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Rachel Fox
@rachelfoxscot.bsky.social
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Words and pics (and other people's songs) from Dundee, Scotland
https://slowlaneshuffle.blogspot.com/
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Beautiful couple of days in Dunkeld 🍁

#scotland #autumn #perthshire
Larch trees by the river Tay Autumn evening sky by the Tay in Dunkeld Gate at Dunkeld cathedral
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Reposted by Rachel Fox
thenerve.news
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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Views from Broughty Castle Museum yesterday, looking along the Tay towards Dundee and along the beach towards Angus and just up at the beautiful blue sky 🌞

#bluesky #blueskies #dundee #angus #scotland #scottishskies #broughtyferry
Broughty castle, looking through an arrowslit towards a red house along the waterfront Tower and blue skies at Broughty castle Looking from Broughty castle along the river Tay towards Dundee Looking from Broughty castle along the beach towards Monifieth
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Very few folk turned out to protest about immigration in Dundee today but there were lots of us there to counter them just in case. We were a strong friendly crowd, singing and chanting all afternoon, reclaiming the saltire and welcoming refugees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎶
#dundee #scotlandwelcomesrefugees #saltire
Placards saying refugees are welcome in Scotland.
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Rachel Fox
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*Stand with New Dundonians - Refugees are Welcome Here!*

The far-right are targeting refugees in Dundee again this Saturday 20th September - again, we say no in oor city!
Photo of Dundee. Text reads: stand with new dundonians. Refugees are welcome here. Gather at Alloway Place, DD4 8UA, 1pm, Saturday 20th September. Various organisation and trade Union logos who support the demo are included at the bottom of the image: fire brigades Union, unison Dundee city branch, stand up to racism tayside, Dundee pensioners forum, unity community, unite retired members, Dundee TUC, Dundee for Palestine, women against the far right
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Available to watch online - well worth your time:

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

#EdinburghBookFestival #AClimateOfTruth
Watch online: Mike Berners-Lee: Climate Action and the Power of Truth
From Sat 16 Aug - Global emissions are worse than ever. The ‘polycrisis’ we face reaches far beyond the climate. Why have we continued to fail when we have the means to succeed?…
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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So many people are getting in touch asking if they can get back copies of Friday's paper

The answer is no ... we are completely sold out. Everywhere.

You can order a poster version here though!

www.thenational.scot/news/2534754...
Our Trump front page completely sold out – so you can buy it as a poster
OUR team has been totally overwhelmed by the volume of people seeking physical copies of Friday's viral Trump "convicted felon" front…
www.thenational.scot
July 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Brilliant work @vadundee.bsky.social just now - 'Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine'. Free entry to this exhibition with detail, history, art, politics and beauty - all in a couple of small rooms.

#dundee #tatreez #palestine #embroidery
Dresses featuring Tatreez Absence does not mean forgetting by Leena Nammari 2022 Dress damaged in bombing of the Rafah Museum in Gaza 2023 Bedouin dress
July 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Been away, caught a few rainbows on the way 🌈

#rainbows #northumberland #dumfriesandgalloway
End of a rainbow coming out of a cloud over beach in Dumfries and Galloway Rainbow and clouds over beach in Dumfries and Galloway Rainbow over trees in Northumberland Rainbow and trees through hotel window in Northumberland
July 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Did a section of the Dundee Green Circular on Saturday (about 12 miles anticlockwise, on foot not bike) as part of my #KiltwalkDundee prep. Lots to see along the Dighty Burn and beyond 📷

#dundee #walking
Bird mosaics on Dighty Burn bridge Heron mural near old Michelin factory Seven Arches Viaduct View of Broughty Ferry from Grassy Beach
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I've been out walking a bit recently to get ready for #DundeeKiltwalk in August. Here are a couple of last week's local sights 📷

Dog artwork by Paco Graff

#StreetArt #dogs #Dundee #walking
Mural in Dundee of a black and white dog by Paco Graff The beach at Broughty Ferry with blue sky and lifeguard hut
June 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Recent reading/listening. Somethings old, something new(ish), something borrowed etc.

I've switched to @libro.fm for audio, still using Libby app for free ones too.

#books #booksky #audiobooks
Covers of six books: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld, Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (audio), Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty, Fury by Kathryn Heyman (audio), Middle England by Jonathan Coe, The Green Road by Anne Enright (audio).
June 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Tree songs for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
How about 'Niel Gow's Apprentice' by the marvellous Michael Marra? Mentions 'the fiddle tree' in Dunkeld (Burns used Gow's tunes..). Others have released versions of Marra's song (incl. Fairport Convention).
#MichaelMarra

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Niel Gow's Apprentice
YouTube video by Michael Marra - Topic
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June 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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With so much negativity in the world it was many happy breaths of positivity to finally witness the Spell Songs project live on stage at the weekend. Beautiful music, lovely people, all the good tears. And "let the raven call you home" to fade... 🎶 🦊

#SpellSongs #Edinburgh #LiveMusic #LostWords
Stage at Usher Hall just before Spell Songs show. Banners with Jackie Morris artwork from Lost Words books. Edinburgh Castle on a sunny day.
May 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Just back from a lovely trip up north. Beautiful views of Kyle of Sutherland (from house and riverbank/river), a dip in Loch Shin and more sun than we knew what to do with...

#Scotland #ScottishHighlands #Sunshine #Sutherland
View from the house, looking over Kyle of Sutherland. A red canoe on the shale beach at edge of Kyle of Sutherland. Swimmer in Loch Shin. Sunset driving south from Lairg to Kyle of Sutherland.
May 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Was reminded today of all the 4-line poems (mostly political in content) that I wrote for the other place. I put them all together in a post a while back:

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Art at the top of the Law, Dundee  by  Paco Graff  (photo 1st May 2020) I got a Twitter account quite late in the day (my fi...
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May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Fields around Errol, Perthshire, yesterday 🌞

#scotland #perthshire #april
White clouds, blue sky, fields of yellow oil seed rape and narrow road in Perthshire A straight line of narrow trees, a green field, white clouds and blue sky in Perthshire
April 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Beautiful sunshine at Greyhope Bay, Torry, Aberdeen on Thursday 🌞

#scotland #aberdeen #GreyhopeBay #torry
Gorse, lighthouse,sea and blue sky Bench, river, Aberdeen city and blue sky Coffee cup, gorse, lighthouse, sea and blue sky
April 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Could you tell folks that my album is coming out on 4th April? It would be most helpful. Thank you. findlaynapier.ffm.to/outsider
Outsider - Findlay Napier
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March 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Finished reading this today. One of those wow books - just reading it made me tired, can't imagine writing such a thing. First published in 2018, I don't know I missed it up till now, especially when, according to the quotes, everyone else in the world has read it already.

#Books #Booksky
Cover of the novel 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers
March 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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@cerysmatthews.bsky.social according to no 19 in this list from Rolling Stone, it was someone else who brought in that whistle... I don't know which is fact and which fiction:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
What the Bob Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown' Gets Wrong
What is true and what is false in the new Bob Dylan biopic, 'A Complete Unknown.'
www.rollingstone.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Interesting to hear some Byron on this week's #Paradise

A few years back my partner @markonline.bsky.social made this track using the same poem (vocal by @josephmillson.bsky.social ):

markived.bandcamp.com/track/dark-t...

#ParadiseHulu #poems #tv
Dark Times, by MarKived
from the album Dark Times EP
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February 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Fine music in B Ferry, Dundee yesterday. Hannah Read, Michael Starkey and Cahalen Morrison kept us spellbound with old-time sounds, originals and covers.

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social 'The Fungi Sessions Vol 1' is inspired by fungi and her father mycologist Nick Read 🍄 Made for you 😊

#ScottishMusic
A hand holding the CD cover of 'The Fungi Sessions Vol 1' by Hannah Read Musician Hannah Read at merch stall holding her CD Michael Starkey, Hannah Read and Cahalen Morrison on stage in St Mary's Church Broughty Ferry, Dundee on 7 Feb 2025
February 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Didn't know the Dundee Tapestry was back on display at V & A Dundee but it is 😁
Also Orkney (and other places) featured in A Fragile Correspondence.
Both exhibitions are free, no paid exhibition currently.
#DundeeTapestry #dundee @vadundee.bsky.social
Part of Dundee Tapestry View out of window from V & A towards Discovery Earthbound exhibit at V & A Dundee, map of Orkney and soil samples from different areas on the map Info board for Earthbound Orkney exhibit
February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Dundee, yesterday morning.
#rivertay #dundee #scotland
Sun and clouds reflected in river Tay, Dundee Blue sky over river Tay and Tay Rail Bridge
February 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM