Heasydragon.
@heasydragon.bsky.social
Scottish. Gay. Grumpy. Catdad.
Pshaw. I see your weak-arse vegan and raise you this monster.
January 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Pshaw. I see your weak-arse vegan and raise you this monster.
I had to look up the disposable razors thing! Whee!
January 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I had to look up the disposable razors thing! Whee!
Oh, so you want some #RabbieBurns for #BurnsNight, do you? Get. It. Up. You. (And you think #Scotland is all Gashlander and fat Yankistanis wielding imitation swords, LOL)
January 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Oh, so you want some #RabbieBurns for #BurnsNight, do you? Get. It. Up. You. (And you think #Scotland is all Gashlander and fat Yankistanis wielding imitation swords, LOL)
This is the (now withdrawn, sadly) £50 Clydesdale note. The reverse image is that of the Antonine Wall.
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is the (now withdrawn, sadly) £50 Clydesdale note. The reverse image is that of the Antonine Wall.
So that's four. What about the fifth? Well...she's someone special. It's not from Royal Bank of Scotland - it's issued from Bank of Scotland and is currently the largest denomination they issue - the £100. On the obverse is Sir Walter Scott, but on the reverse? Dr Flora Murray OBE.
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
So that's four. What about the fifth? Well...she's someone special. It's not from Royal Bank of Scotland - it's issued from Bank of Scotland and is currently the largest denomination they issue - the £100. On the obverse is Sir Walter Scott, but on the reverse? Dr Flora Murray OBE.
Last from RBS, the £50 note, which features Scottish education campaigner and reformer Flora Stevenson. She helped ingrain the idea that boys *and* girls should be educated irregardless of their socio-economic background. Again - another personal hero of mine. She's followed by two osprey, btw.
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Last from RBS, the £50 note, which features Scottish education campaigner and reformer Flora Stevenson. She helped ingrain the idea that boys *and* girls should be educated irregardless of their socio-economic background. Again - another personal hero of mine. She's followed by two osprey, btw.
The RBS £20 is one of my personal heroes: Kate Cranston. She was a pioneering businesswoman in Scotland who helped create the concept of tea-rooms as a female safe-space at a time when such spaces just did not exist. And what's that? SQUIRRELS!!!!!
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The RBS £20 is one of my personal heroes: Kate Cranston. She was a pioneering businesswoman in Scotland who helped create the concept of tea-rooms as a female safe-space at a time when such spaces just did not exist. And what's that? SQUIRRELS!!!!!
The RBS £10 is Mary Somerville (1780-1872). She was an astronomer and a scientist. She, along with Caroline Herschel, were the first female hononary members of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oh, and she's got OTTERS! on the other side. MOTHERFRAKKING OTTERS!!!!!
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The RBS £10 is Mary Somerville (1780-1872). She was an astronomer and a scientist. She, along with Caroline Herschel, were the first female hononary members of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oh, and she's got OTTERS! on the other side. MOTHERFRAKKING OTTERS!!!!!
The RBS £5 features author and poet Nan Shepherd on the obverse and mackerel on the reverse. Yes, it's very blue. You should see it under UV.
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The RBS £5 features author and poet Nan Shepherd on the obverse and mackerel on the reverse. Yes, it's very blue. You should see it under UV.
One of the more curious features of the railway line the Gartsherrie Inn sat on was that the railway used square sleepers, as opposed to the rectangular ones we see nowadays. When they were pulled and replaced, a fair number of them survived (they were good stone, after all!)
January 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
One of the more curious features of the railway line the Gartsherrie Inn sat on was that the railway used square sleepers, as opposed to the rectangular ones we see nowadays. When they were pulled and replaced, a fair number of them survived (they were good stone, after all!)
So here's a lesser-known fact about #Scotland for railway-types. The world's first railway catering establishment was opened in Gartsherrie, just to the north of Coatbridge sometime in the 1820s-30s. The building's no more - it was flattened in the 1960s.
January 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So here's a lesser-known fact about #Scotland for railway-types. The world's first railway catering establishment was opened in Gartsherrie, just to the north of Coatbridge sometime in the 1820s-30s. The building's no more - it was flattened in the 1960s.
Fish and rice for tea!
January 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fish and rice for tea!
"'Mon then..."
(Me, in the morning, before my third coffee)
(Me, in the morning, before my third coffee)
January 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"'Mon then..."
(Me, in the morning, before my third coffee)
(Me, in the morning, before my third coffee)
You, my good sir, need Kallax...
January 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
You, my good sir, need Kallax...
(Of course, Howard Street is the location of one of my all-time favourite #Glasgow pictures - favourite because *it cannot be replicated*)
(I've got a non-watermarked copy from Glasgow City Council and it's my favourite picture. Mostly because it was taken in the year my mother was born: 1955)
(I've got a non-watermarked copy from Glasgow City Council and it's my favourite picture. Mostly because it was taken in the year my mother was born: 1955)
January 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
(Of course, Howard Street is the location of one of my all-time favourite #Glasgow pictures - favourite because *it cannot be replicated*)
(I've got a non-watermarked copy from Glasgow City Council and it's my favourite picture. Mostly because it was taken in the year my mother was born: 1955)
(I've got a non-watermarked copy from Glasgow City Council and it's my favourite picture. Mostly because it was taken in the year my mother was born: 1955)
And the Mitchell has this...
January 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
And the Mitchell has this...
Now...this is interesting. There's a record of this on Canmore but the ghost-signs were probably revealed after *some* cleaning was done a few decades back...
January 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Now...this is interesting. There's a record of this on Canmore but the ghost-signs were probably revealed after *some* cleaning was done a few decades back...
So, does the new Govan-Partick Bridge have a Weegie nickname yet? I'm all in favour of calling it "The Stabby Bridge" or something middle-class-worrying...
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
January 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So, does the new Govan-Partick Bridge have a Weegie nickname yet? I'm all in favour of calling it "The Stabby Bridge" or something middle-class-worrying...
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
Your reminder that Beverley Crusher got frisky with a haunted sex-candle that used to belong to her grandmother. Uh huh. Family heirloom dildos, hmm?
January 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Your reminder that Beverley Crusher got frisky with a haunted sex-candle that used to belong to her grandmother. Uh huh. Family heirloom dildos, hmm?
Yes, I'm peckish, lol...
January 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Yes, I'm peckish, lol...
Another street in central #Glasgow wiped from the map. This was apparently Wemyss Street - long-destroyed thanks to 1960s "improvements". My Granny sometimes mentions this street and the area around it - full of shops, places to go and do things. All wiped out. It's apparently a car park now.
January 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Another street in central #Glasgow wiped from the map. This was apparently Wemyss Street - long-destroyed thanks to 1960s "improvements". My Granny sometimes mentions this street and the area around it - full of shops, places to go and do things. All wiped out. It's apparently a car park now.
This is pretty much the only thing I have to go on, the old Glasgow OS map from 1892-94. Thing is - there's *another* depot a few hundred metres (now long-gone thanks to wanky "improvements")
January 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This is pretty much the only thing I have to go on, the old Glasgow OS map from 1892-94. Thing is - there's *another* depot a few hundred metres (now long-gone thanks to wanky "improvements")
Here's a conundrum. I'm fairly convinced that this is the old Cambridge Street tram/bus depot but I'm not sure. Wonder if @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social would know. Bloody #Glasgow City Council not making it easy...grr.
January 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Here's a conundrum. I'm fairly convinced that this is the old Cambridge Street tram/bus depot but I'm not sure. Wonder if @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social would know. Bloody #Glasgow City Council not making it easy...grr.
Time for me to scamper off to bed (and annoy the boyfriend by demanding that he surrender 3/4s of the duvet) but first: the old-old Queen Street station entrance on Dundas Street in #Glasgow in 1968, before the first "modernisation".
January 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Time for me to scamper off to bed (and annoy the boyfriend by demanding that he surrender 3/4s of the duvet) but first: the old-old Queen Street station entrance on Dundas Street in #Glasgow in 1968, before the first "modernisation".