I am delighted to announce I have been selected as the SNP candidate for Dumbarton. Thank you to the members who have put their trust in me. Now let's win this seat!

I’m unaware of anyone else putting their name forward, but there are still a couple of weeks to go before the nominations close. If there is a contest, I’d ask all SNP members in Helensburgh & Dumbarton to choose me as our candidate to win this seat for the SNP. #DoTheMath

Was honoured to be invited to a civic reception this evening at Tucson City Hall with city councilperson Nikki Lee.

Visiting America and in a Walmart we found “Scottish” cookies (staff member thought we’d like to see a “taste of home”)

Do we protest to the UN?

I was sent this video; helensburgh’s swimming pool roof is off. Please avoid the area. Police/emergency responders are aware and in-site.

(Apologies for the language in the video, I didn’t take it!) #stormeowyn Storm Éowyn

Time for an old fashioned (yes, I found cocktail cherries!)

Blessed Solstice to all my pagan friends & constituents.
The light shall return.

This time of year it’s very apparent just how far north we live, but still, seeing the sun rise at 9am as you’re taking kids to school never gets old.

Or warm, apparently. #cauld #baltic #colderthanawitchesti…

Listening to our party leader, first minister @johnswinney.bsky.social speak at our national council @thesnp.bsky.social

Just saw that you’re on here and wanted to say from a nerdy politician halfway around the world thank you for all that you do.

I’m building a smart pocket watch & casting the case in silver (so I can get notifications but still look smart in my suit) & my 7 yo daughter asked what I was doing (cont)

Living in a wee village has many benefits, but as with everything in life, there are trade-offs.
One is that the nearest kebab shop is a half hour drive away, by which time your food is cold & soggy.

However, why buy when you can make your own?

Quote post with a picture of yourself and show these newbies who they’re dealing with.

No idea if this is genuine, but if it’s not it will be soon. Companies will be stockpiling now before any tariffs come in. The leopards-are-my-face voters in the American rust belt who voted for this pish are in for a rough ride.

Genuine thought “why have you got pics of my daughter” till I looked closely lol.

(Can’t find ones from behind but here one recently!)

Finally got the code running on my smart pocket watch - I upgraded to a newer Esp32-S3 board (bigger screen, in-built speakers, real time clock etc) not realising all my code needed redone, but it’s up and running now.

Now to add some features, get the clock face bigger…

Sigh. Been trying for hours now to get this smartwatch I’m building to register for iOS notifications. Fix the UI, the Bluetooth stack crashes. Fix the BLE, the connections drop, fix that the UI breaks…

Can’t put it on the bird site cos he follows me there but my brother is 50 this year, and finally got himself commissioned in RAF air cadets as an officer so decided to make him a set of these in solid gold.
Cheap tin ones top, my work-in-progress gold ones bottom.

Cast a piece of silver jewellery today.
Its a triangular pendant for my partner, with my name, her name and our daughter’s name on the edges in celtic ogham runes…
Just out of the cast, so a lot to do still.