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Brendan Paddy
@bjpaddy.bsky.social
Looking to make the outdoors for everyone as director of Ramblers Scotland but these are personal views. Expect pics of walks, posts on politics/world news, risidual overseas aid and guest appearances by a small hairy murderer named Pixie.
Everything the paw touches is our Kingdom and that includes you man-cushion
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Our now traditional, non-traditional Burns Supper - haggis sliced & fried; neeps & tatties roasted, crushed & baked with butter; and a green interloper fried in pennance
January 25, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Holyrood #parkrun somehow delivering a view I've never noticed before even on a dreich January morning
January 24, 2026 at 9:28 AM
The ancient prophecy is once more fulfilled
January 23, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Edinburgh Phrenological Society mask collection on display at the national portrait gallery - like the hall of faces in Game of Thrones but real, creeper &, surprise, based on a deeply bigoted set of assumptions
January 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Today in 'surprisingly not Frank Zappa'
January 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
St Columba to the Picts: the usual pieties, presumably
The Picts to St Columba: sceptical boredom, apparently
January 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The stern piece of a Maori waka (canoe) at Kelvingrove, right next to an ornate Burmese carved elephant's tusk, because...why the hell not
January 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Slave owners in a place of public honour? How about a big red warning sign calling out that shit.
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Alastair Gray being very Alastair Gray
January 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM
So apparently playing the organ involves three keyboards, more knobs than a full US cabinet meeting, and two sets of pedals that require specialised footwear - heel-toe, heel-toe
January 17, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Is it comfortable? Well, no. Is it practical? Not remotely. Is it beautiful? I thought you'd never ask...
January 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM
A little outing to Glasgow
January 17, 2026 at 11:43 AM
The wrath of the cereal raptor has been unleashed
January 16, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Dawn being all dramatic over Blackford Hill in Edinburgh this morning
January 14, 2026 at 8:22 AM
First day back at work after a looong break - could be worse
January 12, 2026 at 8:43 AM
He makes the sun rise on the evil and the good, sends snow on the drain blockers and the drain unblockers
January 9, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Edinburgh just now
January 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Many years ago now but still a very happy memory - introducing the family to Glen Feshie
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Probably new only to me (and annoyingly can't find the creator to credit) but too good not to share because it genuinely lifted my mood on a cold dark morning
January 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Completely batshit in the best possible way - if someone were to suggest it's not actually a film about an obnoxiously self-confident & selfish Jewish table tennis star in '50s NYC but a secret order of ancient vampires, you'd find yourself at least briefly entertaining the proposition
January 4, 2026 at 10:24 AM
'Clear and cold' doesn't really do justice to how clear and cold it is out there right now
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Take care out there folks
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 AM
We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary fit,
sin' auld lang syne - Happy New Year from Edinburgh
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Craiglockhart sunset
December 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM