Shelfdog
@shelfdog.bsky.social
Dilettante poet and flaneur. Scots leid troker.
#scots #poetry @lenniesaurus.bsky.social
Poet Willie Hershaw's re-imagining of the Tao Te Ching in the Scots language looks very interesting
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/22/a...
Poet Willie Hershaw's re-imagining of the Tao Te Ching in the Scots language looks very interesting
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/22/a...
Airtins: Socialism, Scots and the Tao Te Ching
Airtins (meaning “directions”) is a reimagining in the Scots language of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, using the vivid, demotic cadences of Scots to express a vision of practical, green, and spiritual so…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#scots #poetry @lenniesaurus.bsky.social
Poet Willie Hershaw's re-imagining of the Tao Te Ching in the Scots language looks very interesting
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/22/a...
Poet Willie Hershaw's re-imagining of the Tao Te Ching in the Scots language looks very interesting
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/22/a...
#theguardian @theguardian.com
WTF is #BarneyRonay on? The back page of today's sports section re Wirtz is bizarre, as well as being utterly pretentious and self-indulgent. Is it an attempt to emulate Marina Hyde? A massive failure, whatever he was attempting.
WTF is #BarneyRonay on? The back page of today's sports section re Wirtz is bizarre, as well as being utterly pretentious and self-indulgent. Is it an attempt to emulate Marina Hyde? A massive failure, whatever he was attempting.
October 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#theguardian @theguardian.com
WTF is #BarneyRonay on? The back page of today's sports section re Wirtz is bizarre, as well as being utterly pretentious and self-indulgent. Is it an attempt to emulate Marina Hyde? A massive failure, whatever he was attempting.
WTF is #BarneyRonay on? The back page of today's sports section re Wirtz is bizarre, as well as being utterly pretentious and self-indulgent. Is it an attempt to emulate Marina Hyde? A massive failure, whatever he was attempting.
#fridayfun #thewholeofthemoon
Let's help out #mikescott with some alternative lyrics
You were all patterened in blue and red
I was maroon ...
I drove a tractor and went phut phut
You travelled in style and went vroom! vroom! ...
Let's help out #mikescott with some alternative lyrics
You were all patterened in blue and red
I was maroon ...
I drove a tractor and went phut phut
You travelled in style and went vroom! vroom! ...
May 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#fridayfun #thewholeofthemoon
Let's help out #mikescott with some alternative lyrics
You were all patterened in blue and red
I was maroon ...
I drove a tractor and went phut phut
You travelled in style and went vroom! vroom! ...
Let's help out #mikescott with some alternative lyrics
You were all patterened in blue and red
I was maroon ...
I drove a tractor and went phut phut
You travelled in style and went vroom! vroom! ...
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
I got #TheProofofMyInnocence as a birthday present. I read it in one day; it's very clever and extremely entertaining. I read 'Fiery Elephant' when it came out, so I got the B.S.Johnson references about auto-fiction. Well done sir, excellent work!
I got #TheProofofMyInnocence as a birthday present. I read it in one day; it's very clever and extremely entertaining. I read 'Fiery Elephant' when it came out, so I got the B.S.Johnson references about auto-fiction. Well done sir, excellent work!
April 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
I got #TheProofofMyInnocence as a birthday present. I read it in one day; it's very clever and extremely entertaining. I read 'Fiery Elephant' when it came out, so I got the B.S.Johnson references about auto-fiction. Well done sir, excellent work!
I got #TheProofofMyInnocence as a birthday present. I read it in one day; it's very clever and extremely entertaining. I read 'Fiery Elephant' when it came out, so I got the B.S.Johnson references about auto-fiction. Well done sir, excellent work!
#WHSmith Just before the deal was signed they were offered the chance to buy a giant Toblerone.
WH Smith brand to disappear from high street as £76m sale of stores to Modella agreed
WH Smith brand to disappear from high street as £76m sale of stores to Modella agreed
Under terms of deal with Hobbycraft owner, 233-year-old brand will become TGJones
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#WHSmith Just before the deal was signed they were offered the chance to buy a giant Toblerone.
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Shelfdog
I maintain that social media posts are a conversation, not an English exam. Correcting someone’s grammar or spelling is like picking up on a speaker every time they stumble over a word.
December 19, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I maintain that social media posts are a conversation, not an English exam. Correcting someone’s grammar or spelling is like picking up on a speaker every time they stumble over a word.
Reposted by Shelfdog
Beloved readers and writers of all things, I present a tv show all about reading and writing. Guests Inc Elif Shafak, Jackie Kay, @colsonwhitehead.com @naomialderman.bsky.social & shelves more. It’s on BBC. It’s called the Big Scottish Book Club. Enjoy! 📖 📺 ❤️
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club
Damian Barr interviews some of the biggest names in fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Beloved readers and writers of all things, I present a tv show all about reading and writing. Guests Inc Elif Shafak, Jackie Kay, @colsonwhitehead.com @naomialderman.bsky.social & shelves more. It’s on BBC. It’s called the Big Scottish Book Club. Enjoy! 📖 📺 ❤️
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#bbclaurak
Joke panel, with Nadine Dorries and Piers Morgan 🙄
Joke panel, with Nadine Dorries and Piers Morgan 🙄
November 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
#bbclaurak
Joke panel, with Nadine Dorries and Piers Morgan 🙄
Joke panel, with Nadine Dorries and Piers Morgan 🙄
Scottish Poetry Library event
November 19, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Scottish Poetry Library event
November 15, 2024 at 9:38 AM
I occasionally look in here, but it doesn't seem to have reached critical mass. Not as toxic as the other place, but all a bit dead.
October 16, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I occasionally look in here, but it doesn't seem to have reached critical mass. Not as toxic as the other place, but all a bit dead.
A wee poem.
STORMCHASER
'Hou dae ye dae it?' I hear them speirin.
'Yer ayeweys thair, in the ee o the storm,
at the hairt o the raivel, whit's yer slicht?
Some sort o airtin graith thit keeps ye richt?'
Ye hae me wrang, I niver luik for dree;
I juist wait an the storms aa come tae me.
September 25, 2024 at 7:14 AM
A wee poem.
STORMCHASER
'Hou dae ye dae it?' I hear them speirin.
'Yer ayeweys thair, in the ee o the storm,
at the hairt o the raivel, whit's yer slicht?
Some sort o airtin graith thit keeps ye richt?'
Ye hae me wrang, I niver luik for dree;
I juist wait an the storms aa come tae me.
#USpolitics #davycrockett
This looks interesting: a musical about congressman Davy Crockett.
Who remembers the TV prog. , with it's theme song about the 'king of the wild frontier'?
www.richardbyrneplays.com/congressman-...
This looks interesting: a musical about congressman Davy Crockett.
Who remembers the TV prog. , with it's theme song about the 'king of the wild frontier'?
www.richardbyrneplays.com/congressman-...
February 11, 2024 at 2:57 PM
#USpolitics #davycrockett
This looks interesting: a musical about congressman Davy Crockett.
Who remembers the TV prog. , with it's theme song about the 'king of the wild frontier'?
www.richardbyrneplays.com/congressman-...
This looks interesting: a musical about congressman Davy Crockett.
Who remembers the TV prog. , with it's theme song about the 'king of the wild frontier'?
www.richardbyrneplays.com/congressman-...
Maybe this place will lively up a bit now it is no longer invite only.
February 6, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Maybe this place will lively up a bit now it is no longer invite only.
#burnsnight #burns #chinesenewyear
Combine Chinese New Year and Burns' Night celebrations by giving everyone Chinese Burns
January 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
#burnsnight #burns #chinesenewyear
Combine Chinese New Year and Burns' Night celebrations by giving everyone Chinese Burns
#BurnsNight #Poetry
MACSWEEN
Macsween, ye hae a sonsie face
Great chieftan o the puddin race
In Waitrose, sittin proud an brave
Five hunner gram
Ten meenits in the microwave
Keuked braw and warm
MACSWEEN
Macsween, ye hae a sonsie face
Great chieftan o the puddin race
In Waitrose, sittin proud an brave
Five hunner gram
Ten meenits in the microwave
Keuked braw and warm
January 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
#BurnsNight #Poetry
MACSWEEN
Macsween, ye hae a sonsie face
Great chieftan o the puddin race
In Waitrose, sittin proud an brave
Five hunner gram
Ten meenits in the microwave
Keuked braw and warm
MACSWEEN
Macsween, ye hae a sonsie face
Great chieftan o the puddin race
In Waitrose, sittin proud an brave
Five hunner gram
Ten meenits in the microwave
Keuked braw and warm
#scots #poetry #leid
As big as me, he luiked richt braw
wi coal for een an mirran neb
I gied him life, I cried him Boab
A couthie pal, bigged oot o snaw
Ma grandad's bunnet oan his heid
A muffler tae, happed roun his neck
He didnae move, he didnae speak
fur snawfowk dinnae hae a leid
As big as me, he luiked richt braw
wi coal for een an mirran neb
I gied him life, I cried him Boab
A couthie pal, bigged oot o snaw
Ma grandad's bunnet oan his heid
A muffler tae, happed roun his neck
He didnae move, he didnae speak
fur snawfowk dinnae hae a leid
December 14, 2023 at 1:47 PM
FIFTEEN Tory MPs arrive for ‘rebel breakfast’ with Sunak
What a bunch this lot are. How any of them became MPs is an indictment of a damagedTory party and frailties of our political system.
What a bunch this lot are. How any of them became MPs is an indictment of a damagedTory party and frailties of our political system.
FIFTEEN Tory MPs arrive for 'rebel breakfast' with Sunak
Lee Anderson, Danny Kruger and Jonathan Gullis were among them. Soon to be knighted, no doubt, by a flailing Rishi Sunak.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 12, 2023 at 8:43 AM
New Scots Language project from respected Fife poet/playwright/novelist/songwriter/performer/language activist Willie Hershaw. Mebbe interesting for you @damianbarr.bsky.social
youtu.be/23YYajAFNHQ?...
youtu.be/23YYajAFNHQ?...
LEID - WILLIAM HERSHAW & THE LEID
The title track from the new album being released on Saturday 20th January by William Hershaw & The Leid on Folksville Records. The album features William He...
youtu.be
December 11, 2023 at 12:18 AM
New Scots Language project from respected Fife poet/playwright/novelist/songwriter/performer/language activist Willie Hershaw. Mebbe interesting for you @damianbarr.bsky.social
youtu.be/23YYajAFNHQ?...
youtu.be/23YYajAFNHQ?...