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Danny Friel

@df57.bsky.social
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Celtic, cycling, reading, European languages, walking, cooking, baking, faith and family. Enjoying retirement and everyday is still a school day. I live in Edinburgh.

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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🎵Birks Hill over the rainbow! 🎶 But no bluebirds.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
You’ve got to do it at least once.
Old mine workings at ArenbergCobbles at the start of Troux d’ArenbergCrowds near entrance to Troux2014 race arriving at Arendberg
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Braes of Doune today.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Who needs a song when your statue is in the Glyptotek Museum in Munich.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Smashed it!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Chicken, ham and leek pie after Tom Kerridge. Smashed it! Dragons to keep the grandchildren interested. Small pie was GF and potato starch free.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Well worthy of a statue!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
What a thrill this was. We had cycled 10 or so secteurs of pavé and as we arrived at the velodrome noticed the gates were open! I was lucky enough to be in the velodrome when Cancellara won in 2013, but nothing compares to cycling a lap there.
Strava recording of a lap on the iconic Roubaix velodrome.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I took this a couple of weeks back. Fog is such a gift to a photograph.
Foggy scene in Devilla Forest
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Danny McGrain, Celtic and Scotland legendary footballer. #CelticFC
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Antoninus Pius, builder of the Antonine Wall.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I was born in 57, a couple of months before “Hampden in the Sun”. First football memories are of season 64/65. Yesterday was the 80th trophy #CelticFC won since those early memories. My thoughts go to those, like my grandpa, who supported through thin and thinner and rarely saw a trophy lifted. 🍀💚
Celtic players celebrating at Hampden on winning the Scottish League Cup on Sunday 15th December 2024.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Festive barbed wire from Thursday!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Lovely walk in Devilla Forest today. Even the barbed wire was looking festive! #photography
Small lichen, Devilla ForestPeppermill Dam in the mistHoar frost Hoar frost on barbed wire
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Pittodrie tonight! Hopefully the weather doesn’t spoil the game.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I was lucky enough to visit in 2018. One of my favourite cities.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My first shirt was in black and white! 🤦‍♂️
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It’s wonderful to get close enough to see the details. Did you see the Hockney / Piero mini exhibition. That was stunning too.
Detail of a nun walking in “The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles”Close up of a section of “Tree trunks in grass” highlighting depth of paint.Pearl earring on the L’Arlésienne
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Oh yes it is!
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Mist or fog can help create that effect.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Lidl are knocking it out the park just now. #TimsWineClub £8.99 👌
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The Antonine Wall which passes quite close to #CelticFC training ground at Lennoxtown was named after Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius or as he is known more locally, the legend that is Danny McGrain. 🍀💚
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A cat (inexplicably wearing a bicorn hat) at John Knox’s Pulpit in Glen Vale in the Lomond Hills.
John Knox’s Pulpit in Glen Vale is a rocky outcrop. The stones look like the head of a cat wearing a large hat.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I know it’s only a Thursday, but was keen to try this Moldovan beauty. £7.99 in Lidl and it is superb. A chunky 14.5% but carries it effortlessly. #TimsWineClub
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Glorious walk on West Lomond today, round Harperleas Reservoir then back through Glen Vale.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Almost exactly 10 years after this at Hampden. A glorious decade, and Billy led us through it all.
Billy McNeill rises high above Bobby Lennox to head home the winning goal v Dunfermline in the 1965 Scottish Cup Final.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A-Team, my Team! 🍀💚🍀
Hannibal from the A Team with cigar saying “I love it when a plan comes together”.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Great picture. Not too faraway!
View of Celtic Park from section 123 after recent victory v RB Leipzig.
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Danny Friel @df57.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A productive afternoon! This retirement lark is all its cracked up to be….and more!
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