always hard on the feet
An hour is enough
*
He left school
At thirteen
And can look at a cat
Or a King
Or a Titian
Or a Dali
We look up together
Christ
Of St. John of the cross
Foreshortened
As we are to him
Looking down
And up
##PegsPoyums
We walk the floors
Always hard on the feet
An hour is enough
*
He left school
At thirteen
And can look at a cat
Or a King
Or a Titian
Or a Dali
We look up together
Christ
Of St. John of the cross
Foreshortened
As we are to him
Looking down
And up
##PegsPoyums
February 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Kelvingrove
We walk the floors
Always hard on the feet
An hour is enough
*
He left school
At thirteen
And can look at a cat
Or a King
Or a Titian
Or a Dali
We look up together
Christ
Of St. John of the cross
Foreshortened
As we are to him
Looking down
And up
##PegsPoyums
We walk the floors
Always hard on the feet
An hour is enough
*
He left school
At thirteen
And can look at a cat
Or a King
Or a Titian
Or a Dali
We look up together
Christ
Of St. John of the cross
Foreshortened
As we are to him
Looking down
And up
##PegsPoyums
Mortified that other half can mouth dialogue to Flash Gordon. Why are so many so-called cult films a pile of nonsense. See also Original Dune and Excaliber. All with dialogue from a 14 year old fanfic writer.
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Mortified that other half can mouth dialogue to Flash Gordon. Why are so many so-called cult films a pile of nonsense. See also Original Dune and Excaliber. All with dialogue from a 14 year old fanfic writer.
Eight more ways to break a leg, slice a finger or just plain wreck yourself.
Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events. n.pr/3Zj8zdw
The Winter Olympics get 8 new events, including the first new sport in decades
Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.
n.pr
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Eight more ways to break a leg, slice a finger or just plain wreck yourself.
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Today’s moment of calm
Golden memories
A little owl and two bumblebees.
A moment of interaction, held forever on panels of gold.
Golden memories
A little owl and two bumblebees.
A moment of interaction, held forever on panels of gold.
February 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Today’s moment of calm
Golden memories
A little owl and two bumblebees.
A moment of interaction, held forever on panels of gold.
Golden memories
A little owl and two bumblebees.
A moment of interaction, held forever on panels of gold.
A wonderful film, uncompromising in its wierdness. The design is beautiful and the effects artists were at the top of their game.
Bob McCall’s promo art for 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a wonder in itself. This example was printed in Italy as an oversized lobby card. I do wish I had a copy myself.
February 7, 2026 at 9:03 PM
A wonderful film, uncompromising in its wierdness. The design is beautiful and the effects artists were at the top of their game.
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All my original embroidery landscapes, prints, postcard sets and stickers are all 20% off right now! The Amazon prints are running low and I think the postcards are half gone; everything is linked and all shares very welcome! victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
All my original embroidery landscapes, prints, postcard sets and stickers are all 20% off right now! The Amazon prints are running low and I think the postcards are half gone; everything is linked and all shares very welcome! victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art
Ban-Dia nan coilltean
The caillach cut off my hand
Jealous that it touched her son
In ways she could not
I wait, hiding in the woodlands
Tall, surveying my lands
Her spell will fail in time
And we will be united
(Title: Goddess of the woods)
#PegsPoyums
The caillach cut off my hand
Jealous that it touched her son
In ways she could not
I wait, hiding in the woodlands
Tall, surveying my lands
Her spell will fail in time
And we will be united
(Title: Goddess of the woods)
#PegsPoyums
Every time I walk past this bit of fallen tree I can't help imagining it scuttling around, crablike, after sundown, and getting up to no good.
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Ban-Dia nan coilltean
The caillach cut off my hand
Jealous that it touched her son
In ways she could not
I wait, hiding in the woodlands
Tall, surveying my lands
Her spell will fail in time
And we will be united
(Title: Goddess of the woods)
#PegsPoyums
The caillach cut off my hand
Jealous that it touched her son
In ways she could not
I wait, hiding in the woodlands
Tall, surveying my lands
Her spell will fail in time
And we will be united
(Title: Goddess of the woods)
#PegsPoyums
Grandmother
Slim fingers
Set the fine wool threads
Into the wooden heart of the loom
For a man
*
She cleans houses
And is a midwife
She washes
And scrubs
*
But these travels
Take her over the machair
To pick the brightest flowers
And show them in a coffee jar
All the colours of jewels
#PegsPoyums
Slim fingers
Set the fine wool threads
Into the wooden heart of the loom
For a man
*
She cleans houses
And is a midwife
She washes
And scrubs
*
But these travels
Take her over the machair
To pick the brightest flowers
And show them in a coffee jar
All the colours of jewels
#PegsPoyums
February 6, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Grandmother
Slim fingers
Set the fine wool threads
Into the wooden heart of the loom
For a man
*
She cleans houses
And is a midwife
She washes
And scrubs
*
But these travels
Take her over the machair
To pick the brightest flowers
And show them in a coffee jar
All the colours of jewels
#PegsPoyums
Slim fingers
Set the fine wool threads
Into the wooden heart of the loom
For a man
*
She cleans houses
And is a midwife
She washes
And scrubs
*
But these travels
Take her over the machair
To pick the brightest flowers
And show them in a coffee jar
All the colours of jewels
#PegsPoyums
Not a bad place to lie down @richardmortimer.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Not a bad place to lie down @richardmortimer.bsky.social
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BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS if you wanted a break from the other stuff
I now have a ‘BIRDS’ gallery on my website (that was Doves but is now going to EXPAND!)
www.chloecumming.com/birds
And I have added these three new drawpaintings:
So do have a look! Thanks
www.chloecumming.com/birds
And I have added these three new drawpaintings:
So do have a look! Thanks
February 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS if you wanted a break from the other stuff
Been a sad couple of weeks...
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Been a sad couple of weeks...
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
Here is the librarian
To sort your books
Thrillers
Scottish Interest
Religion
General novels
And many copies
Of the collected works
Of Robert Burns
Well thumbed
Paper edges soft for memories
I sit in your kitchen
Remembering your sister
Painting the fence
#PegsPoyums
To sort your books
Thrillers
Scottish Interest
Religion
General novels
And many copies
Of the collected works
Of Robert Burns
Well thumbed
Paper edges soft for memories
I sit in your kitchen
Remembering your sister
Painting the fence
#PegsPoyums
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Here is the librarian
To sort your books
Thrillers
Scottish Interest
Religion
General novels
And many copies
Of the collected works
Of Robert Burns
Well thumbed
Paper edges soft for memories
I sit in your kitchen
Remembering your sister
Painting the fence
#PegsPoyums
To sort your books
Thrillers
Scottish Interest
Religion
General novels
And many copies
Of the collected works
Of Robert Burns
Well thumbed
Paper edges soft for memories
I sit in your kitchen
Remembering your sister
Painting the fence
#PegsPoyums
Look
Look into the gable end
Standing, framing a window
The nissen hut was blown away
Edges spun through air
Long rusted to razors
Cutting the grass
Like the old men scythed
To feed the beasts
##PegsPoyums
Look into the gable end
Standing, framing a window
The nissen hut was blown away
Edges spun through air
Long rusted to razors
Cutting the grass
Like the old men scythed
To feed the beasts
##PegsPoyums
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Look
Look into the gable end
Standing, framing a window
The nissen hut was blown away
Edges spun through air
Long rusted to razors
Cutting the grass
Like the old men scythed
To feed the beasts
##PegsPoyums
Look into the gable end
Standing, framing a window
The nissen hut was blown away
Edges spun through air
Long rusted to razors
Cutting the grass
Like the old men scythed
To feed the beasts
##PegsPoyums
Reposted by Peigi MacKillop
This is the first printed plan of Ardoch Roman fort in Scotland, produced by antiquarian Robert Sibbald in 1695. Thirty years later, Alexander Gordon described it as 'the most entire and best-preserved of any Roman antiquity of that kind in Britain', which still holds true today! #RomanFortThursday
February 5, 2026 at 9:16 AM
This is the first printed plan of Ardoch Roman fort in Scotland, produced by antiquarian Robert Sibbald in 1695. Thirty years later, Alexander Gordon described it as 'the most entire and best-preserved of any Roman antiquity of that kind in Britain', which still holds true today! #RomanFortThursday
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I know buying original drawings is a strange thing out of keeping with modern habits, but I'm going to encourage it anyway
I’ve just newly now put these four drawings in my pencil-line emphasising gallery, here: www.chloecumming.com/almost-drawi...
Take That happy in 1991, Take That with pale eyes Robbie, but also
I Think I Draw I Am (after Daniel Johnston) and Gauguin and Van Gogh having a time.
Take That happy in 1991, Take That with pale eyes Robbie, but also
I Think I Draw I Am (after Daniel Johnston) and Gauguin and Van Gogh having a time.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I know buying original drawings is a strange thing out of keeping with modern habits, but I'm going to encourage it anyway
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Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentships
The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...
www.herts.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...
This is right up my street
Lithograph by Peter Brook
‘February Fill-Dyke in Wigan’ 1976-77.
From the Twelve Months of the Year series. Size 51 x 71cm.
‘February Fill-Dyke in Wigan’ 1976-77.
From the Twelve Months of the Year series. Size 51 x 71cm.
February 1, 2026 at 11:56 AM
This is right up my street
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Tomorrow I'll be at Glasgow City Chambers to celebrate St Brigid's Day. I've talked about it more on FB here: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...
Thanks for getting to the end of my Brigid thread...
Thanks for getting to the end of my Brigid thread...
Sara Sheridan Writer
Sara Sheridan Writer. 345 likes · 12 talking about this. Posts about the writing life of author Sara Sheridan including historical research, publication adventures and lots of reading. Love books?...
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February 1, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Tomorrow I'll be at Glasgow City Chambers to celebrate St Brigid's Day. I've talked about it more on FB here: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...
Thanks for getting to the end of my Brigid thread...
Thanks for getting to the end of my Brigid thread...
As Stone
If I knew
It was
The last clasp
Of your beautiful hands
The last forehead kiss
The last 'see you in a fortnight'
I would have held your hands
And kissed your forehead
One hundred times
While we spoke of Golden Water Horses
##PegsPoyums
If I knew
It was
The last clasp
Of your beautiful hands
The last forehead kiss
The last 'see you in a fortnight'
I would have held your hands
And kissed your forehead
One hundred times
While we spoke of Golden Water Horses
##PegsPoyums
February 1, 2026 at 10:47 AM
As Stone
If I knew
It was
The last clasp
Of your beautiful hands
The last forehead kiss
The last 'see you in a fortnight'
I would have held your hands
And kissed your forehead
One hundred times
While we spoke of Golden Water Horses
##PegsPoyums
If I knew
It was
The last clasp
Of your beautiful hands
The last forehead kiss
The last 'see you in a fortnight'
I would have held your hands
And kissed your forehead
One hundred times
While we spoke of Golden Water Horses
##PegsPoyums
Today I have a day off from the 'bizzy bizzy' of house clearing. Knackered.
February 1, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Today I have a day off from the 'bizzy bizzy' of house clearing. Knackered.
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Been a sad couple of weeks...
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
#PegsPoyums
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
#PegsPoyums
January 31, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Been a sad couple of weeks...
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
#PegsPoyums
Thanks
For coming over
I have this house of stuff
I don't know what is
Important
And what is not
*
Can I hold it all
Against my cheek
Softness
So brittle
Thin shells
Cradled in my hands
One tiny slip
Will shatter them
#PegsPoyums
Reposted by Peigi MacKillop
The Hutments: 551 timber houses were constructed in five local authority areas by the end of September 1921 under this Scottish Board of Health post-WW1 initiative. #housing 📚🗃️
thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/t...
thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/t...
February 1, 2026 at 8:40 AM
The Hutments: 551 timber houses were constructed in five local authority areas by the end of September 1921 under this Scottish Board of Health post-WW1 initiative. #housing 📚🗃️
thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/t...
thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/t...