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HT Burbridge
@burbridgeht.bsky.social
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Part-Cockney writer, sub-editor and flibbertigibbet living in Scotland. Music, pictures, books, and other stuff.
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HT Burbridge @burbridgeht.bsky.social · 10d
#WeekXForChristmas
#AlphabetChallenge
#Photography

Christmas window, #Edinburgh
B&W photograph of metal bars over a window with Christmas decorations inside the glass merging with reflections of a row of tenements on the surface
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Friday
December 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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#MusicChallenge
#SoundtrackThis
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17.12. - Egypt

Django Django - Skies over Cairo

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December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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#nowplaying #vinyl
The Cramps — ‘Songs the Lord Taught Us’
Recent reissue, which was mail-order only at first, apparently.
The Cramps’ debut album on marbled purple vinyl.
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The Christmas Blues
YouTube video by Dean Martin - Topic
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December 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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sometimes you need pink dahlia energy to get you through the day
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Official Christmas soundtrack on… 🎵🎄 #sufjanstevens
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Going to throw myself a puffin party like this Jill McDonald dream and until I do, I’m going to discourse on the mysterious universe
A black and white cartoon drawing captioned a puffin party illustrated by a puffin playing pin the beak on the puffin with its own beak, two puffins complaining about the host expecting a gift and a group of humans in party hats with one saying I am now going to discourse on the mysterious universe
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Hard wired - the intrusive and excessive use of barbed wire in the landscape creates a stark visual barrier detracting from the vast open space - Lake District Observations -
Working Landscape

📷Pentax 17
🎞️Ilford HP5
🧪DDX

#believeinfilm #filmphotography
A black and white analogue photograph of a fence post with several pieces of barbed wire attached to it. The sharp industrial appearance is in complete contrast to the Lake District fells in the background.
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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🎄 #GothicAdvent
Victorian Christmas card, cream background, illustration of candle with face decoration in tree, its ringing a bell, next to a biscuit decoration, Merry Christmas.
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 15
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A scene like a Christmas card featuring a view to a snow-covered village church, with a frozen pond, holly, robin and children pulling sleds
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Catkins, March 2025
A lovely theme for Y, thanks Sheena!
The name "catkins" comes from a Dutch word for "kitten," because of their resemblance to a cat's tail. This takes me back to a mild Spring season.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #nature #ClassicMono #PictureOfTheDay
A black and white photograph in portrait format. It shows some slender branches against the sky with fluffy catkins, or seed heads, providing seed for the coming year. That's such a positive thought.
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#WeekXforXmas
#AlphabetChallenge
#Photography 📷

Shopping centre, #Edinburgh
Image of an almost deserted shopping centre with tiled flooring and suspended light ceiling with a single tinsel chain zigzagging back and forth across with with the odd red bauble. There’s a metallic planter and seating with a palm at the centre in the middle of the picture.
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 13

I Wanna Make It Wit Chu
-- PJ Harvey + Josh Homme (Desert Sessions)
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Desert Sessions - "I Wanna Make It Wit Chu" (PJ Harvey & J. Homme)
YouTube video by Frank Lyalone
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December 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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#10minutesfromhome #BlueskyArtShow #FavouriteThings
Misty mornings like today 😊
A view over Elton Reservoir early this frosty morning. The sun was rising behind me and over the water was a later of mist tinged a blush pink by the sun. An electricity pylon/tower can just be seen on the left. There was a layer of cloud above the tree lined horizon in a blue skythat was reflected in the water
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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she’s lost control

joy division
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Live At Something Else Show) [Remastered] [HD]
YouTube video by Agustín Casas Solaro
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December 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The number one thing I've learned in gearing up to launch my first book: So many cool books are constantly entering the world. Do yourself a favor: Skim this list and request a couple you've never heard of from your library. Talented people with great stories are all around you
The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025
Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…
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December 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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#EmojiSounds
#MusicChallenge
Day 13: 🎹
“Blue Monk”, Thelonious Monk

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Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966)
YouTube video by The Jazz Estate
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December 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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What i post from
Pic of Major Morgan the Electronic Organ 80s toy & instructions from PlaySkool
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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otis redding ♡ you send me
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#readandplay (555) 📚

Impossible Soul pt. 5: The Pleasure Principle - Sufjan Stevens

#MusicChallenge 🎵
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#WeekXforXmas
#AlphabetChallenge
#Photography 📷

Illuminated house, Dalkeith
Photograph of a vividly illuminated pebble/dashed house at night decked in Christmas decorations. There is a giant inflatable snowman and Santa in the garden with numerous illuminated trees, wreaths and festive banners and a house covered in lights on the walls and around the windows and gables.
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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#MusicThroughYears
#MusicChallenge by @euatbs.bsky.social
Day 13 : 1988(-1989)
Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO
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December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Letting the light in - capturing magical moments with my little half frame companion, the light breaking through the clouds created such an incredible atmosphere, stunning and dramatic

📷Pentax 17
🎞️Ilford HP5
🧪DDX

#believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #HFF #filmphotography
A black and white half frame film photograph of light coming through a break in the clouds. The sky is quite overcast and the landscape is quite dark except for the dramatic natural light cascading over the fells
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM