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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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Official Christmas soundtrack on… 🎵🎄 #sufjanstevens
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 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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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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#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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#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
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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#WeekWForWindows
#AlphabetChallenge

Keeking through, Southside
B&W photograph taken through a high tenement window to a wispy blue sky and corner of Archer’s Hall beyond
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Monastic contemplation

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows 📷 #photography
Shot of a stone window in a dormitory of a ruined abbey, there are flagstones on the floor, two stone window seats either side of the window which looks out onto a grass, blue sky and a yew tree
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Out out. Some tasty black cherry gubbins. Cheers!
Photo of a mostly full glass of Black Cherry beer on a wooden table with a table lamp with the golden lights of the bar glowing behind it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
#Photography 📷

‘A’ is for Arcade & Amusements
Photo taken inside an old seaside amusement arcade. There’s a 2p coin machine with illuminated characters, and behind it the glass window of the change booth with spades and buckets hanging up and a ‘No Loitering’ sign in front.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge #WeekUForUnloved
#Photography
Shot of an abandoned blue fair isle mitten draped over a metal chain link front garden fence. Gravel, a spiky green plant and a sandstone wall are behind the fence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Thanks Paula, so sorry for your loss. I’m hanging on in there, lots trips visiting dad in hospital, but the views are beautiful 🤍 x
Shot of the Wallace Monument looking across to the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#MusicChallenge
#NovemberAlchemy
22/11: The Last Apple's Descent

Little Green Apples - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
🎵 youtu.be/a4_d6iqQ2Ms
Photo of Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry album with the vinyl record playing in front
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#Photography

TV show: CHiPs

The Meadows, #Edinburgh
B&W phot of a girl holding a punnet of chips in a park in winter. Her nail varnish is chipped. There are trunks of bare trees. People are walking by on a path in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#Photography

TV show: Cutting It

Hairdressers, Southside
B&W shot inside a hairdressers. It has distressed wooden panel walls, vintage teacups, mirrors, dressing room lighting - you can see a reflection of people walking by window in one of the mirrors.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision
#Television #MarqueeMoon #MusicSky
B&W photograph of a vinyl copy of Marquee Moon by Television with the record playing in front
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Rainbow over the Tweed, Dryburgh Abbey

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#photography
#mobilephotography
#scotland
#scottishborders
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #photography

Games night, Southside
Black and white photograph of people sitting playing a card game casting shadows on the table of counters in front of them. You can just see their hands holding the cards.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Photography

Boroughloch, #Edinburgh
Shot through a sandstone arch to a close of narrow tenement buildings with lighted windows against a inky twilight sky with a puff of white cloud
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Stained glass windows, Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed
B&W shot looking up to the shadows in the vaulted ceiling of the church, an stone arch, stone bricks, a circular recessed stained glass window are all illuminated by shafts of light from another stained glass window with three panels on the right
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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#WeekRForRock
#AlphabetChallenge

Winter walk, Arthur’s Seat
Colour shot of a strip of craggy rock in winter sunlight, to the right of it scrubby grass with the silhouette of a bare little tree with a crow in it against a blue sky
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQForQuiet
#Photography
Black-and-white picture of a misty empty street at night with hazy street lights a tree on the right and a car in the distance.
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink

Plastic greenhouse, Duddingston
Shot of the end of a curved plastic greenhouse at dusk against a tree-lined pink sunset sky. You can see a green vine curving inside and two white flowering bushes either side of the door.
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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#WeekPforPink
#AlphabetChallenge
#photography

Summerhall, Edinburgh
Image of a Victorian red brick building partially illuminated with pink lighting, its windows reflecting trees and a sunset
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#coffeetime #moomins
B&W picture of a Moomins mug (the ancestor Moomin) on a wooden table.
October 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Rooftop and trees, Scottish Borders #suburbia #blueskymonday #photography
Gabled rooftop and chimney with aerial next to yellow/green leylandii trees against a vivid clear, blue sky
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM