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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 36m

Goodnight.
🖼️ Laurie A Conley #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

One ghost pushing another ghost on a swing hung from a tree over graveyard headstones, a full moon shines overhead. Illustration.

Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 1h

Continuing our umpteenth Babylon 5 rewatch. We’ve just started season 3, and I’m reminded just how much I like the season 3 version of the theme tune.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 4h

My review of Katabasis by RF Kuang vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/727440.html #BookSky

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 19h

One of 7 dippers (likely 5 individuals) seen on my walk around the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughty Ferry on a hot bright Saturday afternoon. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A white-throated dipper bird perched on the wet water-weed and autumn-left covered face of a weir with autumn leaves. They have a chestnut brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. Their back is slightly mottled dark brown with dark brown wings.

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 19h

A goldcrest. Heard them in lots of places throughout my walk and finally managed to get this brief view after a lot of waiting patiently. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A close-up image of a small brown bird with dark eyes and a straight dark moustache perched on a thin branch. Their is a tinge of yellow-green around their wings which have black and white patches on.

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 19h

A chiffchaff quietly flitting about in dappled sunlight in the woods beside the Dighty Burn at Panmurefield in Broughty Ferry. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

An image of a yellow-brown bird with black legs perched on a branch lit by a sunbeam.

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 19h

A grey heron perched on a dead tree above the Dighty Burn in Monifieth. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A large grey bird with a black and white head and an long orange pointed beak perched on a dead tree against a pale blue sky.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 20h

Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk in the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶

A wood pigeon seen from below perched high, facing left, in a tree with green leaves and blue sky behind.

A drone fly seen from behind on a large green leaf. It has a dark brown and orange body with see through wings beside it.

One arch of an old railway viaduct peeking out from trees - very autumnal coloured on the right side - with blue sky behind.

A grey squirrel facing right, head slightly turned this way, perched among green leaves. It holds a bunch of red berries.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 20h

Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk in the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 1d

Was mystified when my Yodel app threw up a mysterious parcel newly on the way to me. Mystery now solved. It's a reprint copy of the "For Northwood" solo trick taking card game which I'd ordered. Now on way to me from China. Yodel will be delivering it at this end. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33...

For Northwood! A Solo Trick-Taking Game

Woodland rulers engage in debate in this tactical solo trick-taking game.

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 1d

A close-up of some of the lower-flying pink-footed geese in a smaller flock heading north over north Monifieth in late afternoon. The biggest flock had 900+ birds. ~100% crop of 300mm equiv. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A zoom shot of three geese with wings spread wide flying overhead towards the left against a deep blue sky. They are pale brown with darker brown heads, all tinged by a golden sunset.

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 1d

A close-up of some of the lower-flying pink-footed geese in a smaller flock heading north over north Monifieth in late afternoon. The biggest flock had 900+ birds. 200% crop of 300mm equiv. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A zoom shot of seven geese flying overhead towards the left against a deep blue sky. They are pale brown with darker brown heads, all tinged by a golden sunset.

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 1d

One of several large, noisy, flocks of pink-footed geese that overflew north Monifieth late this afternoon, heading north. I count around 830 birds in this image and I couldn't fit them all in the frame. The smaller flocks of 20-50 birds were often silent which caught me out. 📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

An image of blue sky with lots of tiny dark marks across the field of view forming a random wavy lines. Around 830 pink-footed geese.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 2d

Souter Stormers - yarn bombing at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders youtu.be/KwI2lQtbmdE

Souter Stormers

YouTube video by Frank Brown

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 2d

Tuned in to the Hawick versus Currie rugby match right now. Airing on BBC ALBA. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC ALBA - Rugbaidh air BBC ALBA/Rugby on BBC ALBA, Men's Premiership 2025/26, Hawick v Currie

Live rugby from the Men's Premiership with Hawick RFC facing Currie Chieftains RFC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s arrivals. The new 3rd edition of James Hoffmann’s World Atlas of Coffee, and the latest Celestial Toyroom fanzine from the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.

The two books are resting beside each other on a red sofa. The coffee book on the left is large and hardback, with a brown cover with a coffee plant design on it. Celestial Toyroom is much smaller, a paperback booklet, featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor plus companions and more.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 2d

Buying another academic textbook secondhand, and got a copy for £5 free postage. The identical copy (exact same physical book) was listed by the same seller on two other platforms for £25 and £50. Worth shopping around! Bookfinder.com + ISBN made price comparisons really easy. Book on way to me now.

BookFinder.com: New & Used Books, Rare Books, Textbooks

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 2d

What's your escape from harrowing research🤔
Catriona cooks, arranges & takes photographs of food to escape 19th century death. 👇
BBC News - I photograph food to escape my harrowing research
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I photograph food to escape my harrowing research

Catriona Byers is an expert on 19th Century morgue who also works as a food stylist.

www.bbc.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 2d

Looking into the sun at the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee. My weather app said it would be bright and sunny all day but it was mostly windy and overcast! 📸🎞️ #river #tay #bridge

A wide shot of a dark rail bridge crossing a wide and bright silvery river with grey and pale salmon clouds in the sky. A small train can be seen in the middle of the image on the bridge.

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Huddersfield Exposed @huddersfield.exposed · 3d

Always interesting to compare the Halifax Piece Hall with the Huddersfield Cloth Hall (built 1766). The latter was reportedly described as the "ugliest building in Europe" and few were sad to see the long-disused building razed to the ground at the end of the 1920s.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 3d

As an academic I'm expected to read textbooks as needed. Unfortunately it's a huge problem with my progressive neurological disease and has been for 25+ years now, inc during my history taught MPhil and PhD. So I'm extremely grateful for anything that can help narrow it down. Including a good index!

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 3d

Looking at an academic textbook I bought I could access it quickly. "Yup, this will be useful!" And grateful for its fairly extensive index, which is much more detailed and useful than the index for a related 1970s textbook I borrowed from the uni library. Which pretty much just indexes names.

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 4d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 4d

An awesome book delivery from Sherlock & Pages bookshop in Frome, Somerset. Huge thanks! Love their curated collection of books, and found me some gems I didn’t know about. #Booksky

4 books perched on a red sofa. At the top, standing up, are “A Venetian Bestiary” by Jan Morris, and “A Little Book of Somerset” by Maurice Fells. Below them, lying flat, are the graphic novel version of “Watership Down” by Richard Adam, and “Church Curiosities: Strange Objects and Bizarre Legends” by David Castleton.

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