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Books, art, maths, knitting, embroidery, gardening, cats, hens, Early Medleval history, the Western Isles, good food, sea swimming, shells, birds & wildlife.
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Sgòthan air an loch ann an ciaradh na h-oidhche.
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I’ve finished the book #Benbecula. Incredibly atmospheric. There was one moment when I thought the language was anachronistic but otherwise I was totally immersed in this dark tale and the world of the narrator. The #book goes back to the #library on Monday. #uist
The cover of the book Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet.
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#afternoon #uist
The driveway stretches to the west under pale blue, silver, and yellow skies.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Lazy #Caturday 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
Blossom, a dark tortoiseshell kitten with ginger toes, lies along the back of the pale leather chesterfield. Blossom is making eyes at me! The panther, an enormous black cat, lies on me and makes blinky eyes. The panther has the most magnificent whiskers.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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lakesstiles.bsky.social
Backatcha from the mainland.
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The rain has blown away, at least for now, and every pond, puddle, and loch is like a mirror. #uist
The sun shines gold through a mottled sky of grey, cream and blue. The glassy water shines back. Blue sky and sweeping clouds over water and salt marsh. The view from my favourite Co-op car park.
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Damn, these islands are beautiful! 🤩 #uist
Looking across sea loch and marshes under dark grey cloud. In the distance, a scarf of mist draped around the hills, brightly lit by the sun. Close up of the beautiful hills draped in shining cloud, reflecting in the water.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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26 lengths and not as cold as predicted. Scared most folks away - just 3 men and me. #uist 🏊‍♀️
An empty blue tiled swimming pool.
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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A fine morning #uist I’m off to the swimming pool 🏊‍♀️ - the centre says it’s below usual temperature and has cancelled children’s swimming lessons so I’m expecting 🥶🥶🥶
Looking across the lochan to a blue sky over blue clouds edged with gold. Through the kitchen window, with the odd raindrop, west along the driveway where deep water in the ruts reflects the blue, grey and pink sky.
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Just love those smooshy waves. [Looks better bigger!]

Reynisfjara #Iceland, Nov 2025
Slightly longer exposure of breaking waves on a beach at sunset, There is a slight bit of colour at the bottom and in the sky behind the waves.
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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If you're a Pictish Arts Society member, don't miss tonight's online lecture from Professor Jane Geddes. If you're not a member but this sounds like your sort of thing, there's still time to join! Go here for more details: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/lectures-202...
pictishartssociety.bsky.social The Pictish Arts Society @pictishartssociety.bsky.social · 23d
The next lecture in our 2025-2026 season is coming up on Friday 21 Nov! Professor Jane Geddes will present her research on the lost libraries of Pictland. (Lectures are for PAS members only - find out about the many benefits of PAS membership here: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us.)
Flyer for the Pictish Arts Society lecture on Friday 21 November at 7.30pm via Zoom. Professor Jane Geddes will present a lecture entitled 'The lost libraries of Pictland'. The lecture abstract reads: 'Picts produced some of Europe’s finest sculpture between the fifth and ninth centuries and yet no contemporary manuscripts survive from Pictland. This talk reconstructs evidence for the lost libraries of Pictland whose images and ideas informed the sculpture. Behind the vivid imagery on cross slabs lie sources from a cosmopolitan visual world of manuscript illuminations. Picts both invented their own art form, their enigmatic ‘symbols’, and were inspired by Christian liturgical manuscripts from abroad. Influences went both ways whereby the distinctive features of Pictish animal art were adapted to become Evangelist symbols in Insular manuscripts elsewhere, while Pictish sculptors scoured incoming church documents for an expanded artistic repertoire of abstract pattern, monsters and holy men. Even without illustrations, it is possible to deduce which literary sources Pictish artists were aware of.' There is an illustration of the prophet Ezra in his scriptorium from folio 5r of the Codex Amiatinus.
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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It’s grim outside. I have been saved from an emergency shopping run by a humongous delivery of cat food. #uist
A black kitten and a dark tortoiseshell kitten lie in front of a window. Outside, all is grey and rain spatters the glass.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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alisonm.bsky.social
Reminds me of one of my favourite James Thurber cartoons from The Pet Department (an agony column for pet-related problems)
A cartoon of a fireplace and a grandfather clock with several cats wandering about. Underneath the text reads: Q: We have cats the way most people have mice. A: I see you have. I can't tell from your communication, however, whether you wish advice or are just boasting.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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On my stairs. 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈
Stairs with pine bannisters. A black and white cat and a black cat sit on separate steps looking upwards. There are 3slit window behind the stairs. A huge black cat sits in the middle one. A tabby cat sits in the right one.
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Oodles of kittens. 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
A dark tortoiseshell kitten sits on the back of a leather chesterfield and plays with a toy A black kitten has joined us on the sofa and both play with the pink feather fishing rod. And we’re joined by a young black cat. Intense play ensues. There is an element of lying down cleaning themselves now.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Post-breakfast playtime 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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It’s a dark, wet, windy day so #Boo #kitten wants cream for breakfast. #uist 😻🐈‍⬛
Grey clouds, grey water, wet grass. A wee black kitten sits on a stool and gazes at me with huge green eyes.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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pictishartssociety.bsky.social
The next lecture in our 2025-2026 season is coming up on Friday 21 Nov! Professor Jane Geddes will present her research on the lost libraries of Pictland. (Lectures are for PAS members only - find out about the many benefits of PAS membership here: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/join-us.)
Flyer for the Pictish Arts Society lecture on Friday 21 November at 7.30pm via Zoom. Professor Jane Geddes will present a lecture entitled 'The lost libraries of Pictland'. The lecture abstract reads: 'Picts produced some of Europe’s finest sculpture between the fifth and ninth centuries and yet no contemporary manuscripts survive from Pictland. This talk reconstructs evidence for the lost libraries of Pictland whose images and ideas informed the sculpture. Behind the vivid imagery on cross slabs lie sources from a cosmopolitan visual world of manuscript illuminations. Picts both invented their own art form, their enigmatic ‘symbols’, and were inspired by Christian liturgical manuscripts from abroad. Influences went both ways whereby the distinctive features of Pictish animal art were adapted to become Evangelist symbols in Insular manuscripts elsewhere, while Pictish sculptors scoured incoming church documents for an expanded artistic repertoire of abstract pattern, monsters and holy men. Even without illustrations, it is possible to deduce which literary sources Pictish artists were aware of.' There is an illustration of the prophet Ezra in his scriptorium from folio 5r of the Codex Amiatinus.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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kashwitna.bsky.social
This was my first time in 31 years living in Alaska that I saw red in the aurora.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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midgie.bsky.social
the air is cold like glass and it’s making the stars look closer to the earth
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#aurora #uist
The telephone poles are silhouetted against the green and red aurora The stars are bright behind the Aurora
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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#aurora #uist and it’s red not pink!
Red and green light partially covered by clouds Fiery red and bright green bands of light The plough is at a wild angle and the green aurora is split by scarlet
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM