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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 8h

I had a lot of fun today clambering about The Centre in Cumbernauld wae Unca Nebo.

A man with a grey beard and small woolly hat is hanging off a lamp post, about four feet up, with the Cumbernauld shopping centre in the background.

A man with a grey beard is lying flat, head tilted back, looking at and reaching for the camera. The photo almost looks as if it were taken from above.

A man with a grey beard and a small woolly hat is squatting on a window ledge in front of a large window. The photo demonstrates the Dutch angle.

A man with a grey beard and a small woolly hat sits in a long corridor, the walls painted blue on the lower half.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just the five books read in September but that's an improvement on the month before (only two, so I didn't bother posting, which was a shame because one of those was the excellent All Fours by Miranda July).

Image showing the covers of the books I read in September. These are The Trials of Lila Dalton by L.J. Shepherd, If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, and A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith.

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Small Press Scotland CIC @smallpress.scot · 01/10/2026

We're looking for a new director! Are you passionate about Scottish small press? Do you want to make a substantial impact for Scotland's self-publishing creators? Then you might be the perfect fit for the Small Press Scotland team! 📌 See the full details: smallpress.scot/jobs/director

We're looking for a new director!

Would you like to make a substantial impact on Scotland’s small press scenes and help uplift self-publishing creators? Small Press Scotland CIC is looking for a new director to join our existing team as a partner. You will assist with and oversee event organisation, community engagement, and development of resources and strategies to educate and assist creators working across many creative fields.

This is a volunteer, unpaid role for the immediate future; all current directors are working on a volunteer or contractor basis dependent on project funding. If full funding is received for our 2027 programme and beyond, we expect to pay all directors a rate of £20/hour for approximately 200 hours a year.

See the full details on our website!

Deadline to apply: 5pm, 9/12/2026
Interviews: from 4/1/2027
Responses: by 22/1/2027
Expected start date: February 2027

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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haverin is an anthology of 43 stories from writers who have been a member of the GSFWC at some point in the last 40 years. My fellow editors are @munchkinstein.bsky.social and @hexthervvv.bsky.social and cover art is by @jennicoutts.bsky.social #GSFWC40 #HAVERIN #booksky 💙📚

A pile of 3 books, anthologies by the GSFWC in the last 10 years. On top Haverin, then Gallus, and on bottom the 30th anniversary Thirty Years of Rain.

Cover artist Jenni Coutts studies a test copy of the book, ensuring that she is happy with how it looks.

Brian hitting the big order button having had Jenni's approval.

Author Elsie WK Donald, a little grey haired woman. One of the earliest members of the GSFWC and still a regular. She is holding a copy of Haverin, in which she has done the foreword as well as having a story.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We took a walk along the Glen Vale path up past Kinross today.

A bald man with a grey beard and a checked shirt in the hills with a piece of heather in his mouth.

A man seen from below as he presses him back to the rock face.

A bald man with a grey beard beside a trickling waterfall.

The back of a man walking a dusty clay coloured path in the hills.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We had another full day pottering around Stirling today taking in the reuse hub where I tried on a snazzy hat, the Made in Stirling store where we enjoyed some art, The Granary Cafe which does proper tasty rolls, and a record fair in the Thistle Centre where I bought a handful of cheap CDs.

Two blokes in fine leather jackets, with framed art on the wall in the background.

Unca Nebo on his haunches, eyes bulging incredulously.

A bloke with a white beard trying on a tartan bunnet in a second hand warehouse.

A bloke rubbing his face with one hand while the other gives a thumbs up. On the table in front of him is a cup of tea.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16/09/2026

We need an urgent pause on hyperscale data centres in Scotland. 👇

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too! #Haverin #GSFWC40

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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Comic artists (particularly newer and mid-experience folks)! I've put together 12* stories that you can use as portfolio/skill builders! 6 2-pagers, 6 4-pagers! 2 sci-fi, 2 horror, 2 superhero, a romance/slice of life, a comedy, a mystery, a Western, a smutty one, and 1 TBD. More info in 🧵

