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Leid Freen
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Mostly I post photographs and Scots-language text (with English translations).

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A’ll awa.

I’m off.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #woman #path #park #trees #bushes
A colour photograph. On the left of the image, a woman is in the distance, walking away from the camera along a path in a park. Most of the rest of the scene is filled with trees and bushes.
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Three biggins an the cairrie.

Three buildings and the sky.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #buildings #church #spire #sky #clouds
A monochrome photograph showing two adjacent buildings at an angle to the camera. The one on the left is modern and behind it part of a church spire is visible against a cloudy sky.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Kythin agane.

Reappearing.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #car #vehicles #traffic #tunnel #road #motorway
A monochrome photograph. From a distance we are looking down at a car emerging from a single-lane tunnel. Vehicles travelling in the same direction as the car, but on a higher level, can be seen to its right.
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The dug’s no a reader.

The dog’s not a reader.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #shop #books #dog #man #woman #street #pavement
A monochrome photograph showing a view down the pavement of a suburban street. On the left is a shop with books on display outside and a sign that says ‘This week we need donations of volunteers. A smallish black dog is being led past this sign by a man, away from the camera. About to pass them in the opposite direction is a young woman.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Ye can deek it.

You can catch sight of it.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #building #tower #Victorian #trees #sky
A monochrome photograph. In the left foreground is the silhouette of a tree and on the right is part of another tree. Between them, in the distance, is a Victorian tower with a tapering roof. It is more or less silhouetted against a rather cloudy sky.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Baurs an nae baurs.

Bars and no bars.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #monochrome #castle #ruin #window #bars #wall #steps #trees #sky
A colour photograph showing a view through a glassless, barred, arched window. Just outside, to the right, is a stretch of ruined castle wall. Further away are trees and sky. A monochrome photograph showing a view up a small flight of stairs towards an arched entrance through which can be seen the branches of a tree. The light of the outside contrasts with the mainly dark interior. A handrail to the left of the steps can be discerned.
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Biggin heich.

Building high.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #buildings #cranes #construction #concrete #tree #sky
A monochrome photograph showing a building under construction. Prominent are four tall concrete cores and three tower cranes. On the left side of the image is part of a tree.
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A tulloch? Ar they shakkin a fit inby?

A fairy mound? Are they dancing inside?

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #mound #landscape #fairies #folklore #sky #trees #grass
A monochrome photograph showing a grassy mound in the foreground and trees in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Stane faut.

Stone fault.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #art #colour #colourphotography #monochrome #building #ruin #arch #stone #medieval #sky
A photograph showing a black-and-white image of part of a ruined medieval building. The top part of an arched entrance is visible at the bottom of the image. The sky is a very pale yellow. A photograph showing the same image. However, this version has been processed to show distortion in some of the stonework. And this version has a slightly more pink sky.
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Hyde seek tech.

#photography #art #colour #colourphotography #hand #fingers #screen #computer #red
A photograph which has being processed to show part of a red hand with partially black, outspread fingers which is obscuring much of the right side of a sign-in page on a computer screen. The area above the screen is red with a small, irregularly shaped, patch of black which is obscured by the screen’s top-right corner
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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There twa o thim ootby.

There are two of them outside.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #art #glass #rocks #landscape #people #sky
A monochrome photograph. We are looking through pains of glass towards a rocky landscape. In the distance, barely visible against the sky, are two figures.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Rokes an jeel i the simmer.

Rocks and ice in summer.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #icecream #van #rocks #hill #people #trafficsign #grass #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland.
A monochrome photograph. In the bottom-left foreground an ice-cream van is parked in front of a fence behind which is a, largely rocky, hillside. The van, in front of which is a rock with a triangular ‘roundabout’ traffic sign, is facing the camera. To the right of the van a few people are queuing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Beckin.

Bowing.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #man #tree #hill #grass #sky
A colour photograph showing a grassy hillside. A tree and the small figure of a man can be seen – partly against a blue, cloudless sky. The man is bowing his head to look at his phone and the tree is leaning towards him.
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Anither railins owerby.

Another set of railings over there.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #railings #grass #gravel #building #Edinburgh #Scotland
A colour photograph showing a view through the upper parts of some dark-green railings towards another set of railings at the entrance to a tunnel on a grassy slope in the distance. In between is a gravel surface. Also visible in the distance, on the right-hand side, is part of a pillar.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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A bit licht an shedda in Embro.

A bit of light and shadow in Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #gable #whitewash #chimney #shadow #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland
A colour photograph showing an old whitewashed building which is roughly U-shaped, has a red roof and has two windowed gable walls – each topped by a chimney – facing the camera at an angle. The right-hand gable wall is in shadow. The sky is blue and cloudless.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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‘A mile an a bittock, a mile or twa’.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #woman #man #people #summer #walking #path #grass #hill #poetry
A colour photograph. In the foreground, a man and a woman, dressed for summer, are walking side by side away from the camera and up a curving, gently sloping path through grass. In the background is a hill with pale blue sky above it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Quine an Cailleach.

Young woman and older woman.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #women #man #people #wall #face
A colour photograph. In the background is a grey wall. In the middle ground, on the left, a young woman is walking in the general direction of the camera. She is partly obscured by the shoulder and arm of a man, the rest of whom is out of shot. In the bottom-right foreground, roughly one half of an older woman’s face/head is visible.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The Naitional Moniment o Scotlan, Embro.

The National Monument of Scotland, Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #monument #Edinburgh #Scotland #hill #people #grass #sky.
A monochrome photograph showing a very large monument inspired by Classical Greek architecture. People can be seen on and around its base, which supports twelve Doric columns topped by an entablature.
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Brae-face tae braeheid.

Hillside to hilltop.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #hillside #bush #grass #hilltop #monuments #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland.
A monochrome photograph. In the right foreground is a bush while to its left, and extending beyond it, is a grassy slope. In the distance is a hilltop on which can be seen two monuments and some trees.
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Brattach an biggin. A doot this is a compaingen piece tae the twa limns ablow.

Flag and building. I suppose this is a companion piece to the two photographs below.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #flag #flowers #horns #roof #sky #Scotland #architecture
A colour photograph. In the background is the upper part of an old whitewashed building. In the foreground, but appearing to fly above the building and against a blue sky, is a yellow flag hanging from a more-or-less horizontal pole. On the flag are three representations of a red-and-yellow flower tied to a blue-and-red horn.
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The lums, the lift an aw that.

The chimneys, the sky and all that.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #colourphotography #buildings #roofs #chimneys #sky #structures #architecture
A monochrome photograph looking up at the sky and taking in the upper stories of part of an old building on the left, and, on the right, part of the side and underside of a structure supporting temporary seating. A monochrome photograph looking up at the sky and taking in the upper stories of part of an old whitewashed building in the background on the left, and, on the right in the foreground, part of the metal ornamentation of a building opposite.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Burds on the riggin.

Birds on the roof.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #wall #buildings #roof #birds #tower #sky
A monochrome photograph. In the foreground is the upper part of a wall. Over the top of the wall can be seen the roof of an old building with several birds sitting on it – mainly on the ridge. To the left of the building an old tower is visible in the distance.
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Jooglin thae lowes.

Juggling those flames.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #fire #flames #juggling #streetperformer #man #people #crowd
A colour photograph of a man giving a performance that involves the juggling of fire torches. He stands on a platform surrounded by a crowd. In the background are the columns and windows of a building.
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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No the Saxties.

Not the Sixties.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #art #colour #colourphotography #monochrome #building #glass #architecture
A photograph showing a top corner of a modern building. Its walls are glass and the sky has been replaced by an area of green.
October 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Tarpitin daffin. Signin durin an enterteenment on the Royal Mile, Embro.

Interpreting fun. Signing during an entertainment on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #Edinburgh #RoyalMile #Scotland #signlanguage #BSL #deaf
A colour photograph showing a woman in a ‘BSL’ T-shirt who is using sign language. In the foreground are parts of the backs of heads of people in the crowd that she is standing in front of. Behind her is the grey wall of a building as well as black railings.
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM