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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 1d

The Drookit Doo’s a daft yin,
And no that guid at singin.
It stauns up on the auld belltooer
In rain, its feathers wringin.

Read aboot mair Fykie Fleein Things here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/primary/poem... and listen tae actor Michael McHardie read the poem oot. #Scotstober

Fykie Fleein Things – ScotsHoose Yaldi

www.scotshooseyaldi.com

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 4d

Exploring the area around Kirk o Shotts and Kate's Well: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/k...

Kirk o Shotts and Kate’s Well

The Kirk o Shotts If you’ve ever travelled along the Lanarkshire stretch of the M8 motorway, you have probably noticed the Kirk o Shotts. I’ve enjoyed riding to the Kirk and I’ve …

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 4d

Check oot the baddie's t-shirt...

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 4d

There's a richt scunner oot tae dwang the peacefu craiturs o the planet Tunnix. But Major Tam the Space Polisman is on the case. #Scotstober Fu Eejit Street comic here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/wp-content/u...

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 6d

A bike ride to Peebles, passing through the railway tunnel where CTR Wilson performed a cosmic ray experiment: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/p...

Peebles and an interesting tunnel

One day in October 2018, I decided to cycle to the border town of Peebles. I passed through the villages of Carnwath and Elsrickle, and admired the whalebone arch at Netherurd, where they used to h…

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 7d

Wha remembers the ticker tape machine frae schuil physics? Yaisin ane wis a richt footer and maist o the time yir teacher tellt ye whit ye should o fund oot. #Scotstober

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 8d

Afore he met ma mither, ma faither crashed this braw motor jist ootside Carluke. He wis in sic a bad way that they gied him the last richts at the hospital, jist in case he wis Catholic. #Scotstober

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 10d

"Weel Ah mind the day oor Gregor wis capped. Jist as the man pit the thing on his heid, a shaft o light lit him up." So my granny used to say, and it was an entirely accurate description, but for one detail. She wasn't there and had constructed the memory from my mum's account, and from this photo.

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 12d

Eejit Street 4 - the latest edition of the Scots language comic for bairns - is out now. I've scripted some stories for it, along with Thomas and Sara Clark and Matthew Fitt. You can download it here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/.../Eejit-St... and schools will be able to order free hard copies.

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 12d

Revisiting the Coalburn paths. Not surprisingly, they're even better when it's not chucking it down as it was here: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c... And look! A picnic bench where you can sit and talk about the interesting geology you see about you.

Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 15d

The Tinto Hill Tea Room has been around for as long as I can remember, but in the last few years has had quite restricted opening hours. It's now under new management and is open every day except Wednesday. The menu looked quite imaginative, but I only stopped for coffee and a scone.

Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 17d

I don't do a lot of sneering, but if I was to take it up big time, I'd sneer most at people who sneer at mothers.

Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 17d

Beautiful morning. It was frosty when I woke up but by the time I was out riding there were only a few patches in the shade. Cold enough, though, to merit long cycling tights for the first time in a few months.

Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 25d

A non-historian tries to find out about a forgotten Lanarkshire battle: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/m...

Morningside – Lanarkshire’s forgotten battle?

A few years ago, I posted a picture of the ruined Auchterhead Farm on Twitter (as was). I got a few likes and the comment, ‘There was a battle up there.’ Haud on, whit? If there had been a ba…

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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · Sep 7

Stop Press !!

🙋 Closing date for our 'My Favourite Bike Ride' #SpokesComp has been extended to

... Sunday 21 September

with judging in early October

DETAILS --> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/09/spok...

@edi.bike @rru.bsky.social @tracygriffen.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @christhompsonex.bsky.social

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 27d

Can we please have a Bluesky repeat of your Stevie Smith/Stevie Naesmith joke? Best Twitter (as was) joke I ever read.

Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 30

Tried out the next section of the NCN74 to Douglas path- Coalburn to Poneil. A highlight was Wallace's Cave, as much for the striking geology as the alleged connection with the Scottish hero. See here: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c... Loved it, despite the dreich weather.

Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 29

I made a clickbait anagram app in the shed... this happened!

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's one of the hop on/hop off fleet. More here: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n... (and Dales does still exist).

No mean citybike

Glasgow has a fleet of hop-on hop-off hire bikes, both electric and acoustic. The unassisted ones are well-equipped, heavyish, comfortable beasties with 7 speed hub gears. On a damp day when I also…

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 27

A 'time to kill in Glasgow' ride on a hire bike, along the canal to Kirkintilloch.

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 26

More Glasgow hire bike fun- St. Peter's Seminary: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/a...

Another Glasgow hire bike adventure – St. Peter’s Seminary

In October 2024, my wife underwent a knee replacement operation in a hospital off Glasgow’s Great Western Road. To take my mind off what she was going through, I picked up a bike from the grounds o…

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 23

Some Glasgow hire bike stories: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n...

No mean citybike

Glasgow has a fleet of hop-on hop-off hire bikes, both electric and acoustic. The unassisted ones are well-equipped, heavyish, comfortable beasties with 7 speed hub gears. On a damp day when I also…

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 22

Guardians of the Galaxy Light Instant Hot Chocolate - an ensemble group, including a racoon and a tree defend low calorie hot drinks from Ronan the Accuser.

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 22

Local to me - must have a look. Thanks to those who made it possible.

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · Aug 21

A ride to Crawfordjohn leads to me finding out about TV's most notorious ferret: walkridecarluke.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/c...

Crawfordjohn and a playful ferret

On rides to Muirkirk and Glenbuck I’d noticed a sign on the A70 between Douglas and Glespin pointing to Crawfordjohn. It was seven miles away, though somebody had tried to make it look as if it was…

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