@threadinburgh.scot
Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
@threadinburgh.scotGotta have a hobby!
@threadinburgh.scotOh at least you didn't get "and how many are in the group"?
@threadinburgh.scotIn "Andy is doing another thing" news, on Wednesday I will be one of a panel of 3 speakers for the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust discussing "When Historic Buildings Go Viral". I will try impart my experience of trying to get the clicks about old buildings 🖱️
events.humanitix.com/when-histori...
@peternimmo.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scotRuin a book by adding a word Neil Oliver Twist
@threadinburgh.scotRuin a book by adding a word Mother's Pride and Prejudice
@ellaird.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scotAn early #StandingStoneSunday from this afternoon. The Caiy Stane, high above Edinburgh on a residential street. It's over 9 feet tall and has a row of six cup marks on its reverse face.
@threadinburgh.scotAmazed, in the best possible way, how much art and creativity the towers have inspired. They really need to leave one behind as a permanent monument
@atarbuck.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scotLovely to have new poetry up somewhere!
Find it at: yellowtowers.cargo.site
@meidotwav.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scottreat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
@threadinburgh.scotOh my! It's perfect in every way 👀🤗
@elementalpaul.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scotThere's a rather excellent tall ship, the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, docked at Leith at the moment. Bonus big yellow wind turbine things in the background. #Leith #StatsraadLehmkuhl
@threadinburgh.scotEveryone back to mine for Senokot Spritzes
@katherinemend.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scot“Craft is a very female-dominated industry….the tutors are female. The technicians are…almost all female. The student body is almost all female...It's a sector that supports female creatives because…you've got the flexibility around your caring responsibilities or whatever your situation is.”
@threadinburgh.scot"You can't park there, mate"
@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.socialReposted by @threadinburgh.scotYOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
@threadinburgh.scotPumpkin spiced Benylin
@threadinburgh.scotPutting them on the list with the Cockburn Association
@threadinburgh.scotI am once again asking/begging cultural, heritage and environmental groups in Edinburgh to stop using Gen AI images of a city that has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle and for which a vast portfolio rights-free images already exist to use if you don't have a budget to pay
@threadinburgh.scotNeep could be the new pumpkin!
@threadinburgh.scotTo this day there are War Department "march stones" across the track bed and in the gardens following that red line to denote the castle's property boundary.
