@suespins.bsky.social
Gardener, allotment holder. Plays with fibre - spins, knits, crochets and weaves. Has had an 'interesting career path' - now retired!
Current postgrad student at UHI, Viking Studies.
Current postgrad student at UHI, Viking Studies.
James is always worth listening to, a great date for your diary!
The next Triskele Heritage winter lecture is happening next week. Please do feel free to share far and wide if you can 🙂
More info and bookings can be found here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
More info and bookings can be found here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
January 20, 2026 at 7:14 PM
James is always worth listening to, a great date for your diary!
So pleased this will be a legitimate part of my course work this semester 🤣
January 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
So pleased this will be a legitimate part of my course work this semester 🤣
I don’t know who chooses the music on bbc radio3, but starting their programme from Boston, USA, with Mars the bringer of war seems dead on the money 🤣🤣🤣
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM
I don’t know who chooses the music on bbc radio3, but starting their programme from Boston, USA, with Mars the bringer of war seems dead on the money 🤣🤣🤣
Channeling my inner Nigel Slater with this morning’s home made bread and a bowl of lentil soup for lunch.
January 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Channeling my inner Nigel Slater with this morning’s home made bread and a bowl of lentil soup for lunch.
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Barbara G. Walker is no longer with us. A lifelong feminist, writer, folklorist, and knitting pioneer. A trailblazer, a guiding light, and a woman who always connected her making hands with her inquisitive brain. Vale, Barbara. Thank you for knocking down doors over & over.
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Barbara G. Walker is no longer with us. A lifelong feminist, writer, folklorist, and knitting pioneer. A trailblazer, a guiding light, and a woman who always connected her making hands with her inquisitive brain. Vale, Barbara. Thank you for knocking down doors over & over.
Just watching a little group of (I think) goosander pootling around Bays Loch in the outer hebrides here www.coralboxwebcam.co.uk/ptzcam.html
Berneray Bay Loch PTZ Cam. This live streaming panoramic webcam is located in the shoreline of Bays Loch.
Our live webcams look onto Bays Loch, Berneray in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Currently we have three live webcams, with one as a fixed view in the shoreline and one as a moving PTZ webcam panning...
www.coralboxwebcam.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Just watching a little group of (I think) goosander pootling around Bays Loch in the outer hebrides here www.coralboxwebcam.co.uk/ptzcam.html
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
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Northumbria NHS have gone back on a promise to keep the front of Berwick's 1874 Infirmary. Now proposing to keep only the tower. Architect John Starforth. Make your own #model in card. Petition. www.berwick-heritage.co.uk
#architecture #building #heritage
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553656
#architecture #building #heritage
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553656
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Northumbria NHS have gone back on a promise to keep the front of Berwick's 1874 Infirmary. Now proposing to keep only the tower. Architect John Starforth. Make your own #model in card. Petition. www.berwick-heritage.co.uk
#architecture #building #heritage
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553656
#architecture #building #heritage
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4553656
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Narcissus deficiens
Natures rock garden
Rodos 🇬🇷
Nov 25
Natures rock garden
Rodos 🇬🇷
Nov 25
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Narcissus deficiens
Natures rock garden
Rodos 🇬🇷
Nov 25
Natures rock garden
Rodos 🇬🇷
Nov 25
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If you enjoyed the Accidental Tour-ist, then perhaps you might put your ballot paper in the digital box? I'd be enormously grateful. I mean, there's bigger things in the word than this. But the really teeny tiny things also matter (to me).
peoplesbookprize.com/2025-categor...
peoplesbookprize.com/2025-categor...
Non-Fiction | Peoples Book Prize
peoplesbookprize.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you enjoyed the Accidental Tour-ist, then perhaps you might put your ballot paper in the digital box? I'd be enormously grateful. I mean, there's bigger things in the word than this. But the really teeny tiny things also matter (to me).
peoplesbookprize.com/2025-categor...
peoplesbookprize.com/2025-categor...
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
Really enjoying the talks this afternoon at the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference!
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
October 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Really enjoying the talks this afternoon at the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference!
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
So a train ticket from 1996 I’ve found in my second hand copy of Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years. I’d like to think it belonged to the person who’d bought the book when it was newly published and hope they enjoyed it and found it interesting.
August 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So a train ticket from 1996 I’ve found in my second hand copy of Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years. I’d like to think it belonged to the person who’d bought the book when it was newly published and hope they enjoyed it and found it interesting.
I have achieved the impossible and picked my one courgette 🤣🤣 from the allotment.
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
July 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I have achieved the impossible and picked my one courgette 🤣🤣 from the allotment.
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
As I have a long day, it's a bacon roll for breakfast; porchetta cure bacon from Turnbull's of Alnwick - absolutely delicious. Thoroughly recommend it if you're anywhere near Alnwick this summer!
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
As I have a long day, it's a bacon roll for breakfast; porchetta cure bacon from Turnbull's of Alnwick - absolutely delicious. Thoroughly recommend it if you're anywhere near Alnwick this summer!
Added another 10grms or so to this bobbin, grey masham dyed by @freyalyn.bsky.social for day 8 of #tourdefleece #TDF2025
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
July 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Added another 10grms or so to this bobbin, grey masham dyed by @freyalyn.bsky.social for day 8 of #tourdefleece #TDF2025
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
The last of my Scottish merino was plyed yesterday. #tourdefleece day 6.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The last of my Scottish merino was plyed yesterday. #tourdefleece day 6.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
Today’s Tour de Fleece work, Scottish merino as a two ply. #TDF2026 #tourdefleece
July 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Today’s Tour de Fleece work, Scottish merino as a two ply. #TDF2026 #tourdefleece
July 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I love it when little gems like this appear!!!
And I should again mention here my favourite slang version of “feeling like a fish out of water” from Rome dialect, which is me sento come Batman ar compleanno de li puffi. It means “I feel like Batman at a Smurfs’ birthday party”
June 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I love it when little gems like this appear!!!
Birdsfoot trefoil (I think) in the short turf at The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney earlier this week. #WildFlowerHour
June 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Birdsfoot trefoil (I think) in the short turf at The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney earlier this week. #WildFlowerHour
Slightly damp visit to the wonderful Ring of Brodgar, on a day carefully chosen to avoid the crowds!
June 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Slightly damp visit to the wonderful Ring of Brodgar, on a day carefully chosen to avoid the crowds!
I do like watching harbours, there’s always something happening even if I don’t know what’s going on. And just for now, the weather is pleasant.
June 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I do like watching harbours, there’s always something happening even if I don’t know what’s going on. And just for now, the weather is pleasant.
it's amazing what 3 hours at the allotment can do, planted courgettes, squashes and pumpkins, all a bit small, but as I can't get there for the next couple of weeks, better there than in pots, plus runner beans, beetroot, swiss chard, kohl rabi, pak choi, radicchio, radish, psb, now resting with tea
May 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
it's amazing what 3 hours at the allotment can do, planted courgettes, squashes and pumpkins, all a bit small, but as I can't get there for the next couple of weeks, better there than in pots, plus runner beans, beetroot, swiss chard, kohl rabi, pak choi, radicchio, radish, psb, now resting with tea
No idea why there’s a cannon here, next to the river in Morpeth. Not sure who it’s protecting what from, though it is near the castle.
May 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
No idea why there’s a cannon here, next to the river in Morpeth. Not sure who it’s protecting what from, though it is near the castle.