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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't wish to brag about it but it's currently raining in Scotland.

Wet grass and wet pavement. It's raining!

Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In celebration of the Scotland 1-0 win over Haiti in their first World Cup 2026 match, I present this AI-generated fabulously kitsch song of blissful silliness, “One Nil to the Tartan Dream”. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/garethjms/on... #scotland #worldcup #worldcup2026

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One nil to the tartan dream

One nil to the tartan dream Verse 1 In Boston town the pipes rang loud, Beneath the stars and stripes, The Tartan Army marched as one With shortbread crumbs and pipes. From every bar on every street,

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I finished writing a book today. I'm really proud of it. And myself. It's about using the sense-making framework Cynefin with Scrum.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I had plans for yesterday. Sadly, I woke up with intense back pain. I could barely walk all day. Needed to use a stick to hobble around. Painkillers made me feel sick. I hope tomorrow is better.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

For the last 22 years I've created a digital version of the Scottish Episcopal Church calendar and lectionary. The 2025-2026 version went live today. #pisky www.seccalendar.org.uk

seccalendar.org.uk

SEC digital calendar

Scottish Episcopal Church digital calendar and lectionary in a digital format for importing into Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, etc

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I’ve just made the mistake of flicking through the House of Bruar catalogue while suffering a Covid fever. What in the name of Atholl is going on?👇

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

God bless the NHS. Child #2 broke his arm and dislocated his knee this afternoon. He's had two x-rays, arm in plaster, in hospital tonight. Hopefully surgery tomorrow. Bless him. His birthday is this week.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's been a rough few days. But antibiotics are kicking in to treat an 80-plus-day chest infection and I hope tonight's diazepam and codeine will help my aching two herniated discs.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A good start to the NFL season for the #SF49ers. But sorry to see tight end George Kittle 85 go off with an injury. And some sloppy play in places (I'm looking at you Jake Moody).

San Francisco 49ers defender Nick Bosa at the end of the game against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Up early to take sons one and two to an army cadets drill competition.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Twenty-five years ago today, I celebrated my first Eucharist as a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. #pisky

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I've been playing a lot of Mastodon this evening, especially Cold Dark Place. Rest in peace Brent Hinds.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Exhausting day. Kidney pain was 7/10 at the start of the day, but has almost gone now. Phew! Heat made it worse. I feel grateful and thankful for my children and my friends. X

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Well, somehow I have managed to burst a cyst in my right kidney. The pain is quite extraordinary. It's a sharp pain that feels like how I imagine it would be to be stabbed in the kidney. The kind of pain that takes your breath away. I feel like I am going to pass out. Nausea, dizziness, pain.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This evening, I ported a Chrome extension that I'd written to Firefox. The add-on provides extra functionality to the content management system we use at work. It feels good to solve practical problems for colleagues.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Today I broke all ties with an ex girlfriend. I didn't come to this decision lightly. But I did come to it with a clearer view of my boundaries than I've seen in a long time. And the peace it has already brought me is remarkable. I didn't realise just how stressed I've been for years and years.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I got up at 06:00 this morning. My body felt exhausted and nauseated but my mind was running at 100mph. Got a bunch of stuff done. Snoozed throughout the day. Listened to an amazing new doom metal album. Watched some cricket. Threw up after dinner and felt a whole lot better. Tomorrow is a new day.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Furthest I've been: North: John O'Groats, Scotland East: Singapore West: Honolulu, Hawaii South: Dunedin, NZ

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

First bike ride in a month thanks to a lurking chest infection. Got out of the house, down the road, grey clouds loomed overhead, the wind picked up and the rain fell. It was exhausting but fantastic. Lay on my bed and listened to the cricket.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Here we are on the Feast of the Transfiguration, the fifth anniversary of my mum's death. Her deathday, if you will. It's been a tough day.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A tricky and exhausting day today, the day between my late mum's birthday yesterday and, for want of a better word, deathday tomorrow. But two of my children are here, so my heart is full. (Also managed to drop my phone today and crack the screen protector.)

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Productive morning working on a friend's website. Snooze over lunchtime, listening to the test match. Then a quick jaunt up to Perth with son #3 to collect son #2 from an army cadets event. Son #3 is now here overnight. Hurrah! An evening of laughter.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I can now see that my last few relationships really have been devastating for my mental (and physical) health, to put it lightly. The healing has begun. One step at a time.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Standing at my front door, knowing that I desperately want to go out for a walk but also feeling a deep fear. Not entirely sure where that is coming from. But I am going out anyway. Walk through the fear.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

That's been a long, tough week. I've worked more than an extra day in terms of hours during the past week. But I got the work done. Tomorrow is a new day. Time to move my body again and gently reclaim myself. The body holds the score... time to let go of some of it.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Sitting in the near dark listening to Godflesh - New Flesh in Dub Vol. 1. A fine way to spend the last few hours of a damp Thursday.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

A fabulously productive day at work today (if about 1.5 hours too long). Each day I am feeling my nervous system relax more. When the emotions come to the surface, I allow myself to feel them and let them go. I am feeling thankful.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Trauma keeps you stuck in fight or flight. I need to gently remind my body that it's safe. Tomorrow I want to cycle for the first time in a while. Cycle until my mind slows down and catches up with me, cycle until I feel the safety again, remind my body what it can do. I have a growing urge to move.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I had meant to go for a cycle this evening and then do some web work. But I went for a snooze, watched some rugby (Maori All Blacks v Scotland) on YouTube and baked some flapjack for the first time.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Over the years, so many social media platforms that have come and gone (or come, been bought and ruined 🐦), I still think of the friends I met on those early platforms and wonder how they are doing now.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I've just reinstalled Bluesky on my phone. I'm setting myself a challenge to be more visible. I realised that years of dealing with trauma and CPTSD made me shrink and want to hide. But I've been healing and I want to push myself to show up and be seen again.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I need to do more exercise. So, despite today's strong winds and my headache (4/10), nausea (6/10), lack of sleep, dehydration and exhaustion, I got out for my regular 6km loop. #win

White man in his 50s with a greying beard and glasses wearing a fluorescent yellow Switch cycling jacket and a look of surprise.

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Good morning, Bluesky! Don’t forget to read the ALT text.

In this carefully staged art photo from 1981, a young woman (played by the artist Cindy Sherman herself) reclines on a tiled kitchen floor, seemingly lost in thought. Her hair, sweater, and skirt are orange, as are the floor tiles. One of her legs is bent backwards; one hand holds a crumpled paper; the other, shaped into a fist, lies close to her hair. She wears no visible makeup, but the fingernails of her right hand—the one in the shape of the fist—are painted dark red. While her outfit and the tiled floor suggest a midwestern college girl dreamily pondering her future, the nail polish, and especially her inscrutable expression, suggest complexities beyond the surface stereotype. Chromogenic print, 24 × 48" (61 × 121.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Carl D. Lobell. © 2021 Cindy Sherman. There’s a great mini-essay on the work at https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/607.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Result! Got both an SFTP server and Plex media server running this evening. No more USB sticks being passed back and forth between me and my son from now on.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Slava Ukraini.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If this product doesn't have a review that says "I bought this duvet cover and now my girlfriend lets me visit zones 1 and 2" then they are wasting everybody's time.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Unless it comes from the Chihuahua region of Mexico, it's only to be regarded as a sparkling dog. 🐕✨

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I learned a lot about people when I was a chaplain in Edinburgh prison. And a lot about myself. It's never my place to judge. It's my place to be kind and bring peace and love and compassion.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

If I could just have a break. One month where there isn't a major crisis to address, where my stress level isn't constantly 100%, where I could sleep for more than 2 hours at a time. I feel like I am close to breaking, but I know I will just keep going because I have no other choice. I am not OK. 😞

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

While 150 schools have closed this morning in the UK due to snow disruption, this is the morning I've woken up to in the East Neuk of Fife. Bluesky meet blue sky.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Off to bed with a hot water bottle, a hoodie and scarf. ❄️

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Documentally @documental.ly · 18/11/2024

Every week I curate & publish a curious journal in search of novelty, exploring what we share, how we share, and where we’re going. You can sign up FOR FREE here -> documentally.net

Me in my shed with a longer beard than normal typing (ok pretending to type) on a keyboard that is out of site. There are some ham radios and an original screen print of Che Guevara made by Jim Fitzpatrick in the background.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Today's big task was to get my Scottish Episcopal Church digital calendar and lectionary live before Advent 1 so folks can subscribe to it on their phones and PCs. #pisky www.seccalendar.org.uk

seccalendar.org.uk

SEC digital calendar

Scottish Episcopal Church digital calendar and lectionary in a digital format for importing into Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, etc

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@iamgraemelamb.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky. I hope you have a good journey.

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Gareth J M Saunders @garethjms.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

So, I received my Bluesky invite code, installed the app ... and got flu. Just setting things up now. What have I missed?

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