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The Dreaded Lurgy
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Cobblers. Sometimes found in Ecclefechan.
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jennscott1485.bsky.social
Edinburgh Castle looking pretty on my home after a meeting.
Edinburgh Castle lit up this evening with Princes St gardens below it also covered in lights
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
"...We're in the Trent!"
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“Well, I beg your pardon … but where I come from, it’s considered a compliment to let fly with a good trumpeting after dinner.”
“Well, I beg your pardon … but where I come from, it’s considered a compliment to let fly with a good trumpeting after dinner.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Life on Rome’s northern frontier: a 1,900-year-old military memo in which a Roman soldier records the combat tactics of the Britons, who he refers to as ‘Brittunculi’ — ‘wretched Brits’! 😳

From Vindolanda, Northumberland, 📷 by me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a thin, rectangular, dark brown leaf of wood, which is broken in places. Across the surface are six lines of cursive Latin handwriting. The text is written in black ink which appears faded and faint. The Latin reads: nenụ ...[.]n. Brittoneṣ nimium multi ‣ equites gladis ‣ non ụtụṇtur equi- tes ‣ nec residunt Brittunculi ‣ ụt ‣ iaculos mittant Translated as: … the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins. On display at the British Museum.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
I amused myself with this, even if no one else liked it, so here it is again.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
Might be my favourite Peploe. That glass: exquisite.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Well, that ramped up quickly. #Thanksgiving
An advert against marijuana that reads: "This Thanksgiving remember the cranberry sauce but forget the Marijuana. Terry was convinced to take a toke of a joint with his friend 'just to relax.' Immediately after, Terry killed his friend who had given him the marijuana in a murderous crazy. Not so safe, is it?"
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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rsmythfreelance.bsky.social
"Dickensian"
A light-up acrylic Dickensian snowman.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
Factor Fexcectorn is a track on the third Boards of Canada album, I think.
erikangner.com Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 23h
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.

lfi-online.de/en/stories/e...

www.instagram.com/p/CIDnpVhAFT...
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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birmingham81.bsky.social
Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
2 high profile Neolithic stories in the media today. Yet again focused on the Stonehenge landscape & Orkney. As usual everything in between receives a fraction of the investment, time & media coverage. Neolithic studies in Britain is no better balanced now than it was 50 yrs ago
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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baldiepete.bsky.social
Normally I wouldn’t post photos of tourist haunts in Edinburgh but five years ago in November 2020, when almost everything was shut and we were restricted to moving around in our own council area I went up town to take some photos of Edinburgh with no (or very few) people.
Looking up West Bow and Victoria Street at night. The shop fronts are very colourful and there are Christmas lights strings across the street. There are no people to be seen. A black and white photo of Greyfriars Bobby on George IV Bridge at night. There are no people near the statue and only a handful of people in total further up the street. A black and white photo of Castlehill at night outside the Witchery restaurant. There are Christmas lights on the building opposite. A small aperture has been used to create a starburst effect on the streetlights.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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lines on Grange prom
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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threadinburgh.scot
The museum recalls that life onshore at Scapa, especially in the outlying posts, was so much fun that some guys were queuing up to volunteer for the Western Front for an upgrade in their circumstances
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Just met a British bodega cat.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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andymitchellmedia.bsky.social
Emma Clarke, pioneering footballer with the British Ladies FC, died 100 years ago today, 27 November 1925. She has a fascinating story, this is what I wrote about her: www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
A case of mistaken identity – Emma Clarke and the British Ladies Football Club
Emma Clarke has been hailed as 'the first black woman footballer' for her exploits with the British Ladies Football Club in 1895.    There have been feature articles about her in national media,...
www.scottishsporthistory.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
Hertfordshire Edible Dormice Misidentification KLAXON
richardkbroughton.bsky.social Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 18h
Unforgiveable misidentification aside, it's interesting that non-native Edible Dormice are using below-ground infrastructure like this, which clearly has implications for allowing them to bypass barriers (like roads and open/hard surfaces) to spread.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Video shows squirrels living in Hertfordshire drain system
Other items discovered in roadside drains around Hertfordshire include a trampoline and grenade.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
thedreadedlurgy.bsky.social
'You'll only drive it underground'.
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM