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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 6h

Just back from the last show of Edwyn Collins's last tour, in Edinburgh, his birthplace. An incredibly moving show, packed with favourites and hits. And the beginning of the encore, where he played 'Low Expectations' and 'Home Again' was absolutely emotionally devastating.

A seated Edwyn Collins, singing next to his son, standing, in front of his band. The backdrop says "Edwyn", in the style of the Elvis Comeback Show backdrop.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 1d

The fight itself is significant, but what's even more significant is what the fight says about my enemies

Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 1d

I like English degrees and I like apprenticeships. But which one is better? Only one way to find out: FIGHT.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 1d

I like English degrees and I like apprenticeships. But which one is better? Only one way to find out: FIGHT.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 1d

Pitting English degrees against apprenticeships is so facile and reductive but everything has to be pitted against something else nowadays We live in the age of the zero-sum game.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life

What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

So, happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys – who had gone to bed the three previous nights “in some pain”, “in great pain”, and “beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be”

Diary of Samuel Pepys, 7 October 1663: I did keep my bed; and my pain continued on me mightily, that I keeped within all day in great pain, and could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr Hollyards, but he was not at home; and so home again. And whether the coach did me good or no I know not, but having a good fire in my chamber, I begun to break six or seven small and great farts; and so to bed and lay in good ease all night, and pissed pretty well in the morning, but no more wind came as it used to do plentifully, after it once begun, nor any inclination to stool.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 2d

This is the essay that won the Anne Brown prize. It's called Firle, it's by Tamara Fulcher and it's totally brilliant. www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/firle-b...

Wigtown Book Festival | Firle by Tamara Fulcher

Winner of the Anne Brown Essay Prize 2025

www.wigtownbookfestival.com

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 2d

"All the headlines called her a 'tycoon', but a closer look at her company accounts revealed only her ego was supersized"

www.heraldscotland.com/poli...

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 2d

learn to edit films, with me, in Edinburgh - for your autumn self-improvement needs

4 week course - £20 a session - or free if you are an ECVS member (membership is £50 a year)

edinburghcinevideosociety.substack.com/p/learn-some...

Learn something new...

Weekend course in film editing

edinburghcinevideosociety.substack.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘It’s more than a pretty backdrop’: crime writer Ann Cleeves on the magic of Orkney in Scotland

With her latest book, the author moves detective Jimmy Perez from Shetland to Orkney, where she was inspired by the deep history, huge skies and warm people

www.theguardian.com

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 3d

It was so good, wasn't it? Do you know what I kept thinking? In other hands this material could have been disastrous, but they pitched it all - the words, the music, the acting, the production - just right. I cried most of the way through.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Restored Hogarth murals at London hospital open to public for first time

St Bartholomew’s hopes 18th-century satirist’s two large-scale paintings will become a must-see for art fans They had remained almost unseen for 300 years, but now two of William Hogarth’s masterpiece murals are available to the public for the first time. The North Wing at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London, which contains The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan – two large-scale murals by the British painter – has opened after a £9.5m restoration project. Continue reading...

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 3d

CHAPEL!! OF!! PELVISES!!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

www.theguardian.com

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 3d

Very much enjoyed hearing @damianbarr.bsky.social talk about his new book The Two Roberts at the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading it and hopeful that the exhibition of their work makes it to Scotland.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 3d

A Snail of Two Cities
For Whom the Shell Tolls
The Adventures of Shell-lock Holmes
The Scarlet Pimpershell
Frankenslime
The Slime of the Ancient Mariner

You can fill in the rest...

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 3d

We have no cats today but say hello to the library car park snail. 🐌

We think he was on his way to borrow a book but he's not arrived yet.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 4d

Haha, my TV viewing was strictly vetted but I was allowed to read anything I could lay my hands on. I have not read The Surprise of Cremona though. It sounds fabulous and I’ve just come across an interview with ET headlined Remembrance of Flings Past which is pretty good!

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 4d

There's something about the subtle abstraction in Rose Ferraby's landscapes that always draws me in. I have a similar response to Paul Nash's work on the same subject almost a century earlier.

Downland: Art & the Archaeological Imagination: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 4d

It’s terrifying. I know you’ve been following for a long time and warning about it.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t read that. But the Diddakoi was one of my top five children’s books. And, as a teenager, I loved The Greengage Summer and The Peacock Spring. I was probably too young to read the Peacock Spring too.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps the sisters won’t stay long, either…

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