12 STORIES FOR COMIC ARTISTS TO PRACTICE WITH
By David Mariotte

A few notes from the writer:
Please remember that these are all meant to be fairly simple stories. They are for practicing the art of sequential storytelling and are not a magnum opus for anyone.
Focus on what is important to you--there are notes for specific color choices and the scripts include dialogue, captions, and SFX that could be lettered, but if that's not your skillset or what you want to work on, they should all work without!
If you want, definitely ask someone to collaborate with you! Bring in a colorist or letterer friend to get them some practice too!
These stories are meant to have enough details to help you tell the story, but also be open enough that you have a lot of flexibility to make them your own!
These stories are provided for free for the purposes of building your portfolio. My only request is that you credit me and anyone else you work with correctly and that you don't sell the completed stories (it's fine to post them online for free/to include in your portfolio or website, I'm even okay if you end up putting them in a for-sale zine with a bunch of your other work as long as they're not the only or main thing in the zine)
If you use AI in any capacity to create your version of these pages or you try to train an AI in any way with them (pages, script, etc), you owe me $100 million USD.
Once you finish any scripts you dig, you can reach out to me at dmariottewebhost@gmail.com and we can schedule a 10-15 minute digital portfolio review. We’ll talk about the comic you made off these scripts. We can talk about some of your other work if you provide a full portfolio, your goals in comics, and how to get there. It’ll be fun and easy!

1. SCI-FI (2 PAGES)
A cyberpunk hero in a bike chase across the moon. They actually works for the UPPS (United Planets Postal Service) and are delivering a package.

2. SCI-FI (4 PAGES)
A girl in a car is being chased by an alien spaceship through the countryside. She does a magical girl Transformers-mation to become a mecha magi girl. The spaceship has become a mecha kaiju and they fight. The mecha magi girl wins the day, but has secretly had help from a mysterious stranger.

3. HORROR (2 PAGES)
A big scary looking Michael Myers type guy hides in a closet and watches through the slats as a pair of yuppie young people come and make out in front of him. But actually, they're the killers and he was hiding and they found him and get him!

4. HORROR (4 PAGES)
A person is at a big box store and is trying to get headache medicine out of one of those stupid sealed cases--pressing the button, but no one comes. A worker finally shows up, but they've got like a weird eye monster on them. The protagonist runs, looking for help, but everyone's got the eye monster. The protagonist collapses from the headache and their eye bursts out and latches itself with its new tentacles to their face.

5. SUPERHERO (2 PAGES)
A car is driving way too fast in a city and a speedy hero is trying to chase it down until finally catching it and opening the door to... A pregnant woman who is about to have a baby that the hero has to rush to the hospital!

6. SUPERHERO (4 PAGES)
The hero is fighting Doppelgang, a villain who can create near-identical duplicates of himself. The hero must navigate around an army of duplicates, knowing trying to fight them all would be exhausting, to get to the real one (potential double page spread). The hero gets the real Doppelgang and saves the day.

7. ROMANCE/SLICE OF LIFE (2 PAGES)
A boy and a girl in parallel seem to be waking up late and rushing to get ready for school--making their lunch, barely getting their toast in their mouths--and seem to be on a collision course at the corner. When they arrive, they swap lunches, give a quick kiss, wish each other a good day and look forward to this weekend because they're actually already a couple.

8. COMEDY (2 PAGES)
A parent notices the cookies are missing from the cookie jar and starts interrogating the family, with the obvious suspect being the crumb-faced little one, but then.... "J'accuse!" their spouse tries to deny it with their mouth obviously stuffed with cookies and everyone laughs.

9. MYSTERY (2 PAGES)
A hardboiled detective smashes a window and begins exploring a messy apartment. After searching each room, they find keys in a trenchcoat by the door, only to call the window repairman to fix his apartment window and it ends on a "how'd this happen? it's a mystery" punchline. (Sorry this is also funny)

10. WESTERN (4 PAGES)
A cowpoke is HOT in the desert and their horse is hot too, panting and trying to fan themselves. They finish their canteen and crack open a cactus for water, they walk in circles under the circling vulture trying to catch whatever shade they can. The cowpoke notices the moon just starting to come up over the horizon and lassos it. The cowpoke pulls the moon up, making it nighttime, and they both sigh in relief as its finally cool.

11. EROTICA (4 PAGES)
A couple is at a park with one of them sucking on a creamsicle that melts all over their chest. They get their partner to lick it off, moving their top aside to let them suck on their nipples. Still wanting to suck on something for the creamy goodness within, the ice cream one starts giving the other head. The receiver pops all over the givers face and they both lick it up to clean up, with the giver requesting to cum a *lot* when they get home.

12. TBD (4 PAGES)

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We got cake today to celebrate our sister's 50th. We had a big family dinner yesterday but it's actually her birthday today so yeah, we got cake.

Two men with greying beards sat with chocolate cake in front of them.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We had a family dinner today to celebrate my sister's 50th (tomorrow)!

Family portrait, four sitting on sofa, four behind all looking directly at the camera.

A black and white photo of my sister and I, side by side. We're both smiling as I point at her with my thumb.

A photo of three people. My dad is in the middle and on either side is myself and my mum.

My sister and her family, (husband, son and daughter) sitting opposite me at the dining table, all smiling at the camera.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I had a fun day mucking about Dollar Glen wae Unca Nebo.

I'm draped over the end of a wall "throwing gang signs" at a tourist sign pointing to "Dollar Glen and Castle Campbell".

I'm leaning at a strange angle, bracing against a tree, as I descend steps in the woods.

Unca Nebo is peering at you through some very thin young trees.

Unca Nebo is holding a clump of moss in front of his face.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was at the protest outside a meeting of the Falkirk Council Planning Review Committee this morning. I made a new t-shirt and touched up the tote I printed previously. I also got a letter through the post inviting me to attend the Pre-determination meeting on 16th September, so that's in the diary.

Me, photographed and posted on the socials by Friends of the Earth, Falkirk. I'm standing with my back to the camera but you can read the text on my tote, which says, "Say no to Larbert AI data centre pollution." Their caption reads, "Hand made protest signs are so much better than AI slop."

A group of people outside the council buildings in Grangemouth, holding signs and protesting the proposed AI data centre in Larbert.

A photo of me wearing the t-shirt I produced which reads "AGAINST" but the middle AI letters are in red. I'm also holding my tote which reads, "Say No To Larbert AI Data Centre Pollution." There are sunflowers behind me.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A couple of the bugs that have been enjoying the sunflowers.

A Painted Lady Butterfly enjoying a sunflower.

A Hoverfly getting stuck into the sunflowers.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A good showing from the sunflowers this year. The tallest is just over 3 metres. Still a bunch yet to flower but plenty to keep the bees going in the meantime!

I'm standing on a stepladder in front of a row of tall sunflowers.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I had a wee wander around Stirling old town today.

I'm dangling from a rope swing with Holy Rude church in the background.

I'm sitting on the base of the Star Pyramid in Stirling.

I'm wearing an exaggerated grin as I stand next to a statue of a "ye olde" man by the entrance to the grounds of the old jail.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We had a fun day out in Larbert protesting the proposed AI Mega Data Centre. Lots of encouraging support from all the traffic - toots and thumbs up a plenty! A good turn out from the local dog community too who clearly feel strongly about the environmental impact.

I, a bald white man with a short grey beard, am crouched next to a small grey dog called Dougal. I'm holding a sign that reads Say No To A.I.

I, a bald white man with a short grey beard, am standing in a crowd at a protest against AI data centres, holding a tote with patchy lino print text, hastily made that morning, that reads Say No To Larbert AI Data Centre Pollution.

Unca Nebo and I are at a protest holding anti AI signs.

Unca Nebo smiling as the crowd begins to gather for the anti AI data centre protest.

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@graemereynolds.com @graemereynolds.com · 12/08/2026

I've decided to give the Small Press Operating Manual away for free from the Moonstruck website. Running a press and drowning in admin? Thinking about moving from self publishing to selling for others? This might help. Download for free from the link below www.moonstrucksoftware.com/freebook

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It was another great year for Sequential Scotland and we enjoyed chatting to new and returning exhibitors. I was a little more relaxed with my budget this year too! Check out my haul of books and pins.

A selection of books from Sequential Scotland. I've detailed the titles and authors in a comment below.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We took a wee wander up Dumyat fae the grounds of Stirling Uni.

Black and white photo of me, a bald man in t-shirt and jeans crouched on the side of a rock, posing, knees high, like Spiderman sticking to the side of a building.

Nebo, a man with a chinny beard and hair like Christopher Walker is looking distraught as he views the camera over the trig point at the top of Dumyat.

I, a bald man in a t-shirt and jeans, am crouched on the ground under a shrubbery tunnel.

Nebo leans, eyes closed, into the side of a green speckled rock.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We popped into @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social in Linlithgow today. Cracking bookshop with a very broad selection. I decided to pick up The Trials of Lila Dalton by L.J. Shepherd. I think Unca Nebo got a bit bored waiting for me. I found him sitting on the floor reading a little Alan Bennett.

I'm standing in front of a shelf of books holding a copy of "The Trials of Lila Dalton" by L.J. Shepherd.

Unca Nebo is sat cross legged on the bookshop floor reading a little Alan Bennett.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

These are the books I read in July.

An image showing the covers for the six books I read in July. These are The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim, The Dandelion Riots by Kim Smejkal, Last Days by Brian Evenson, Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban, and The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Got a couple of nice selfies with the dogs today.

A selfie of Megan, a fair haired Bernedoodle, and myself, a bald, grey bearded man wearing a blue checked shirt.

A selfie of Meeshka, a brindle staffie cross and myself, a bald, grey bearded man wearing a blue checked shirt.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Enjoyed a wee wander Fae Bo'ness to Blackness and back wae Unca Nebo today.

Nebo, wearing sunglasses, has his hand and face press up again a large rusty cylinder.

I'm walking weirdly past a pair of rusty mesh gates topped with barbed wire.

I am standing atop a decrepit wooden pier. Blue sky and water in the background.

Nebo is sat on a bench, water over his shoulder on the left. In the far distance you could just make out the Forth bridges.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ok, so here are another few photos from Aberlady bay beach today. Let's see if Bluesky finds these sexually suggestive too!

Unca Nebo is leaning into the water. The photo is at a 45 degree angle.

I'm running on the beach with the sea behind me.

I'm jumping into the air on the beach. The photo is taken side on, the sea is behind me and one arm obscures my face.

I'm thigh deep in the water, half turned away from the camera.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Lol, I just posted a few photos of me and my pal on the beach and Bluesky has labelled them as sexually suggestive! Wild 😂

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Here are the books I read in June. Unfortunately, I struggled with Hangman by Maya Binyam and kept falling asleep (even when reading in the middle of the afternoon) so it took me a lot longer to finish! I probably should've given up.

An image showing the covers for the six books I read in June. These are The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton, Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère, Thraxas book one by Martin Scott, Hangman by Maya Binyam and The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's been 17 years since I last did the Elie chain walk. If I wait another 17 years before doing it again, I'll be 68! Looking forward to it!

I'm 17 years younger (34), wearing a yellow and brown stripy t-shirt and jeans, photographed looking down at me as I descend the chains on the Elie chain walk.

Me, today, wearing a blue vest and grey shorts, photographed looking down at me as I descend the chains on the Elie chain walk.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Unca Nebo and I spent the day in Elie, on the Fife coast, scrambling along the chain walk and exploring the caves.

Unca Nebo is standing in the Devil's Cave on the Fife Coast. It is dark and the rock has a reddish hue. Nebo is holding a torch aloft in his right hand, pointing it at the camera.

I'm clinging to chains as I haul myself up the rock face on the Elie chain walk, photographed from the side.

Unca Nebo and I are taking a selfie on Elie beach. I'm in the foreground wearing sunglasses, Nebo is in the background holding his hand in the peace V.

Nebo is in a bunker, grinning as he approaches the narrow, horizontal space in the wall through which I am taking the photo.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Starmer wasn't the only one to leave number 10 today. The difference is, we did so after enjoying some grub at the Wynd cafe in Dunfermline whereas Starmer left after overseeing some of the most appalling political policies this country has seen in decades.

Unca Nebo is standing in the doorway of a cafe with the number 10 on either side of the frame.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Write to the First minister to call for an urgent moratorium on AI data centres. This link from the Scottish Greens makes it easy. greens.scot/datacentres

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Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I went along to a community meeting tonight which had been set up to discuss the 300MWh AI Data Centre planned for Larbert. It was very informative, with some significant details on additional major issues I was unaware of and I'm feeling better equipped to compose and submit my objections. 1/2

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There is another meeting planned for the Dobbie Hall at 7pm next Thursday (25th June) and it's hoped that our local councillors and MSPs will be in attendance. I'll be writing to them in the meantime. 2/2

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The weather came good for a potter round the Limekilns and the old harbour in Charlestown.

I'm sitting on a large lump of concrete with two rusty girders poking out of it, half submerged in the water at Charlestown harbour.

I'm creeping through the small arches of the Limekilns at Charlestown.

Unca Nebo is balanced, legs splayed atop a metal ladder that leads down the side of the harbour at Charlestown.

Myself and Unca Nebo have each climbed into narrow openings, in the wall of the Limekilns at Charlestown. I'm crouched in my space, Nebo is standing in his.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I visited Doune Castle today wae Unca Nebo.

I'm sitting on a wooden ramp by the side of the River Teith. It's a sunny day.

Inside the castle, I'm in foreground and Unca Nebo is leaning into frame over my shoulder. We're looking a little moody, sort of serious.

$I'm sitting in a gap in the castle wall with a hatched glass window behind me. The way the light has refracted in the lens, there is hatching over me so that I almost look transparent, like you can see through me to the hatched window behind, like I'm a ghost.$ A black and white close up of myself and Unca Nebo. We're wearing hats from the dress-up box in the castle, obviously inspired by the TV show, Outlander.

A black and white close up of myself and Unca Nebo. We're wearing hats from the dress-up box in the castle, obviously inspired by the TV show, Outlander.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hadoukened! I saw something online about how the kids in Japan were doing this. Thought we'd give it a go. Unca Nebo got me good!

On the river bank. Unca Nebo is posed as if he is shooting a blast of energy from his hands. I've lept into the air and it looks like I've been hit hard with the energy blast and it's sent me flying through the air!

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

THESE LAGOONS ARE TRESPASSERS.

A sign photographed through a wire fence. It reads "Warning, these lagoons are dangerous, trespassers will be prosecuted, Scottish Power." However, the words warning, dangerous and prosecuted were originally in red and have faded to a point where they are barely visible.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Messing about on a sunny day in Culross wae Unca Nebo.

I'm looking over my shoulder, through the glassless window of a monastic ruin at my friend Nebo.

I'm walking down the stone steps of a narrow alley in Culross.

I'm standing on railings with cap held aloft.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

These are the books I read in May.

An image showing the eight books I read in May. These are The Lifters by Dave Eggers, Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke, On The Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, Phantom Limb by Chris Kohler, Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer, The Man Within by Graham Greene, I found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing, Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We (I) also had a bit of fun playing dress-up at The Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling. And the gardens were nice too.

My buddy Martin and me, sitting in the gardens at The Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling.

I'm sticking my head through one of those portraits with a hole cut out for the face. The figure has a ruff around the neck and is also holding a small dog, possibly a Pomeranian, from which there is a speech bubble containing the word 'ruff'. The figure is saying 'how's tricks' in a separate bubble.

I'm wearing a mustard coloured jacket with puffy shoulders and blue edging. I don't know what period it's from but it looks like something from the film Shakespeare in Love!

A black and white photo. I'm wearing a top hat and a jacket that looks like something a ring master might wear.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We discovered The Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling today. Load of interesting paintings and fun ancient artifacts!

A display illustrating the output of the Carron Iron Works from 1959. Featured in the photo is a fireplace with large kettle and, in the foreground, irons resting on a stove (out of frame).

A painting of Madonna (mother) and Child from 1867 by Adolphe Jourdan.

Vase, a collaboration by Simon Ward and Robert Mach featuring a vase wrapped in blue and silver Tunnoch wrappers and embellished with dozens of three dimensional golden bird.

A bronze bust of Scottish medium Helen Duncan, one of the last people convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Her gift was that she had the ability to produce forms of dead people through the production of the substance called ectoplasm.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A fun day out at Silver Sands Beach in Aberdour. The water wasn't too cold once you got used to it. Lots of fun clambering around on the rocks too.

I'm climbing through a crack in the rocks at Silver Sands Beach in Aberdour.

I'm climbing on the rocks at Silver Sands Beach in Aberdour. A stumpy lighthouse is in the background.

I'm on all fours, scuttling towards the camera on Silver Sands Beach in Aberdour, with the water behind me.

I'm shivering, waist deep in the water at Silver Sands Beach in Aberdour.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Stunning weather today for a wee trip to Dalkeith Country Park wae Unca Nebo.

Unca Nebo and I are sitting on the grass in front of the orangery at Dalkeith Country Park. Nebo is holding his hand up in the peace V.

I'm posing "taps aff" in front of the Montagu Bridge with Dalkeith Palace seen in the distance through its arch.

Unca Nebo is posing against a tree trunk.

I'm walking across a fallen tree, photographed from beneath.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ten acts you’ve seen, female lead singer edition: Babes in Toyland Madder Rose Silverfish Frente Oh Pep! Come Magnapop Sarah McLachlan Dog Faced Hermans Rokia Traoré

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We do enjoy a triple roll at the Granary whenever we're in the Stirling area. Always very satisfying! We both went for square sausage, haggis and fried egg.

Unca Nebo is pointlessly looking at the menu in the Granary, he always just waits for me to order and then asks for the same!

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A fine wander up Mill Glen. We started on up The Law too but it was too much for Unca Nebo so we decided to go for hot rolls instead!

Unca Nebo navigates the part of Mill Glen where the path had been washed away.

I'm walking up the wooden stairs beside the waters of Mill Glen.

I'm stood on a small wooden bridge over the flowing waters of Mill Glen.

Unca Nebo flips the Vs with the valley of Mill Glen to his back.

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ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Spotted a few newts on our trek today!

A young newt in the water. Beneath is a brown bottle with a raised number 18 on it.

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