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Leid Freen
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Mostly I post photographs and Scots-language text (with English translations).

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Rokes an jeel i the simmer.

Rocks and ice in summer.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #icecream #van #rocks #hill #people #trafficsign #grass #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland.
A monochrome photograph. In the bottom-left foreground an ice-cream van is parked in front of a fence behind which is a, largely rocky, hillside. The van, in front of which is a rock with a triangular ‘roundabout’ traffic sign, is facing the camera. To the right of the van a few people are queuing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Beckin.

Bowing.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #man #tree #hill #grass #sky
A colour photograph showing a grassy hillside. A tree and the small figure of a man can be seen – partly against a blue, cloudless sky. The man is bowing his head to look at his phone and the tree is leaning towards him.
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Anither railins owerby.

Another set of railings over there.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #railings #grass #gravel #building #Edinburgh #Scotland
A colour photograph showing a view through the upper parts of some dark-green railings towards another set of railings at the entrance to a tunnel on a grassy slope in the distance. In between is a gravel surface. Also visible in the distance, on the right-hand side, is part of a pillar.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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A bit licht an shedda in Embro.

A bit of light and shadow in Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #gable #whitewash #chimney #shadow #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland
A colour photograph showing an old whitewashed building which is roughly U-shaped, has a red roof and has two windowed gable walls – each topped by a chimney – facing the camera at an angle. The right-hand gable wall is in shadow. The sky is blue and cloudless.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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‘A mile an a bittock, a mile or twa’.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #woman #man #people #summer #walking #path #grass #hill #poetry
A colour photograph. In the foreground, a man and a woman, dressed for summer, are walking side by side away from the camera and up a curving, gently sloping path through grass. In the background is a hill with pale blue sky above it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Quine an Cailleach.

Young woman and older woman.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #women #man #people #wall #face
A colour photograph. In the background is a grey wall. In the middle ground, on the left, a young woman is walking in the general direction of the camera. She is partly obscured by the shoulder and arm of a man, the rest of whom is out of shot. In the bottom-right foreground, roughly one half of an older woman’s face/head is visible.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The Naitional Moniment o Scotlan, Embro.

The National Monument of Scotland, Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #monument #Edinburgh #Scotland #hill #people #grass #sky.
A monochrome photograph showing a very large monument inspired by Classical Greek architecture. People can be seen on and around its base, which supports twelve Doric columns topped by an entablature.
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Brae-face tae braeheid.

Hillside to hilltop.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #hillside #bush #grass #hilltop #monuments #sky #Edinburgh #Scotland.
A monochrome photograph. In the right foreground is a bush while to its left, and extending beyond it, is a grassy slope. In the distance is a hilltop on which can be seen two monuments and some trees.
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Brattach an biggin. A doot this is a compaingen piece tae the twa limns ablow.

Flag and building. I suppose this is a companion piece to the two photographs below.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colourphotography #building #flag #flowers #horns #roof #sky #Scotland #architecture
A colour photograph. In the background is the upper part of an old whitewashed building. In the foreground, but appearing to fly above the building and against a blue sky, is a yellow flag hanging from a more-or-less horizontal pole. On the flag are three representations of a red-and-yellow flower tied to a blue-and-red horn.
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The lums, the lift an aw that.

The chimneys, the sky and all that.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #colourphotography #buildings #roofs #chimneys #sky #structures #architecture
A monochrome photograph looking up at the sky and taking in the upper stories of part of an old building on the left, and, on the right, part of the side and underside of a structure supporting temporary seating. A monochrome photograph looking up at the sky and taking in the upper stories of part of an old whitewashed building in the background on the left, and, on the right in the foreground, part of the metal ornamentation of a building opposite.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Burds on the riggin.

Birds on the roof.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #wall #buildings #roof #birds #tower #sky
A monochrome photograph. In the foreground is the upper part of a wall. Over the top of the wall can be seen the roof of an old building with several birds sitting on it – mainly on the ridge. To the left of the building an old tower is visible in the distance.
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Jooglin thae lowes.

Juggling those flames.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #fire #flames #juggling #streetperformer #man #people #crowd
A colour photograph of a man giving a performance that involves the juggling of fire torches. He stands on a platform surrounded by a crowd. In the background are the columns and windows of a building.
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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No the Saxties.

Not the Sixties.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #art #colour #colourphotography #monochrome #building #glass #architecture
A photograph showing a top corner of a modern building. Its walls are glass and the sky has been replaced by an area of green.
October 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Tarpitin daffin. Signin durin an enterteenment on the Royal Mile, Embro.

Interpreting fun. Signing during an entertainment on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #Edinburgh #RoyalMile #Scotland #signlanguage #BSL #deaf
A colour photograph showing a woman in a ‘BSL’ T-shirt who is using sign language. In the foreground are parts of the backs of heads of people in the crowd that she is standing in front of. Behind her is the grey wall of a building as well as black railings.
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Cloints an reid.

Logs and red.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #art #colour #colourphotography #monochrome #logs #wood #red
A photograph showing two monochrome logs on a red background. A cross section of each log is facing the viewer.
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Stane an leafs.

Stone and leaves.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #leaves #stone #autumn #fall
A colour photograph dominated by a top-down view of a semicircular stone structure. The bottom of the structure's ‘bowl’ contains brown and yellowish leaves.
October 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Hauflins an hoose-en.

Teenagers and gable end.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #boys #teenagers #gableend #street #buildings #graffiti #tenements
A monochrome photograph showing two teenage boys walking along a pavement past a fenced-off piece of derelict land. Beyond the land is the gable end of a tenement, the lower part of which is covered in graffiti. On the other side of the street from these tenements is another row of tenements.
October 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Fascists maunna git steekin wir paurliament.

Fascists must not be allowed to close our parliament.

#photography #monochrome #blue #parliament #ScottishParliament #Scotland #Holyrood #fascism #democracy #independence
A blue-tinted monochrome photograph. Parts of the Scottish Parliament complex can be seen through panes of glass that form the top part of a wall. A long concrete structure intersects with the glass, casting diagonal shadows on the wall. The sky is cloudless.
October 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Fowk’ll aye be peedie by a brae or a muntain.

People’ll always be tiny compared to a hill or a mountain.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scotstober #photography #monochrome #people #men #hills #mountain #walking #sky #grass
A monochrome photograph showing two young men on a hill. They are in the distance and look very small against the clear sky. Beyond them, and to the left, is another, somewhat taller, hill.
October 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Weel tae the gate.

Well on the way.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #man #hills #path #walking #sky #grass
A monochrome photograph showing a young man in the middle distance. He is on a path that cuts through grass and is walking away from the camera. To his left and ahead of him are hills. The sky is cloudless.
October 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Cawin a bike, speelin a brae.

Riding a bike, climbing a hill.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #bicycle #woman #hill #street #buildings #sky
A monochrome photograph showing a woman on a bike who has just arrived at the top of a hilly street lined with tenements.
September 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Whit can a bodie say?

What can one say?

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #mannequin #shop #window #reflection #suit #fashion #lane
A monochrome photograph showing a mannequin in a shop window. It is side-on to us and facing a part of the shop window that is beside a lane. Dressed in a man’s suit, the mannequin appears to be looking directly at its reflection.
September 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Ye widna need tae be blate in Glesca.

You had better not be shy in Glasgow.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #Glasgow #Scotland #street #people #man #women #music #dancing #guitar #phone
A colour photograph. A middle-aged man sings and plays acoustic guitar on a pedestrian precinct. In the space in front of him, three women, apparently on a night out, sing and dance. One of them seems to be pretending that her mobile phone is a microphone.
September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The heid bummer.

The boss.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #colourphotography #cone #bollards #path #park #weeds #fence #boss
A colour photograph showing a view down a path in a park. In the middle distance are three bollards, mostly black in colour. In the foreground is a bollard with an orange cone placed over it, hiding most of it. At the base of each bollard are grass, weeds and dead leaves.
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Drinking in
The data
Of decay
And swimming
In the overlaps
Of renewal.

#photography #monochrome #blue #poetry #poem #verse #stone #leaves #decay
A blue-tinted monochrome photograph. We are looking down at a stone base from which railings have been removed. The stone base extends diagonally through the image from the top right. Part of a dead branch lies on the stone. To the left of the stone, dead leaves lie on the ground.
September 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM