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HT Burbridge
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Part-Cockney writer, sub-editor and flibbertigibbet living in Scotland. Music, pictures, books, and other stuff.
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#Alphabetchallenge #WeekUForUnloved
#Photography
Shot of an abandoned blue fair isle mitten draped over a metal chain link front garden fence. Gravel, a spiky green plant and a sandstone wall are behind the fence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Thanks Paula, so sorry for your loss. I’m hanging on in there, lots trips visiting dad in hospital, but the views are beautiful 🤍 x
Shot of the Wallace Monument looking across to the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#MusicChallenge
#NovemberAlchemy
22/11: The Last Apple's Descent

Little Green Apples - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
🎵 youtu.be/a4_d6iqQ2Ms
Photo of Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry album with the vinyl record playing in front
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#Photography

TV show: CHiPs

The Meadows, #Edinburgh
B&W phot of a girl holding a punnet of chips in a park in winter. Her nail varnish is chipped. There are trunks of bare trees. People are walking by on a path in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#Photography

TV show: Cutting It

Hairdressers, Southside
B&W shot inside a hairdressers. It has distressed wooden panel walls, vintage teacups, mirrors, dressing room lighting - you can see a reflection of people walking by window in one of the mirrors.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#Television #MarqueeMoon #MusicSky
B&W photograph of a vinyl copy of Marquee Moon by Television with the record playing in front
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Rainbow over the Tweed, Dryburgh Abbey

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#photography
#mobilephotography
#scotland
#scottishborders
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #photography

Games night, Southside
Black and white photograph of people sitting playing a card game casting shadows on the table of counters in front of them. You can just see their hands holding the cards.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Photography

Boroughloch, #Edinburgh
Shot through a sandstone arch to a close of narrow tenement buildings with lighted windows against a inky twilight sky with a puff of white cloud
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Stained glass windows, Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed
B&W shot looking up to the shadows in the vaulted ceiling of the church, an stone arch, stone bricks, a circular recessed stained glass window are all illuminated by shafts of light from another stained glass window with three panels on the right
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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#WeekRForRock
#AlphabetChallenge

Winter walk, Arthur’s Seat
Colour shot of a strip of craggy rock in winter sunlight, to the right of it scrubby grass with the silhouette of a bare little tree with a crow in it against a blue sky
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQForQuiet
#Photography
Black-and-white picture of a misty empty street at night with hazy street lights a tree on the right and a car in the distance.
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink

Plastic greenhouse, Duddingston
Shot of the end of a curved plastic greenhouse at dusk against a tree-lined pink sunset sky. You can see a green vine curving inside and two white flowering bushes either side of the door.
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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#WeekPforPink
#AlphabetChallenge
#photography

Summerhall, Edinburgh
Image of a Victorian red brick building partially illuminated with pink lighting, its windows reflecting trees and a sunset
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#coffeetime #moomins
B&W picture of a Moomins mug (the ancestor Moomin) on a wooden table.
October 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Rooftop and trees, Scottish Borders #suburbia #blueskymonday #photography
Gabled rooftop and chimney with aerial next to yellow/green leylandii trees against a vivid clear, blue sky
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Edinburgh sunset #photography
Shot of an Edinburgh street roof-line against a blue and pink sunset sky
October 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#Edinburgh skyline looking suitably autumnal atm 🍁
View of yellowing autumnal treetops against a clear, vivid blue skyline with a strip of fluffy white clouds dotted above the trees
October 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I miss REAL journalists
80s UK kid’s TV series Press Gang starring Dexter Fletcher and Julia Sawalha amongst others…
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent
#blackandwhitephotography
#photography

Staircase, Dalkeith Palace
Interior shot looking down the tartan-carpeted main stairs in Dalkeith Palace and out the giant multi-panelled glass windows, a huge lamp hangs in the stairwell enclosed a glass case, a large canvas oil painting hangs on the wall and the top of a statue of the Duke of Wellington can be seen at the bottom.
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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#WeekOForOpulent #Photography 📷#BlackAndWhitePhotography
#AlphabetChallenge
B&W shot of saki in elaborate saki glasses, wooden and metal tipped chopsticks, the light reflecting on the stainless steel table of restaurant
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Edinburgh Castle in the mist

#photography #edinburgh #StormAmy
A misty Edinburgh Castle seen as a silhouette through the autumn treetops with yellowy hazy clouds and washed out pale blue sky
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekLforLines
#Photography
Black-and-white photo of the cobbles of a street with the dark silhouette of railings falling onto them
September 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#WindowsOnWednesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines
Photograph looking up at an elaborate curved frontage of a tower of a sandstone Victorian building with the lines in the bricks, bars across the sash windows and blue sky and white clouds above
September 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#coffeewalk
Photo of lavender in the autumn sunshine with trees and brick building and bright blue sky with white clouds above Shot of a grey brick wall with the word ‘potato’ written on one brick in quite small letters
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM