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Sandy Sneddon

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Christian, Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Retired. Good food & drink, films, music, travel. ♦️Airdrieonians FC♦️ Still Yes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 No DMs, keep the chat on the posts. No investment opportunities 🚫 No crypto 🚫 No illumenati nonsense 🚫 No Only Fans/dating/porn 🚫

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 10h

There's still a lot of detail to be worked on and agreed, but this is a significant breakthrough after two years of death and destruction in Gaza. Hoping and praying this leads to justice and sustainable peace for everyone in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Trump announces Gaza ceasefire deal: What we know and what’s next

This is the first phase of a 20-point plan announced by Trump last week.

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 10h

I do like long exposure photos taken at night, car lights streaking across the frame

Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 10h

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

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Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 23h

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Was Parallel Lines Blondie's best album?

An absolute banger from 1978!

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

I still have luminous vinyl copy of Moving Targets

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

Went to see an #Edinburgh lawyer today.

Not only was he younger than our kids, he was wearing sports casual trousers, an open neck shirt with no tie, & training shoes!

The waiters where we had lunch were smarter!

#WhatIsTheWorldComingTo?
#TellMeYouAreOldWithoutSayingYouAreOld

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed!

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

Minority opinion here, but I really don't like Fairy Tale of New York.

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds

Redemption Song, Bob Marley

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

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More red vinyl, more Peter Perrett...

Time to get last year's brilliant double album The Cleansing back on the turntable

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

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Whetting my appetite ahead of going to his live show in a few days listening to Peter Perrett's superb 2017 comeback album, How The West Was Won

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

Axtweet from David Oslund reads, " If Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are all against the European Convention on Human Rights, thats probably a good reason to be for it."

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 1d

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 2d

We enjoyed a walk along Blackford Glen, #Edinburgh this morning. It is a lovely green place in the city.

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not involved in Edinburgh & West Lothian Presbytery, so I have no idea what their involvement will be. I'm pushing it on our parish social media, not had any feedback yet

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in a webinar hosted by Church of Scotland hearing more about *Scotland Demands Better* ahead of the (hopefully) big march and event in Edinburgh on 25 October, and the campaigning in the run up to the 2026 elections in Scotland

#ScotlandDemandsBetter

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SCOTLAND DEMANDS BETTER

www.scotland-demands-better.com

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 3d

True! 😄 He's such a loser

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Given that it was the Green Party conference last week

Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?

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Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 3d

I'd forgotten about Murdo until I saw this. Is this a pathetic attempt from him to get a bit of publicity?

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 3d

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Continuing the Blues theme for a Sunday evening, going back to Johnny Winter's 1969 eponymous album on Colombia.

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 3d

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Sunday night mood, I just need a blast of rocking blues.

Red, White & Blue by Johnny Winters.

Yeah!

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know of any relatives in the US, but given the number of people who migrated from Scotland to the States, there
may well be

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 5d

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In 1978, the late, great John Peel played this classic album over four nights on his Radio 1 show to introduce a new generation to the wonderful weirdness that is Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 5d

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Sometimes only Tom Waits will do.

The classic Swordfish Trombones (40th anniversary remaster)

Sandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 5d

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Who else remembers Roogalator? Danny Adler on bluesy, jazzy, funky guitar. They released Love And The Single Girl on Virgin and All Aboard b/w Cincinatti Fatback on Stiff. All of these tracks are on their 1977 album Play It By Ear on Dig It.