Peigi MacKillop
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Peigi MacKillop
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Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, rescuer of orphan data sets. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
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Sadly, renewing this as my pinned post.

'The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness'.

Also; 'Under capitalism, man exploits man'.

John Kenneth Galbraith
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Just caught up with the excellent episode of BBC Radio4's Start the week, this one featuring @naomialderman.bsky.social on her new book 'Dont burn anyone at the stake today' & Cory Doctorow, on his 'Enshittification' - wonderfully hosted by @tds153.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Digital Futures and Information Crises
Cory Doctorow, Naomi Alderman and Oliver Moody with Tom Sutcliffe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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If you can't attend my event tomorrow at University of Glasgow, it s available to live stream at the link below

uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/8484798525...

It's going to be an interesting and lively conversation.

1pm start.

#Scotland #Glasgow #Reading #WritingCommunity #Books #Events #Accessibility
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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It’s two months away todayyyy! 20% of tickets already sold which blows my mind coz it’s big in there. Anyway. January 30th 2026.
TL;DR....Friday 30th January 2026 @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

An Evening with Sooz Kempner. All funds go towards lead-up and recovery from an operation on my damn larynx.

£10 TICKETS: www.outsavvy.com/event/31688/...
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Fosgail

Open your hand
It contains lifetimes
Shell-sand
It ground a bottle
Port, passed by sailors
On their last voyage
A dish, broken by a nervous maid
Screwing her eyes against dismissal
Lives, in your grasp
All of us sailing to the stars
Atoms beckoning
Back
To our white-hot birth

#PegsPoyums
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is lovely
Based upon images from Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Isle of Lewis. Oil on Fabriano, 70 x 100cm

#oilpainting #scotland #isleoflewis #outerhebrides
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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If anyone is looking for a present for a book lover who has an interest in the Anglo-Welsh border, its landscape, heritage and folklore I can highly recommend Sarah Siân Chave’s Hafren
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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You spin me right round . 😍
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Getting to Christmas I'm remembering my mum's magnificent Christmas dinners. She made her own marzipan from scratch, her own fruit cake, her own mincemeat. She was, as I am, not a fan of dried fruit so much of what she made was gifted, cakes posted out. #Christmas #ChristmasDinner 1/2
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Ok folks, I've got a task I need help with.

I need to know about high money value detector finds found since 2019 (not including tudor heart or Chew Valley hoard) from news reports, social media posts etc.

England & Wales only.

Please share, thank you 😊

#Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure #Detecting
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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A Car Dumped On The Beach Has To Be Outmanoeuvred By The Seacoalers, Lynemouth, Northumberland
Chris Killip, 1982

flashbak.com/chris-killip...
November 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Christmas Order dates are now up on my website.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-or...
Christmas Order Dates | Gail Myerscough
Avoid disappointment and get your orders in early!
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Beautiful shimmering silver. Perfect for the Christmas and winter season. Wonderful sparkling radiant dichroic glass necklace.

#handmade #etsy #giftideas

samphireglass.etsy.com/listing/4399...
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Today is a good day to remind you that I have lots of cool things for sale through my Etsy shop. LoTR subway maps, landscape drawings, & more.

Like this squirrel, or a grumpy raven! They looks great on a coffee cup, or as a print.

Who doesn't love a Christmas raven?
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Buidseach

A table scrubbed
with salt and sand
Wooden top washed up
bleached as bone
Tools hang on rusted hooks
Pushed into drystone
Edges shine
Drawn along a glittering gneiss
*
A tool hangs
Washed in sand
Hard whalebone
A clavicle
Dried in the cleit
Enough to cleave
The head
Of a bull

#PegsPoyums
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Got the cold / virus. Slumped in armchair. I watched 'A Scottish Cristmas secret', with Caprice, so you don't have to. Seriously, you dont have to.
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A long time since last looked at the Wikipedia page for Berneray, and remembering there's still a few of my 2004-09 pictures on there (below).

Higher quality pictures of, and around, the island are now taken by @eilidhcarr.bsky.social (former neighbour!) who runs Coralbox: coralbox.ecwid.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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That is beautiful
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ADAMSKI - Killer
YouTube video by OLD TAPES
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Jarvis! Once saw a Pulp gig they played behind venetian blinds. #totp
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Other half watching Annie Lennox. 'Is that no more I love youse'
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Please Stop

Stop again with 'battle'
Stop again with 'fight'
Others fight for us
Keep us upright
Dress and help
We just put one foot
In front of the other
Until
We can't

#PegsPoyums
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nothing more to be said here. #totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Great song, terrible lyrics. Surely this is a cover? #totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM