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Sarah Duce
@sarahduce.bsky.social
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Hearach, pedant, living just off the C79.
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Good Day!
Castlebay, Barra, (Barraigh) by Douglas Percy Bliss 1933
Oil on Canvas
(Currently for sale with Liss Llewellyn)
June 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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What else is there to do with a small nephling than watch him climb tree stumps and recreate paintings of St Sebastian.
March 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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johnmaherphoto.bsky.social
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**Last minute exhibition news**
Starting this Tuesday (March 11th), a selection of my photos from Buzzcocks's first trips to the USA in 1979 and 1980 will be on display in Glasgow at Trongate 103.

More info: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/a-teen...
March 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Curly quartz with dog for scale.
White quartz curved around lichen covered rock Bands of quartz and ribbons of bedrock White quartz and shaggy black dog
March 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Rummaging around, I found this. George Bernard Shaw correcting the editor.
February 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Seilebost School, March 2010.
Number of pupils: 6.
Closed 2013.
February 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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asls.org.uk
“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social
#MotherLanguageDay
theconversation.com/how-scottish...
How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.
theconversation.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Crogans cave, Lingerbay.
February 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Is anyone else watching the White House press conference??? Just wild, four years of this to come.
January 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Absolutely dreadful pictures through salty window with my old phone but can anyone identify this bird of prey? It had a beautiful striped fan tail with a noticeable pale patch on the top of it. #isleofharris #bird
January 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Ruins of old Croft Houses on the east coast of Harris, Western Isles of Scotland. An old film shot from my archive, Pentax 6x7 camera
#landscapes #scotland #photography #black&white #harris #monochrome #highlands
January 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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And if I may www.nigella.com/recipes/coff...
January 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A plod up the track, lots of rabbit tracks so doggo was happy.
January 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Nick the chick🐔
Lavender hen in foreground being watched intently by a gsp
January 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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📺 1,000 views! The AMAZING story of the discovery that some Western Isles crannogs - artificial islets built in lochs - are #Neolithic.

Watch my interview with Prof. Duncan Garrow for this @digitscotland.bsky.social Shindig Special.

youtu.be/DdknM0MSFw4?...
Neolithic Crannogs in the Western Isles of Scotland – With Prof. Duncan Garrow
YouTube video by Red River Archaeology Group
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January 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Admittedly, such a price won't even make me enough money for a sachet of ketchup, but Food of the Cods is now under £4 on Amazon if you fancy reading a happy little book about chippies, travel and social history:
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Food of the Cods: The story of Britain’s fish and chips obsession
Buy Food of the Cods: The story of Britain’s fish and chips obsession by Gray, Daniel (ISBN: 9780008628888) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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December 31, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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A throw back to earlier this year when we got quite a big dump of snow by Harris standards. #TerrierTuesday
A bedlington and a westie x terrier both enjoying the snow, snow balls collecting on their fur A bedlington and westie x in the snow, ears flapping
December 31, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Super trawler taking shelter. Got a very iffy history, kicked out of Australian waters and accused of dumping bycatch in Irish waters. Hoover of the sea.
December 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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johnmaherphoto.bsky.social
Snowman
Bays of Harris
December 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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asls.org.uk
A mermaid sighted, & sadly killed, near Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, c1820–30
—CARMINA GADELICA (1928)

A field reconnaissance of “The Mermaid’s Grave” was made in 1994 “at the request of the Keeper of Mollusca at the National Museum of Scotland”
#WyrdWednesday
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Some seventy years ago, people were cutting seaweed at Sgeir na duchadh, Grimnis, Benbecula. Before putting on her stockings, one of the women went to the lower end of the reef to wash her feet. While doing so she heard a splash in the calm sea, and looking up she saw a creature in the form of a woman in miniature, some few feet away. Alarmed, the woman called to her friends, and all the people present rushed to the place. The creature made somersaults and turned about in various directions. Some men waded into the water to seize her, but she moved beyond their reach. Some boys threw stones at her, one of which struck her in the back. A few days afterwards, this strange creature was found dead at Cuile, Nunton, nearly two miles away. The upper portion of the creature was about the size of a well-fed child of three or four years of age, with an abnormally developed breast. The hair was long, dark, and glossy, while the skin was white, soft, and tender. The lower part of the body was like a salmon, but without scales. Crowds of people, some from long distances, came to see this strange animal, and all were unanimous in the opinion that they had gazed on the mermaid at last. Mr Duncan Shaw, factor for Clanranald, baron-bailie and sheriff of the district, ordered a coffin and shroud to be made for the mermaid. This was done, and the body was buried in the presence of many people, a short distance above the shore where it was found. There are persons still living who saw and touched this curious creature, and who give graphic descriptions of its appearance. Screenshot from the CANMORE website of Historic Environment Scotland. It shows a section of an Ordnance Survey map of Culla Bay on the west coast of Benbecula. The text reads Stone (Period Unassigned) Site Name Benbecula, Nunton, 'the Mermaid's Grave' Classification Stone (Period Unassigned) Canmore ID 92172 Site Number NF75SE 22 NGR NF 76098 53436 Datum OSGB36 - NGR Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/92172
December 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Bobbin has finally gone to the Dreamies dispensary in the sky. Last of the Harris cats, he was born and died in this house with a good few years of Black Isle adventures in between. 19 years old, I shall miss him. Good boy Bob.
December 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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Christmas Post.
Borve, Isle of Harris.
December 16, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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The candles are lit #SantaLucia
December 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Beautiful light, the phone doesn’t do it justice.
View over the hills of south Harris, with a setting sun and uplit clouds.
December 13, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Today’s poem is called ‘A Traditional Family Christmas’.
A Traditional Family Christmas   It wasn’t until that first Christmas with your family that I realised how we all do it differently, how every family forges its own traditions, as bright and distinct as any giant, shining star.   The way you laid out coal sacks instead of stockings; the recital of a limerick before the opening of each present, Christopher Lee’s heavy metal Christmas album playing quietly in the background; the pre-breakfast snorkel;   the Dance of the Seven Baubles; the festive epaulettes; lunch with its ptarmigan fritters in milk sauce, the suet potatoes, and the sweet and sour popcorn; the replenishing of glasses with red turkey wine;   sprout-rolling in the park; the posting of a tinsel stick through Mr Jennings’ letterbox; and back for an evening of TV (some classic episodes of Panorama) and games (Hoist the Pickle, No Elbows Please!, Speculum) then bed.   The following year you came to my family for Christmas. You said later that it was weird. Brian Bilston
December 13, 2024 at 10:07 AM