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Plenty of other trees around but no other fungi, just this giant
Tree roots with giant fungus
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Ditto for Scotland. Definite upsides.
'Armed Policing - Firearm discharges 2022/23 - Scotland' Monthly figures from April to March - all showing zero... apart from September, which records "3 (in relation to destruction of animal)".
August 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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UK Government target for next year is for NHS England to be 3% behind last year's NHS Scotland performance.
Statistics from BBC website showing that 59.7% of patients in England waited less than 18 weeks for treatment in December 2024, while 68% of patients in Scotland waited less than 18 weeks - 3% higher than the target set by the UK Government for NHS England next year.
June 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The decoration is mostly (all?) inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson, who grew up in Colinton. There's more RLS to see around Colinton, plus Phoebe Anna Traquair's wrought ironwork
Wrought iron archway in Colinton, Edinburgh - the entrance to "THE LONG STEPS - A Walk With Robert Louis Stevenson" featuring his portrait. Plaque on the wall of Colinton churchyard and Manse in Edinburgh, titled A Walk With Robert Louis Stevenson. "As a boy, RLS would have frequently passed this place when staying with his grandfather at the nearby Colinton Manse. 'It was a place in that time like no other: the garden cut into provinces by a great hedge of beech, and overlooked by the church and the terrace of the churchyard, where the tombstones were thick, and after nightfall "spunkies" might be seen to dance, at least by children; Memories and Portraits - Robert Louis Stevenson. Visit the Swing Cafe in the churchyard to see the old yew tree that held the swing believed to have inspired RLS to write his poem The Swing." Statue of a young Robert Louis Stevenson with his skye terrier "Coolin", in front of Colinton Kirk in Edinburgh. He is perched on a tree stump with an open book balanced on his knee. The plaque reads: "All through my boyhood and youth I was known and pointed out for the patterm of an idler and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. from Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson" Wrought iron decorations, designed by the artist Phoebe Anna Traquair, adorning the railings beside a footpath in Colinton, Edinburgh.
June 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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@seananmcguire.bsky.social I only just finished Every Heart A Doorway in the wee sma' hours of this morning and now, on an organised walk this morning, I encounter this beauty. RLS knew a doorway for sure - Tusitala, the teller of tales.
A plaque in Colinton, Edinburgh, with Robert Louis Stevenson's poem The Flowers, from A Child's Garden of Verse.
May 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Please do not sit on the exhibits!
Bench almost entirely covered in lichen; showing no sign of it being disturbed by anyone sitting on it.
May 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I've just finished chapter 51 of The Relentless Moon - which is great btw - so it's incredibly surreal to check the latest news from the BBC and find this!
Photo shows all-female crew (passengers) of Blue Origin rocket.
April 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Homage au Capitaine Dreyfus, Louis Mitelberg
A statue - Homage au Capitaine Dreyfus by Louis Mitelberg, Place Pierre Lafue, Paris
April 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Good news
Cover of 'Rebirth' board game, showing a mountaintop castle
April 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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@whatsonedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social two days left to see Wasps at @traversetheatre.bsky.social starring Yolanda Mitchell in a phenomenal performance. Don't miss it.
Cast and crew for Wasps, featuring Yolanda Mitchell.
March 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Unmistakable on stage
February 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Looks straightforward. Are you sure it's a gromit machine?
Gromit attempts to control, rodeo style, one of Wallace's typically truculent inventions; from 'Cracking Contraptions'. https://www.wallaceandgromit.com/films/cracking-contraptions/
December 21, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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It was a big hit at Spiel, finishing high on the Fairplay list (German title Astrobienen).
Final Fairplay rankings on the Sunday at Spiel 24 in Essen, showing Top 10 (including Astrobienen/Apiary) and 'Hidden Gems'.
December 20, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Read Pat Wrede's Talking to Dragons, inspired by a mention from Louis McMaster Bujold. Recommended for younger readers and anyone who can enjoy a good fairytale adventure.
Cover of Talking to Dragons with a short review - original at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6996516725g
November 16, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Talk of living in converted churches makes me think of Ian Bank's Espedair Street.
My favourite conversion though is this beauty.
Interior of a Romanesque church in Edinburgh, gloriously decorated with renaissance style murals by Phoebe Ann Traquair.
October 26, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Reiner signing Mike's copy of Rebirth - the queue for signing stretched right round the @mightyboards.bsky.social booth #EssenSpiel2024 #Spiel24 #boardgames
October 18, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Tom Vasel and Mike Dilisio from The Dice Tower playing Reiner Knizia's Rebirth from @mightyboards.bsky.social at #EssenSpiel2024 #Spiel23 #boardgames
October 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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@adapalmer.bsky.social Many thanks for the recommendations. Others on order, but looking forward to reading these.
Pile of four sci-fi Manga: Sowa 1926-39 - Mizuki / Apollo's Song & Black Jack 1 - Tezuka / Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka - Urasawa, Nagasaki & Tezka
August 16, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Though they do also have tayto vending machines.
February 16, 2024 at 10:07 AM