Liddy Laird
@tutliddy.bsky.social
Founding trustee of The Uphill Trust. Retired GDP. Brownie leader.
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🎁 Shop closing on Friday! 🎁 I am such a generous soul I am willing to go out in the storm* weather just to send you comics for Christmas.
*mild wind and rain that might blow my hat off
*mild wind and rain that might blow my hat off
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🎁 Shop closing on Friday! 🎁 I am such a generous soul I am willing to go out in the storm* weather just to send you comics for Christmas.
*mild wind and rain that might blow my hat off
*mild wind and rain that might blow my hat off
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Bumble reigns victorious at this years Thought Bubble popularity poll that took place on my table! Fat Rascal got a few too many votes for my liking...
If you'd like to read their story A Duel of Fools 1+2 are available now from my shop and I am shipping comics to the EU!
🦉 owlroostart.etsy.com
If you'd like to read their story A Duel of Fools 1+2 are available now from my shop and I am shipping comics to the EU!
🦉 owlroostart.etsy.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Bumble reigns victorious at this years Thought Bubble popularity poll that took place on my table! Fat Rascal got a few too many votes for my liking...
If you'd like to read their story A Duel of Fools 1+2 are available now from my shop and I am shipping comics to the EU!
🦉 owlroostart.etsy.com
If you'd like to read their story A Duel of Fools 1+2 are available now from my shop and I am shipping comics to the EU!
🦉 owlroostart.etsy.com
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Dundonians, please fill in the city council budget survey and save our creative institutions from yet more cuts. If you love the DCA, Dundee Rep, etc. it's in your best interest to help them keep their funding and remain open by filling this in.
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/consultation...
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/consultation...
Dundee City Council 2026-27 Budget Consultation | Dundee City Council
The Dundee City Council budget consultation for 2026-27 is now live.Members of the public are invited to have their say on the local authority’s spending priorities and the level of Council Tax for th...
www.dundeecity.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dundonians, please fill in the city council budget survey and save our creative institutions from yet more cuts. If you love the DCA, Dundee Rep, etc. it's in your best interest to help them keep their funding and remain open by filling this in.
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/consultation...
www.dundeecity.gov.uk/consultation...
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Tomorrow!! Come get educated through the wonders of comics. ✏️📖
💬 PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join @tsundernova.bsky.social and @juliecampbelldraws.bsky.social as they talk comics, education, and community.
🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks
🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Tomorrow!! Come get educated through the wonders of comics. ✏️📖
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Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’
Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’ - National | Globalnews.ca
An update to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine that targets the newest variants and is made entirely within Canada's borders was just approved by Health Canada.
globalnews.ca
August 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’
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A deadly tropical disease known as sleeping sickness has been eliminated from Kenya in a significant public health triumph.
Uganda, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, & Togo have also eliminated sleeping sickness.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...
Uganda, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, & Togo have also eliminated sleeping sickness.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...
WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering
Sleeping sickness is often fatal of untreated and in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, 40,000 cases were being diagnosed in a year
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A deadly tropical disease known as sleeping sickness has been eliminated from Kenya in a significant public health triumph.
Uganda, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, & Togo have also eliminated sleeping sickness.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...
Uganda, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, & Togo have also eliminated sleeping sickness.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...
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Con dos inyecciones al año, la persona queda protegida del VIH.
Sale sin patentes y con seis genéricos.
Una de las mejores noticas de los últimos 40 años.
Celebremos, amores ♥️🥳😍
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
Sale sin patentes y con seis genéricos.
Una de las mejores noticas de los últimos 40 años.
Celebremos, amores ♥️🥳😍
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
August 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Con dos inyecciones al año, la persona queda protegida del VIH.
Sale sin patentes y con seis genéricos.
Una de las mejores noticas de los últimos 40 años.
Celebremos, amores ♥️🥳😍
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
Sale sin patentes y con seis genéricos.
Una de las mejores noticas de los últimos 40 años.
Celebremos, amores ♥️🥳😍
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
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Just under 30 hours left with just over £1k to go!!
Thank you everyone who has already supported the campaign so far 💖 please consider backing it if you haven’t already, or share the project with anyone who might be interested in reading any of the comics in this collection 🙏💕 (incl. mine!!)
Thank you everyone who has already supported the campaign so far 💖 please consider backing it if you haven’t already, or share the project with anyone who might be interested in reading any of the comics in this collection 🙏💕 (incl. mine!!)
Only TWO DAYS LEFT on the Kickstarter for our newest comic collection, featuring 3 heart-breaking autobio comics about relationships: with our family, with strangers, and with where we come from.
⚜️ Preorder the 2025 collection: kickstarter.com/projects/qui...
⚜️ Preorder the 2025 collection: kickstarter.com/projects/qui...
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Just under 30 hours left with just over £1k to go!!
Thank you everyone who has already supported the campaign so far 💖 please consider backing it if you haven’t already, or share the project with anyone who might be interested in reading any of the comics in this collection 🙏💕 (incl. mine!!)
Thank you everyone who has already supported the campaign so far 💖 please consider backing it if you haven’t already, or share the project with anyone who might be interested in reading any of the comics in this collection 🙏💕 (incl. mine!!)
Common blue butterfly Orkney. 🦋
July 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Common blue butterfly Orkney. 🦋
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Getting new stickers made up for Sequential Scotland on August 2nd! Here's a little preview of some of my favourites.
Introducing MOROSEPHINE, the Sad Bard, who will be featured in a Duel of Fools 2 💧🪕🎶
Introducing MOROSEPHINE, the Sad Bard, who will be featured in a Duel of Fools 2 💧🪕🎶
July 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Getting new stickers made up for Sequential Scotland on August 2nd! Here's a little preview of some of my favourites.
Introducing MOROSEPHINE, the Sad Bard, who will be featured in a Duel of Fools 2 💧🪕🎶
Introducing MOROSEPHINE, the Sad Bard, who will be featured in a Duel of Fools 2 💧🪕🎶
Rosa Mundi. A beauty.
June 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Rosa Mundi. A beauty.
Roses are so prolific this year
June 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Roses are so prolific this year
Pretty summer pastels.
June 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Pretty summer pastels.
Roses blooming in a Scottish garden. Peace, Courage for RNLI 200th, and Dublin Bay. 🌹🌹🌹
June 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Roses blooming in a Scottish garden. Peace, Courage for RNLI 200th, and Dublin Bay. 🌹🌹🌹
From my in-law’s garden.
June 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
From my in-law’s garden.
Newport Brownies will be walking the Tay Bridge next Tuesday (10th June) to raise funds for a water tank for Uphill Junior School. Please help the wee legs keep walking and to reach the target . Thank you. 🙏🏻💙
donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/new...?
donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/new...?
Newport Brownies Sponsored Walk for The Uphill Trust
In 2014, Newport Brownies, accompanied by a crowd of friends, families and the Newport Church Sunday Club, did a sponsored walk across the Tay Bridge to raise funds to buy the very first rainwater har...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Newport Brownies will be walking the Tay Bridge next Tuesday (10th June) to raise funds for a water tank for Uphill Junior School. Please help the wee legs keep walking and to reach the target . Thank you. 🙏🏻💙
donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/new...?
donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/new...?
One of the best things I did during my dental career was work with this amazing charity. To all dental professionals, DO NOT pass up the opportunity to volunteer with Dentaid The Dental Charity. It will be a life changing experience.
June 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
One of the best things I did during my dental career was work with this amazing charity. To all dental professionals, DO NOT pass up the opportunity to volunteer with Dentaid The Dental Charity. It will be a life changing experience.
I heard the word “hostaholic” as a description for a lover of hostas from a grower at Chelsea last week. I can understand completely
May 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I heard the word “hostaholic” as a description for a lover of hostas from a grower at Chelsea last week. I can understand completely
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World Health Organization scales back work after funding cuts reut.rs/43gdxck
World Health Organization scales back work after funding cuts
The World Health Organization has reduced its management team by half and will have to scale back operations, its director-general said on Wednesday, four months after the United States announced it was leaving the agency and cutting funding.
reut.rs
May 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
World Health Organization scales back work after funding cuts reut.rs/43gdxck