LKHX
@lyndahaughney.bsky.social
Streetwalker, struggler, stravaiger, strawwoman
Fabricando fit faber.
Fabricando fit faber.
This book is so wise, and helpful, and relatable 🔥
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This book is so wise, and helpful, and relatable 🔥
1. It might be too fanciful to suggest that this armorial panel from the old Scottish Exchequer in Parliament Square shows a chessboard in the middle? (late 18th / early 19th C??)
2. The arms for the Instutute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, granted 1951.
2. The arms for the Instutute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, granted 1951.
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
1. It might be too fanciful to suggest that this armorial panel from the old Scottish Exchequer in Parliament Square shows a chessboard in the middle? (late 18th / early 19th C??)
2. The arms for the Instutute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, granted 1951.
2. The arms for the Instutute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, granted 1951.
1. Chartres Cathedral. The inscription reads “Window of Colin from the Royal Treasury” early 13thC
2. Exchequer of Ireland(Facsimiles of Irish Manuscripts, volume III, plate xxxvii.) 1414??
2. Exchequer of Ireland(Facsimiles of Irish Manuscripts, volume III, plate xxxvii.) 1414??
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
1. Chartres Cathedral. The inscription reads “Window of Colin from the Royal Treasury” early 13thC
2. Exchequer of Ireland(Facsimiles of Irish Manuscripts, volume III, plate xxxvii.) 1414??
2. Exchequer of Ireland(Facsimiles of Irish Manuscripts, volume III, plate xxxvii.) 1414??
Richard Fitzneale served as Lord High Treasurer of the Exchequer to Henry II from 1156 to 1196 (following in the footsteps of his father and great uncle) and wrote this in his Dialogus de Scaccario:
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Richard Fitzneale served as Lord High Treasurer of the Exchequer to Henry II from 1156 to 1196 (following in the footsteps of his father and great uncle) and wrote this in his Dialogus de Scaccario:
As poor Rachel Reeves gets hammered for slightly misnaming the chess championship she won 35 years ago, it’s nice to remember that the word Exchequer comes from the Latin ‘scaccarium’ or chessboard, due to the chequered cloth the medieval Treasury used for auditing Sheriffs’ accounts. (Link in alt)
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As poor Rachel Reeves gets hammered for slightly misnaming the chess championship she won 35 years ago, it’s nice to remember that the word Exchequer comes from the Latin ‘scaccarium’ or chessboard, due to the chequered cloth the medieval Treasury used for auditing Sheriffs’ accounts. (Link in alt)
It’s like those fables when the genie grants you three wishes… and you have to ask for *exactly* the right thing otherwise you end up with an angry wife and a sausage stuck to your nose.
Even the empty chessboard is wrong!!
Even the empty chessboard is wrong!!
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It’s like those fables when the genie grants you three wishes… and you have to ask for *exactly* the right thing otherwise you end up with an angry wife and a sausage stuck to your nose.
Even the empty chessboard is wrong!!
Even the empty chessboard is wrong!!
If autonomous vehicles are privately owned, but parked at that mystical ‘elsewhere’… then the displaced parking problems are going to be considerable, and could well exacerbate certain inequalities.
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If autonomous vehicles are privately owned, but parked at that mystical ‘elsewhere’… then the displaced parking problems are going to be considerable, and could well exacerbate certain inequalities.
Scots has a rich & colourful lexicon, which I love, but try as I might, I can’t see it as more than something between a register & a dialect, in its living form. I’d have done one Act for Gaelic, & another for Scots, Doric, Orcadian, Shetlandic, & Galloway Irish, etc #youcanallblockmenow
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Scots has a rich & colourful lexicon, which I love, but try as I might, I can’t see it as more than something between a register & a dialect, in its living form. I’d have done one Act for Gaelic, & another for Scots, Doric, Orcadian, Shetlandic, & Galloway Irish, etc #youcanallblockmenow
It’s not on my list #displacementactivity but today I mowed the lawn and tidied the garden, trimmed the hedge, refreshed the hanging basket, tidied the patio, & uprooted* MANY brambles - why did no one tell me it was so easy in December?!
* well, not all entirely uprooted, I’m assuming nothing 😬🧟
* well, not all entirely uprooted, I’m assuming nothing 😬🧟
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It’s not on my list #displacementactivity but today I mowed the lawn and tidied the garden, trimmed the hedge, refreshed the hanging basket, tidied the patio, & uprooted* MANY brambles - why did no one tell me it was so easy in December?!
* well, not all entirely uprooted, I’m assuming nothing 😬🧟
* well, not all entirely uprooted, I’m assuming nothing 😬🧟
A8 The Christmas Sparkle in Dr Neil’s Garden this weekend is worth checking out! #EdinburghHour
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A8 The Christmas Sparkle in Dr Neil’s Garden this weekend is worth checking out! #EdinburghHour
It’s not an idea, but a wee plug for the Vittoria Group vittoriarestaurant.com who have started giving away £1,000 per month in cash or gifts after 55 years living and working Edinburgh. Nice to see! #EdinburghHour
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It’s not an idea, but a wee plug for the Vittoria Group vittoriarestaurant.com who have started giving away £1,000 per month in cash or gifts after 55 years living and working Edinburgh. Nice to see! #EdinburghHour
Multitasking with chess as childcare isn’t really working!
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Multitasking with chess as childcare isn’t really working!
I’ve been redecorating our small living room*, & it’s like chess - after 3 decisions, 120M more open up - cost, colour, fabric, shape, pattern, size etc etc etc. You can’t see it in advance, & you have to live with it a long time.
It’s been like the ultimate in ADHD for me.
*parlour/study/TV room
It’s been like the ultimate in ADHD for me.
*parlour/study/TV room
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I’ve been redecorating our small living room*, & it’s like chess - after 3 decisions, 120M more open up - cost, colour, fabric, shape, pattern, size etc etc etc. You can’t see it in advance, & you have to live with it a long time.
It’s been like the ultimate in ADHD for me.
*parlour/study/TV room
It’s been like the ultimate in ADHD for me.
*parlour/study/TV room
Not sure about the wisdom of holding a tray bake sale in a school that has a stomach flu outbreak, but there you have it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not sure about the wisdom of holding a tray bake sale in a school that has a stomach flu outbreak, but there you have it.
It gets high praise! Peter Bradshaw calls it “one of the most purely lovable films in British cinema history”.
If I can get a sofa before Xmas Eve, I’ll watch it then!
youtu.be/EVXs_bUXQ_8?...
If I can get a sofa before Xmas Eve, I’ll watch it then!
youtu.be/EVXs_bUXQ_8?...
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It gets high praise! Peter Bradshaw calls it “one of the most purely lovable films in British cinema history”.
If I can get a sofa before Xmas Eve, I’ll watch it then!
youtu.be/EVXs_bUXQ_8?...
If I can get a sofa before Xmas Eve, I’ll watch it then!
youtu.be/EVXs_bUXQ_8?...
Great story about the first time #Gaelic is heard in a feature film.
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Great story about the first time #Gaelic is heard in a feature film.
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ll maybe try to give this a watch over the Christmas period.
I wondered if it had influenced Compton Mackenzie in Whisky Galore, but I see he’d already written Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
With the 25% discount*, child & I could 🔁 to London with 2 bed nights for £367.50.
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
With the 25% discount*, child & I could 🔁 to London with 2 bed nights for £367.50.
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
I wonder how many people who are travelling in a twosome (few would want to share with a stranger, I think) are attracted by that price point, + bunkbed.
Seems really finely balanced.
*outwith holidays oc 🫤
Torduff Reservoir and the Firth of Forth #todayswalk
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Torduff Reservoir and the Firth of Forth #todayswalk
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
From V3 of VW’s diary:
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From V3 of VW’s diary:
The people at Argonaut Books have written an open letter to CEO James Daunt calling on him to reverse his decision to open a 6th Edinburgh @waterstones.bsky.social within a few metres of their independent shop. It’s picking up signatures at a lively rate: ✍🏼
c.org/X7zT8nyC2W
c.org/X7zT8nyC2W
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The people at Argonaut Books have written an open letter to CEO James Daunt calling on him to reverse his decision to open a 6th Edinburgh @waterstones.bsky.social within a few metres of their independent shop. It’s picking up signatures at a lively rate: ✍🏼
c.org/X7zT8nyC2W
c.org/X7zT8nyC2W
I think we’re going to look at the King’s Indian Attack today, but this is some great marketing copy for the Defence:
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I think we’re going to look at the King’s Indian Attack today, but this is some great marketing copy for the Defence: