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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 5h

I was just telling someone the other day how my primary school music teacher used the Beatles to teach us music theory (1983 ish), and told us about this (and more)!

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18h

I have a concert next Tuesday, 20th October. Three pieces connected by the end of WWII: Britten’s Four Sea Interludes, Korngold’s Violin Concerto and Martinů’s Fourth Symphony. All wonderful pieces of music. In particular, the Martinů is an undervalued masterpiece. Do come!

sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk

1945, Year of Release - Sinfonia Smith Square

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 9h

I was surprised you didn't have flamingos, so l looked it up and found this! www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2025/11/14/l...

birdsoutsidemywindow.org

Looking Back: Quiet Time With Flamingos at the Outer Banks | Outside My Window

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 19h

We were watching flamingos in the Camargue last week, and wondering what it's like with a neck so long it makes an s-bend.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I do apologise if the first time you heard it was 2 am somewhere off Leith Walk.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

How Great Thou Art. My flatmate and I used to belt that one out in Leith coming home from the pub (sorry, denizens of Pilrig).

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The more I look at them, the more they make think of cats!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here are two chilled peacocks showing us how it's done. Let's be more #peacock! Spotted by experienced #PeacocksOfBluesky spotter @etrooms.bsky.social

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We really miss our bees when they go for the year. 😥

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In defense of archaeologists, I was an archaeologists and knew about Waiting for Godot!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

During the Neolithic across Britain there was a decline of fish consumption in favour of plant based foods and terrestrial animals. There is 1 example of an Iron Age woman from Orkney who had a marine based diet - not sure where the research is at these days. Interesting topic!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My grandparents had a refrigerator that was a box in the kitchen wall with an insulated , and my grandfather had some how built the mechanical/electrical bits that sat on a table in the woodshed next door. I wish I had a photograph of it.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh crumbs, I should have scrolled down further to see your post before making mine. It was my first thought 🤣

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Join our in-person workshop for the opportunity to make your own embroidery inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry! 🪡🧵 ⏰ Thursday, 12 Nov 2026 📍 Senate House, London 🎟️ £40 Spaces are limited, book your place now 👇

ies.sas.ac.uk

Making and Remaking the Bayeux Tapestry

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That's wonderful! Just thinking she may have been -was most likely - familiar to @martingillie.bsky.social 's great-great-grandfather. Small world!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My grandmother hand washed everything into her 90s 🤯 nope nopity nope for me - but she did have an amazingly strong grip until she died at 102.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't know why it's moreso at Christmas for me rather than Easter, but every year I am struck anew by just how astonishing Christianity must have been to people 2000 years ago, and how hard it is to follow the messages of love, hope, forgiveness, generosity, humility etc - but worthwhile to try.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ireland is part of the archipelago of islands called the British Isles, it is not part of Great Britain, the British Islands, or the UK.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I also wish you both would know when to clam up.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You 2 can be so frustracean sometimes.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Drainspotting in Roman Provence.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am feeling bad for ruirning your very good joke.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sorry, I read that the wrong way. I don't feel your satnav's pain. Been doing a lot of navigating with unhelpful phones and maps recently.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am so sorry for how much tgat made me laugh. But I also felt your pain.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That is true, its like leaving the road and entering another world!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's surely the conditional mood of 'innit'?

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Biscuits are part of our kith, if not our kin...

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I cn see that would be nice. We lived on the A52 which was surprisingly nice, especially when it was shut to transpennine traffic. #ClassifiedRoadsIHaveKnown

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wow autocarrot has just gone WILD in that post.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glad to see you've ventured into 3 digits. I was wondering ifnit 3 was time to start suggesting connoisseurs roads like the A683 or....especially the B9086.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Having been sat around tables in UK unis actively trying to stop people wasting money on technology white elephants, I suspect there is a lot of careerism, group think, bike-shedding, and adrenalin rushes from spending lots of money on cool, shiny things.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As I was typing I was berating myself for only ever using it on that offhand way to refer to friends and family. Times for a #KithAppreciationSociety ?

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you for the interesting post on the first place!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He's correct. The archipelago also includes IoM but not the Channel Islands* which are lumped under the British Islands, not Isles, and does not include RoI. *I think people often file them under British Isles, as well. It's all very confusing.

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think I thought I was replying to a post in the thread or a repost musing about Sc G buntanas learngaelic.scot/dictionary/i... - we do have something similar in Mod E but just doesn't use it much www.etymonline.com/word/kith anymore. I hope that helps!

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Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another good example of how etymology can help us become better people!

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