Mars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Bonnie Broukit Bairn”
A #Scots #poem for #EarthDay #EarthDay2025
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/bonnie-...

No-one should feel afraid to go to work, but this is the reality for far too many retail workers.

They deserve our respect, and the protection of the law.

Last year we asked almost 10,000 retail workers about their experiences of abuse, threats and violence at work. The results have been published today and they are shocking:

- 77% were verbally abused
- 53% were threatened
- 10% were assaulted

Real-life testimonies from the frontline of retail 👇

Checked in on Dudley Rd with the J Hopkins crew as pavement resurfacing gets underway. Huge thanks to the team for their hard work 👏🏼👏🏼 Good to hear positive feedback from local residents who are pleased to see these much-needed improvements #WhalleyRange #saferstreets

For #Hogmanay – Phil Cunningham plays & Paolo Nutini sings Robert Burns’s “Auld Lang Syne” to the original 18th-century tune
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtY...

“I ask you,” said Markheim, “for a Christmas present, and you give me this—this damned reminder of years, and sins and follies—this hand-conscience!”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Markheim”

Download the free ebook:
🗡️ A Lodging for the Night
🪞 Markheim
💀 The Body-Snatcher
asls.org.uk/publications...

“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English.”

James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec
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