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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 5h

I'll look forward to encountering Father Jordan then!

Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 9h

May it go the way of Reader's Digest editions.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 22h

What precisely are they supposed to integrate with? Jenrick down the Conservative club? Keep libraries open, support community centres, sports clubs, decent schools. Stop letting big money concerns eviscerate communities. Sorry, I have gone off on one ...

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 1d

I can absolutely appreciate that. Am in terror whenever someone lends me a book in pristine condition.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 1d

It's as if they've all descended into a competition of loathsomeness.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief!

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 1d

Reading a story where someone has gone into an archive and been given a cup of tea and now All the Archivists are Screaming.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

Best thing ever on Bluesky. The way they're retreating before the frog.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

Don't throw out your notes.

Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

I love that The Archers are trending on a Sunday night. It feels like revenge for all the times an American politician I've never heard of is trending, and I tell myself not to look, but I look.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, exactly.

Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

Heard an excellent talk, on and in Scots, by Frieda Morrison at the Banffshire Field Club conference yesterday. AI the last thing we need.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 2d

Me neither (unless Space Invaders counts?) Also, have never watch the film 'Titanic'.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 3d

Very good.

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 3d

I cancelled my Audible subscription months ago (all the reasons), but I've been missing my audiobooks. Somehow @libro.fm had passed me by, until I heard about it from @nairnbooks.bsky.social Now very happy. Thanks, Sam. My 1st choice is Dorothy Dunnet's 'Niccolo Rising'. and I'm off to C15th Bruges!

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 3d

Have started the Big Clean in advance of friends coming to stay next weekend and am getting into corners that might *occasionally* be missed. Wondering how we are still alive.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3d

“Today you look very green even for a frog,” said Toad. “Get into my bed and rest.”

Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea. Frog drank the tea, and then he said, “Tell me a story while I am resting.”

Frog is sick in bed. Toad brings him hot tea and tells him a story.

From "The Story"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 3d

There should be lots of familiar scenes for you 🙂

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 4d

So good to see HIGNFY back. Not sure if the best bit was Sheila Hancock in general, or when Paul Merton said, 'Haven't we done Trump? Can't we move on to something else?'

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Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social · 5d

Coorie in close bairns - that hizzie Amy is on her wey...

"The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last;
The rattling show'rs rose on the blast;
The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd;
Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand."

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 5d

"Nuclear War. Peg bags."😅

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 5d

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 6d

Ha, I have not even tried.

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