Leslie Burgher
@leslie-burgher.bsky.social
Architect from Orkney, amateur photographer, Honorary Consul for Norway
January 19, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Uggi bit two more books so now we have FOUR BITTEN COPIES TO GIVE AWAY!
I took pictures, of course. I’ll select the four winners tonight (Iceland time).
Also, happy pub day to paperback Night Guest!
I took pictures, of course. I’ll select the four winners tonight (Iceland time).
Also, happy pub day to paperback Night Guest!
December 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Uggi bit two more books so now we have FOUR BITTEN COPIES TO GIVE AWAY!
I took pictures, of course. I’ll select the four winners tonight (Iceland time).
Also, happy pub day to paperback Night Guest!
I took pictures, of course. I’ll select the four winners tonight (Iceland time).
Also, happy pub day to paperback Night Guest!
Aurora over Deerness
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Aurora over Deerness
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Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence.
From: Yes, Prime Minister.
From: Yes, Prime Minister.
September 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence.
From: Yes, Prime Minister.
From: Yes, Prime Minister.
We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
August 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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He spoke: "As if the geysers of anger had spurted out of the ground unbidden and not as a result of politicians tampering with the fire hydrants." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on the asylum hotel protests. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
'We are not a soft touch; nor do we take more than our fair share of migrants'
SKIMMING news programmes on the recent hate-fests outside asylum hotels in Epping and Falkirk, I stumbled across a clip of the former Conservative…
www.heraldscotland.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
He spoke: "As if the geysers of anger had spurted out of the ground unbidden and not as a result of politicians tampering with the fire hydrants." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on the asylum hotel protests. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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If an MP hears her constituents can’t afford a week in a hotel maybe she should focus on our wages and living standards rather than reassure them she’s trying to stop anyone else getting a stay for free
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If an MP hears her constituents can’t afford a week in a hotel maybe she should focus on our wages and living standards rather than reassure them she’s trying to stop anyone else getting a stay for free
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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This is election year in Norway and anyone eligible to vote for the National or Sami Parliaments (Storting or sameting) can vote in person at the Consulate in Bridge Street. Contact us via www.leslieburgher.co.uk/norway and arrange to vote by the end of August to ensure that your vote is counted
August 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is election year in Norway and anyone eligible to vote for the National or Sami Parliaments (Storting or sameting) can vote in person at the Consulate in Bridge Street. Contact us via www.leslieburgher.co.uk/norway and arrange to vote by the end of August to ensure that your vote is counted
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Today at the Consulate we are flying the flag to celebrate St Olaf's Day. Norway's patron saint is commemorated by this statue in St Magnus Cathedral.
July 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today at the Consulate we are flying the flag to celebrate St Olaf's Day. Norway's patron saint is commemorated by this statue in St Magnus Cathedral.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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And we left our beds in the dark
And we drove a cart to the hill
And we buried the jar of ale in the bog
And our small blades glittered in the dayspring
And we tore dark squares, thick pages
From the Book of Fire…
—George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting”
published in Selected Poems: 1954–1992
#poetry
And we drove a cart to the hill
And we buried the jar of ale in the bog
And our small blades glittered in the dayspring
And we tore dark squares, thick pages
From the Book of Fire…
—George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting”
published in Selected Poems: 1954–1992
#poetry
July 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
And we left our beds in the dark
And we drove a cart to the hill
And we buried the jar of ale in the bog
And our small blades glittered in the dayspring
And we tore dark squares, thick pages
From the Book of Fire…
—George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting”
published in Selected Poems: 1954–1992
#poetry
And we drove a cart to the hill
And we buried the jar of ale in the bog
And our small blades glittered in the dayspring
And we tore dark squares, thick pages
From the Book of Fire…
—George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting”
published in Selected Poems: 1954–1992
#poetry
Oh dear. It seems Mr Netanyahu may have mistimed his nomination...
July 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Oh dear. It seems Mr Netanyahu may have mistimed his nomination...
Fabulous start to St Magnus International Festival last night, with Nikita Lukinov and Resol String Quartet in the Cathedral. Then a drive home with the sun still an hour and a half from setting at 9pm. There's no better place to be than Orkney on a midsummer weekend.
June 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Fabulous start to St Magnus International Festival last night, with Nikita Lukinov and Resol String Quartet in the Cathedral. Then a drive home with the sun still an hour and a half from setting at 9pm. There's no better place to be than Orkney on a midsummer weekend.
Ever get the feeling that you're being watched?
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ever get the feeling that you're being watched?
Ever get the feeling that you're being watched?
May 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ever get the feeling that you're being watched?
Moment of zen on the beach last night at 10.45pm. The quid pro quo for those long winter nights at 59 degrees North.
May 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Moment of zen on the beach last night at 10.45pm. The quid pro quo for those long winter nights at 59 degrees North.
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Even though I daily drum for learning foreign languages (& with them about countries, customs, people, & history), we have, need, & use other ways to express ourselves. We think of communication as words, but it's so much more: gestures, pictures, music...
#GoodMorning, everyone.
#GoodMorning, everyone.
March 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Even though I daily drum for learning foreign languages (& with them about countries, customs, people, & history), we have, need, & use other ways to express ourselves. We think of communication as words, but it's so much more: gestures, pictures, music...
#GoodMorning, everyone.
#GoodMorning, everyone.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
February 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Sometimes Amazon, I wonder if you really know me at all...
February 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sometimes Amazon, I wonder if you really know me at all...
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O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!
—Robert Burns, “To a Louse”
@luathpress.bsky.social, illus. Bob Dewar
#BurnsNight
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To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!
—Robert Burns, “To a Louse”
@luathpress.bsky.social, illus. Bob Dewar
#BurnsNight
luath.co.uk/products/poe...
January 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!
—Robert Burns, “To a Louse”
@luathpress.bsky.social, illus. Bob Dewar
#BurnsNight
luath.co.uk/products/poe...
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!
—Robert Burns, “To a Louse”
@luathpress.bsky.social, illus. Bob Dewar
#BurnsNight
luath.co.uk/products/poe...
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Legend has it that when Microsoft originally showed “Clippy” their virtual assistant to Bill Gates, his immediate reaction was “Oh. Ah. Right… How do you turn that guy off?” and maybe we should have seen this all coming.
January 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Legend has it that when Microsoft originally showed “Clippy” their virtual assistant to Bill Gates, his immediate reaction was “Oh. Ah. Right… How do you turn that guy off?” and maybe we should have seen this all coming.