Howie
@auld-howie.bsky.social
Howe o' the Mearns || Photography || OCA/OU || History || Art || Metal/Folk/Classical || Fowklore || Ootdoors || Mounth Walker || Lift || Teuchter || 🌳🌲🌳 || 🏹
Reposted by Howie
Little Hampden, Brickfield Road, #Stonehaven. Always has some @afc.co.uk graffiti on the army cadets' wall. It's where we scored goals for our clubs and country as kids.
#jumpersforgoalposts
#jumpersforgoalposts
October 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Little Hampden, Brickfield Road, #Stonehaven. Always has some @afc.co.uk graffiti on the army cadets' wall. It's where we scored goals for our clubs and country as kids.
#jumpersforgoalposts
#jumpersforgoalposts
Reposted by Howie
Strider and the hobbits reach the edge of the Chetwood and walk out into the open country. The ground here is lower than in the Bree-land behind them, and is beginning to get boggy.
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Strider and the hobbits reach the edge of the Chetwood and walk out into the open country. The ground here is lower than in the Bree-land behind them, and is beginning to get boggy.
Reposted by Howie
📷 Richard Misrach
September 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
📷 Richard Misrach
Reposted by Howie
If you’d like to read my Anne Brown Essay Prize–shortlisted piece, you can find it at the link below.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-stone-...
#Essay #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Writing #Reading
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-stone-...
#Essay #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Writing #Reading
The Stone Is Heavy In My Hands — My Essay Shortlisted for the Anne Brown Prize
Today was the Anne Brown Essay Prize awards ceremony, which I attended as a shortlistee.
kristiedegaris.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
If you’d like to read my Anne Brown Essay Prize–shortlisted piece, you can find it at the link below.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-stone-...
#Essay #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Writing #Reading
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-stone-...
#Essay #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Writing #Reading
Reposted by Howie
The King of Strathclyde visits a Hogback workshop in Govan to oversee the progress of the latest carving (10th century)
Come along to the Govan Stones today to check out some finished examples. We’re open 11am-4pm every day until the end of October!
Free entry as always
Come along to the Govan Stones today to check out some finished examples. We’re open 11am-4pm every day until the end of October!
Free entry as always
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The King of Strathclyde visits a Hogback workshop in Govan to oversee the progress of the latest carving (10th century)
Come along to the Govan Stones today to check out some finished examples. We’re open 11am-4pm every day until the end of October!
Free entry as always
Come along to the Govan Stones today to check out some finished examples. We’re open 11am-4pm every day until the end of October!
Free entry as always
Reposted by Howie
📷 Rinko Kawauchi
September 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📷 Rinko Kawauchi
Hudson, vet tells us he's to lose some weight. He's not overly happy at the 'meagre' supply of kibbles he gets before bedtime. He complains quite loudly.
June 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hudson, vet tells us he's to lose some weight. He's not overly happy at the 'meagre' supply of kibbles he gets before bedtime. He complains quite loudly.
Reposted by Howie
Watchmen from Amon Dîn reach Minas Tirith: Elves are riding toward the city, and are already approaching the walls of the Pelennor. ‘At last they have come,’ replies Aragorn. ‘Let all the City be made ready!’
June 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Watchmen from Amon Dîn reach Minas Tirith: Elves are riding toward the city, and are already approaching the walls of the Pelennor. ‘At last they have come,’ replies Aragorn. ‘Let all the City be made ready!’
Reposted by Howie
Looking at this one again tonight, one of my all-time favorites: Peter Henry Emerson / Gathering water lilies, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, 1885–86. Beautiful!
November 24, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Looking at this one again tonight, one of my all-time favorites: Peter Henry Emerson / Gathering water lilies, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, 1885–86. Beautiful!
Reposted by Howie
📷 Martine Franck, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 1977.
June 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📷 Martine Franck, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 1977.
Reposted by Howie
We are happy to report that one of our SSNS seminars from earlier this year - by Prof. Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm (Fryske Akademy) on 'Frisia and the Viking Age' - can now be rewatched on our YouTube channel!
SSNS Seminar - Prof. Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm - 'Frisia and the Viking Age'
YouTube video by Scottish Society for Northern Studies
www.youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We are happy to report that one of our SSNS seminars from earlier this year - by Prof. Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm (Fryske Akademy) on 'Frisia and the Viking Age' - can now be rewatched on our YouTube channel!
Bins have been emptied 🤗
January 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Bins have been emptied 🤗
Messages to put away, toilet to clean, hoovering, gym, then work later. Probably have dinner to cook too. Better get my erse in gear. Another cup of tea first though.
January 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Messages to put away, toilet to clean, hoovering, gym, then work later. Probably have dinner to cook too. Better get my erse in gear. Another cup of tea first though.
American Primeval has been rather good, one episode to go. Which reminds me, I really should wear waistcoats more often.
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
American Primeval has been rather good, one episode to go. Which reminds me, I really should wear waistcoats more often.
May have to have a beer. It is Hogmanay after all, I'm not working either, so should probably begin early.
December 31, 2024 at 1:04 PM
May have to have a beer. It is Hogmanay after all, I'm not working either, so should probably begin early.
Cropped up in my memories from 9 years ago. Early to mid-teens to early/mid-twenties.
December 29, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Cropped up in my memories from 9 years ago. Early to mid-teens to early/mid-twenties.
Family all away and the house is very quiet, even though they weren't noisy. Fire roaring, candles lit, book to read, Dirty Three keeping me company and was out for a short walk in the hills earlier.
December 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Family all away and the house is very quiet, even though they weren't noisy. Fire roaring, candles lit, book to read, Dirty Three keeping me company and was out for a short walk in the hills earlier.
Loungewear deployed, wine poured,fire on, cat comfy, time for a film with family.
December 26, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Loungewear deployed, wine poured,fire on, cat comfy, time for a film with family.
Aberdeen had a stinker in Ayrshire. Lots of sad sheep heading back north on a shite evening.
December 26, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Aberdeen had a stinker in Ayrshire. Lots of sad sheep heading back north on a shite evening.
Last piece of Christmas cake eaten, along with a slice of Wensleydale cheese. What next, I wonder. I may have to deploy the loungewaer soon.
a man in a blue and white striped shirt is sitting on a table
ALT: a man in a blue and white striped shirt is sitting on a table
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Last piece of Christmas cake eaten, along with a slice of Wensleydale cheese. What next, I wonder. I may have to deploy the loungewaer soon.
Woke myself up snoring on the sofa. Away to light the fire, I think it's time and I may have a beer.
December 26, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Woke myself up snoring on the sofa. Away to light the fire, I think it's time and I may have a beer.
Daughter and partner got me this for Christmas. Gandalf and Durin's Bane on the bridge of Khazad-dûm and a Tolkien's World cookbook, they know me too well. I'll be baking lembas bread in my new jumper 😄
December 26, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Daughter and partner got me this for Christmas. Gandalf and Durin's Bane on the bridge of Khazad-dûm and a Tolkien's World cookbook, they know me too well. I'll be baking lembas bread in my new jumper 😄