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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful couple of days in Dunkeld 🍁

#scotland #autumn #perthshire

Autumn evening sky by the Tay in Dunkeld

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 24d

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · 23d

Views from Broughty Castle Museum yesterday, looking along the Tay towards Dundee and along the beach towards Angus and just up at the beautiful blue sky 🌞

#bluesky #blueskies #dundee #angus #scotland #scottishskies #broughtyferry

Broughty castle, looking through an arrowslit towards a red house along the waterfront

Looking from Broughty castle along the river Tay towards Dundee

Looking from Broughty castle along the beach towards Monifieth

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Sep 20

Very few folk turned out to protest about immigration in Dundee today but there were lots of us there to counter them just in case. We were a strong friendly crowd, singing and chanting all afternoon, reclaiming the saltire and welcoming refugees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎶
#dundee #scotlandwelcomesrefugees #saltire

Placards saying refugees are welcome in Scotland.

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · Sep 16

*Stand with New Dundonians - Refugees are Welcome Here!*

The far-right are targeting refugees in Dundee again this Saturday 20th September - again, we say no in oor city!

Photo of Dundee. Text reads: stand with new dundonians. Refugees are welcome here. Gather at Alloway Place, DD4 8UA, 1pm, Saturday 20th September. Various organisation and trade Union logos who support the demo are included at the bottom of the image: fire brigades Union, unison Dundee city branch, stand up to racism tayside, Dundee pensioners forum, unity community, unite retired members, Dundee TUC, Dundee for Palestine, women against the far right

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Aug 16

Available to watch online - well worth your time:

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

#EdinburghBookFestival #AClimateOfTruth

Watch online: Mike Berners-Lee: Climate Action and the Power of Truth

From Sat 16 Aug - Global emissions are worse than ever. The ‘polycrisis’ we face reaches far beyond the climate. Why have we continued to fail when we have the means to succeed?…

www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Aug 7

Nice work 🎶

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · Jul 28

So many people are getting in touch asking if they can get back copies of Friday's paper

The answer is no ... we are completely sold out. Everywhere.

You can order a poster version here though!

www.thenational.scot/news/2534754...

Our Trump front page completely sold out – so you can buy it as a poster

OUR team has been totally overwhelmed by the volume of people seeking physical copies of Friday's viral Trump "convicted felon" front…

www.thenational.scot

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jul 27

Brilliant work @vadundee.bsky.social just now - 'Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine'. Free entry to this exhibition with detail, history, art, politics and beauty - all in a couple of small rooms.

#dundee #tatreez #palestine #embroidery

Absence does not mean forgetting by Leena Nammari 2022

Dress damaged in bombing of the Rafah Museum in Gaza 2023

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jul 10

Been away, caught a few rainbows on the way 🌈

#rainbows #northumberland #dumfriesandgalloway

End of a rainbow coming out of a cloud over beach in Dumfries and Galloway

Rainbow and clouds over beach in Dumfries and Galloway

Rainbow and trees through hotel window in Northumberland

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 29

Yes, Raye and band were brilliant ❤️

Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 29

Agreed, just listening to it on night shift. Perfect ❤️

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 28

Watched English Teacher and Loyle Carner on computer this morning ❤️

Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 24

Did a section of the Dundee Green Circular on Saturday (about 12 miles anticlockwise, on foot not bike) as part of my #KiltwalkDundee prep. Lots to see along the Dighty Burn and beyond 📷

#dundee #walking

View of Broughty Ferry from Grassy Beach

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 16

I've been out walking a bit recently to get ready for #DundeeKiltwalk in August. Here are a couple of last week's local sights 📷

Dog artwork by Paco Graff

#StreetArt #dogs #Dundee #walking

Mural in Dundee of a black and white dog by Paco Graff

The beach at Broughty Ferry with blue sky and lifeguard hut

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 6

Recent reading/listening. Somethings old, something new(ish), something borrowed etc.

I've switched to @libro.fm for audio, still using Libby app for free ones too.

#books #booksky #audiobooks

Covers of six books: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld, Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (audio), Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty, Fury by Kathryn Heyman (audio), Middle England by Jonathan Coe, The Green Road by Anne Enright (audio).

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 1

And of course 'Heartwood' by @spellsongs.bsky.social (which is also Karine but lots of other lovelies too). Saw them all in Edinburgh recently - so good!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdG...

Spell Songs - Heartwood (Live at The Natural History Museum)

YouTube video by Hudson Records

www.youtube.com

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 1

And here is another tree piece by Karine Polwart for you @cerysmatthews.bsky.social - 'Windblown' about a Sabal palm at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden (more info easy to find at her website).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WPc...

Wind Blown

YouTube video by Karine Polwart - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 1

Another tree song for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
'Rebecca' by Karine Polwart on the recent Chapin Carpenter/Fowlis/Polwart album 'Looking for the Thread'. The song is about a name carved into a beech tree in West Lothian. Karine has other tree songs...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJ-...

Rebecca

YouTube video by Mary Chapin Carpenter - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · Jun 1

Tree songs for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
How about 'Niel Gow's Apprentice' by the marvellous Michael Marra? Mentions 'the fiddle tree' in Dunkeld (Burns used Gow's tunes..). Others have released versions of Marra's song (incl. Fairport Convention).
#MichaelMarra

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QM...

Niel Gow's Apprentice

YouTube video by Michael Marra - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · May 20

With so much negativity in the world it was many happy breaths of positivity to finally witness the Spell Songs project live on stage at the weekend. Beautiful music, lovely people, all the good tears. And "let the raven call you home" to fade... 🎶 🦊

#SpellSongs #Edinburgh #LiveMusic #LostWords

Stage at Usher Hall just before Spell Songs show. Banners with Jackie Morris artwork from Lost Words books.

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · May 17

Just back from a lovely trip up north. Beautiful views of Kyle of Sutherland (from house and riverbank/river), a dip in Loch Shin and more sun than we knew what to do with...

#Scotland #ScottishHighlands #Sunshine #Sutherland

View from the house, looking over Kyle of Sutherland.

A red canoe on the shale beach at edge of Kyle of Sutherland.

Sunset driving south from Lairg to Kyle of Sutherland.

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · May 5

Loved the music in this film 🎶

Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · May 5

Was reminded today of all the 4-line poems (mostly political in content) that I wrote for the other place. I put them all together in a post a while back:

slowlaneshuffle.blogspot.com/2020/06/twee...

Tweet tweet

Art at the top of the Law, Dundee by Paco Graff (photo 1st May 2020) I got a Twitter account quite late in the day (my fi...

slowlaneshuffle.blogspot.com

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Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social · May 5

Stripes

Nigel Farage, halt your hole,

Pinstripes can confuse the soul,

You have championed quite a rift,

Bitter Britain is your gift.

(an old thing from 2017, and still he rises...)

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