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Hanger Upper

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Ex arranger and installer of fine art exhibitions. Still an obsessive picture straightener.

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 11h
The new dance "Wasp at a Picnic" was becoming all the rage. #GirlsOwnCC
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 14h
Note to self: read the other entries before posting 😞
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 14h
The local am-dram group's recreation of Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' was really drawing the crowds. #GirlsOwnCC
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 19h
Breeding birds please take note #SignsonSunday
The foghorn at the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse can be seen at the bottom of a very steep slope. At the top of the steps that lead down the slope are two signs.
One says:
CAUTION
Handrail only
Steep Coastal slope
Take extreme caution

The other says:
NO FISHING
BELOW FOGHORN 
BREEDING BIRDS
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 23h
Time to stand and stare #SundaySculpture #SundayShadows
'The Man' sculpture by Andrew Brown looking out to sea at Port William, with another man.
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Winter drawers on 😄
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😂 couldn't be more different
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Charles Coid, Whithorn #ShopFrontFriday #AOFoto
Charles Coid, Butcher's shop in Whithorn. A white shop front in a pristine white painted wall with a white and black mosaic sign. A yellow grit bin is the only splash of colour.
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2800 miles to Senegal #FingerpostFriday
Fingerpost at the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse showing the distances to Edinburgh, John o' Groats, Belfast, Land's End, Douglas, London and Senegal (where the local gannet population spend the winter).
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gate to the Keepers' Garden #Thursgate
Green wooden gate in a gap in the perimeter wall of the Keepers' Garden. The Mull of Galloway lighthouse is peeping over the top.
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😎
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WheelieBinWednesday #AOFoto
Two large wheelie bins against a grey harled wall, one with a pink lid. Above the bins someone has painted Pac-Man and a pink ghost. A small brown wheelie bin peeks round the corner.
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stunning! 😍 Took me a moment to notice the figure behind the glass
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And if nobody likes you as Nature made you there's always Maybelline.
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks ☺️
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
XXX rated #Aofoto
Rusting silver painted water tanks with X's on the end sit on a grassy hillock overlooking the sea.
(Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, (Isle of Man on the horizon)).
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So good it even makes your dusters shiny!
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Class 👌
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As the two arrows whizzed past her ear and embedded themselves in the contents of her suitcase, Fenella found herself adding four cans of Strongbow to her online grocery order. #GirlsOwnCC
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Prunella decided to leave a one star review for the knitting kit. The wool was too thin, the needles too thick and the instructions were in Chinese. #GirlsOwnCC
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pop in #AOFoto
A metal door at the side of Boots chemist. A sticker on the shop window looks like a man is popping his head into the photo, it says "Pop in, I can help & advise". 
(High Street, Perth)
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You'll probably get detention for that Amanda 😂
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🙄 Did he take your dinner money as well?
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fantastic 😄. Hopefully you didn't need to recreate the sound of a smoke alarm after that
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I bet there's gin in that thermos 😉
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#AccidentalPortrait !
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He started it Miss 😟
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And we shall speak not of the toffee finger, lest we stray any further into tsk tsk territory
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Same goes for Country Fudge
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Fetch my Roses Alicia!" shouted Grandma, "And if you're very good I shall save you a Hazel Whirl"
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She was completely disarmed by his charm, but then he blew it by completely losing his head
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A big favourite in our house too. My Dad always gave them their full name - Cox's Orange Pippins - and said the best ones had pips that rattled when you shook them
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It does indeed look like a little garagey workshop, attached to an old house on the south side of South William Street. A perfect spy's den
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wonder who thought trepanning would be a good idea to sell coffee 😂
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fleshers' Vennel #Thursgate #AOphoto
A half-open wrought iron gate in the wall of a cobbled vennel leading to number 21. A blue and white tiled plaque on the wall illustrates the fleshers' trade and shows a man butchering a carcass and a dog stealing a string of sausages. 
(Perth)
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You did well to capture that picture before he ran away 😄
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So kind ☺️
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*Ouch #WindowsonWednesday #AOfoto
A shop window with a giant starburst of cracks, held together with grey gaffer tape. 
(High Street, Perth)
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our headmaster Mr Maxim was giving us a lecture about being tenacious, which he illustrated by singing 'High Hopes' by Frank Sinatra. He'd obviously anticipated giggling at a certain word because he'd inserted the word 'India', making the last line "Oops there goes another India rubber tree plant".
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The Aesthetic of the Ordinary @aofoto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AO Magazine is finally here! AO = the aesthetic of the ordinary. Yet the ordinary can be special! Access and read for free. Let us know what you think! #aofoto #ECK #CityScape #Landscape #Photography #UrbanGaze #Scape #magazine #zine #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #art
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AO Autumn 2026 - Issue No 1
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Accidental painting #AOfoto
Patchily painted chipboard covering a broken shop window has a central oblong panel with a black border, making it look like a picture frame. Several bits of graffiti and a torn off poster add to the composition.

(Scott Street, Perth)
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We should bring that back, those electric knife sharpeners are too fierce. I've ruined good knives that way
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I see it's chaos at air traffic control again this morning
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If the black thing is the machine in question, then it looks a little like the pencil sharpening machine that teachers used to have clamped to their desks in the olden days when I was at school. Although how that would work for knives I've no idea
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the first edition of AO Magazine. Fabulous, inspiring work, interesting people and beautiful, clean design. A credit to all involved. Can't wait for the next one!
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😂 very true
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"For God's sake Miriam will you please go to the opticians! That tortoise you've been trying to feed lettuce to is a game pie, and I fear that poor hedgehog you've been brushing your hair with will never be the same again." #GirlsOwnCC
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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Secret Intelligence Service's Scottish HQ, Perth #SundayShadows
Sandstone garage with a black painted wooden door within a pair of white painted wooden doors. A letterbox in the woodwork has a black M made of gaffer tape stuck above it. 
(South William Street, Perth)
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