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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻

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A fan of ginger beer; walking on the beach; thinly spread vegemite on hot, buttered toast; real coffee; writing; theatre; early modern Scottish history; sunsets that leave me breathless; warm hearths on wintry days and warm hearts most every day; cheese.

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 1d

If you were so minded, & able to offer support:
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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 1d

A fun afternoon spent recording at Radio Scotland with the always fab Louise 😊

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 3d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 3d

And heaven forfend we end up with a society of articulate, critical thinkers.... That would never do. 🙄

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 6d

I feel this is the end of a beautiful friendship....

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, Eamonn's wife is becoming ABC. Well done 'woman'...
Seriously, @skynewsrss.bsky.social ???
#EverydaySexism
Meanwhile, congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullally on news of her appointment.

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 9d

Fun day at work, which included welcoming a new member to one of our wee rural schools. The Gruffalo has landed... 😊

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 14d

But think of the exposure... 🙄

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, mate. It's grim out there in academia. Sorry, friend.

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 15d

Yay!! That's brilliant news 👏👏👏👏

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 15d

But villains are much more interesting... so, there's that.

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 15d

Another glorious day, another day out in the big office.
Southern Uplands... near Crawfordjohn

Glen in Southern Uplands by Crawfordjohn

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 15d

I'll never vote for them as I was in Uni when they sold students down the river re. tuition fees.

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 16d

'immersive' and 'crematorium' - two words that don't sit particularly comfortably together. At least it'll be gloriously warm as the days and nights get colder...

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 17d

Out in the big office today and paused a moment to take in the view of the glen and the Clyde. Glorious autumn day in the Southern Uplands.
Posted as a timeline 'breather' 😊

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 18d

Neil, the writing was on the wall long before this, when the UK Gov't broke international law & stripped Shamima Begum of her citizenship, causing her to become stateless.
Reform are just following that path to its natural end.

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 20d

'Hard Left' = basic human decency, compassion, care, and the commonweal... 🙄

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 20d

That's so impressive. 'mon the Brownies!! 👏👏👏👏

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 21d

Excellent! Glad you're here☺️

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 23d

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 23d

In the course of today's visits:
met an adorable hedgehoglet named Maisie who sat on the kitchen table by my cuppa, occasionally adding a thoughtful snuffle to the conversation. Elsewhere, a chat about chickens & some philosophising on troublesome cocks. All in a day's work & it's great being back!

Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 26d

Yes. I'll be trying to do some detective work. The church building closed in 1994, so I suspect as items were being put into storage, put into 'a safe place', etc., that it was moved at that time. Prior to that, I'm assuming it was just kept in the church.
The oldest com. cup we have is from 1692

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 26d

I know, right? Totally out of the blue. Really chuffed.

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 26d

Post church morning tea surpise: the return of the Crawford (Crawfurd) Kirk communion pitcher from 1764. Apparently, someone in the village was doing a clear out of their house, came across it, & handed it in to an elder. How cool is that?!

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 27d

Oh, how wonderful!!

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