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Leid Freen

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Mostly I post photographs accompanied by captions in the Scots language (with English translations). Sorry, no DMs.

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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 3h
Airtin tae … ? Heading to … ? #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bridge #road #traffic #buildings #urban
A monochrome photograph. We are looking between the bars of railings and down onto a road in the centre of a city. A van and a few other vehicles are heading away from the camera.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gangers gang this gate. Pedestrians go this way. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bridge #pedestrians #urban
A monochrome photograph showing two sections of a sloping access ramp for a pedestrian bridge. The bridge itself is out of shot, although the underside of another bridge can be seen above. The two sections of ramp appear to form an on-its-side V-shape.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“This is Scottish Television, broadcasting from the Black Hill, Rothesay, Rosneath, Lethanhill, Craigkelly and Darvel transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority.” RIP Tony Currie, Scottish broadcaster and historian of broadcasting. #TonyCurrie #Scotland www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcC...
The Scottish Television ident from the 1970s: “STV” in squarish blue letters against a black background, with the words “Scottish Television” in white directly below them.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whan a plee is juist staunin. When a young gull is just standing. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bird #gull #nature #Clyde #river #Glasgow #Scotland
A monochrome photograph of a juvenile Lesser Black-Backed Gull (Larus fuscus) standing at the edge of the River Clyde in Glasgow. It is on the other side of railings from the riverside walkway. On the opposite bank of the river various modern buildings can be seen.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aich o a weird-man’s veesion. Echo of a prophet’s vision. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #art #prophet #vision #echo #grass #fence
A colour photograph manipulated to create an L-shaped area of vegetation. A fence forms part of the scene.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Verse ane o Estonie’s naitional anthem: Ma cauf grun, ma joy – delicht, Whit bonnie ye ar – whit bricht! Fur naegate i the warld aboot Can a bodie ivver fin siccan place Sae weel beluved, fae sense profun, Ma cauf kintra dear!
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ware in Estonie leuks richt bonnie. Spring in Estonia looks really pretty. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #art #Estonia #spring
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Art Limited @artlimited.net · 25/09/2026
Sans titre by Christian Robert Bruno www.artlimit... #streetphotography #streetlife #blackandwhite #urban #blackandwhitephotography #awesome_photographers #urbex #streetleaks #people #bnw_captures #streetart #blackandwhitephoto #photography #streetshot #life #street…
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The’ll be a gemm at the fitbaw doon-by. There will be a game of football down there. ‘The Rock’, home ground of Dumbarton FC. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #football #sport #DumbartonFC #Scotland
In this colour photograph we can see Dumbarton FC’s stadium as viewed from Dumbarton Rock. Hence, it is quite some way below us. To the ground’s left is the River Leven, while beyond the venue is Dumbarton and, further away, hills, mountains and clouds.
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Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This amazing find inspired me to make this wee illustration, I found it very evocative to imagine the early medieval churchyard at Govan could be a hive of activity and craft workers. Not just stone carving but jewellery as well
an illustration of a woman in early medieval clothing working on a piece of shale jewellery, in the top right corner is an enlarged depiction of the piece she is working on- a lump of shale being worked with a hole in the centre perhaps in the process of making a ring
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’ll awa up, fur aw we’r forfochen an disjaskit. We’ll go on up, for all that we’re exhausted and downcast. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #stone #steps #wall #greenery #vegetation
A colour photograph of some rather worn stone steps leading up to, through, and further up beyond a stone wall. A little greenery can be seen here and there.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gin a quine gits mairrit on sic a loon she’ll be shakkin a fit nae mair. If a young woman gets married to such a young man she’ll be dancing no more. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #music #traditionalmusic #folkmusic #Scotland #LizzieHiggins #singing www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7D2...
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Tak The Buckles Fae Your Shin
YouTube video by Lizzie Higgins - Topic
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Whit’s throuby? What’s through there? #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #hole #wall #stone #grass #trees #buildings
A colour photograph showing a view through a circular hole in a wall. The stonework is mostly in shadow and this contrasts with the brightness of the grass and trees visible through the hole.A colour photograph showing a view through a rectangular hole in a red stone wall. Through the hole we can see various buildings.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alt Clut wis aw by lang, lang syne, but the roke bides, stey an sture. Alt Clut was over with long, long ago, but the rock remains, steep and stern. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #rock #sky #clouds #swans #RiverLeven #AltClut #Dumbarton #Scotland
A monochrome photograph showing a view down the River Leven towards Dumbarton Rock. There are some swans in the river and part of the walkway can be seen. Dumbarton Rock was the capital of the Celtic kingdom of Alt Clut.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Girse, watter, braes, cluds. Grass, water, hills, clouds. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #grass #river #water #hills #sky #clouds #scenery
A colour photograph showing a view over a grassy hilltop and then across a river towards hills on the opposite bank. The sky is bright but cloudy.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Aiblins Merlin an Arthur stuid thegither on this heuchheid. Perhaps Merlin and Arthur stood together at the top of this precipice. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #rock #precipice #sky #clouds #tree #Merlin #Arthur #Dumbarton #Scotland
A monochrome photograph showing a precipice with a windowless stone structure on top. The sky is cloudy. In the top-left foreground are the branches of a tree.
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📷 Black and White and sometimes Color 📷 @thismaxpro.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Church in the night #Photography #blackandwhite #dark #bnw
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Weerin the roke. Defending the rock. These and other cannons were once used to protect Dumbarton Castle, #Scotland. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #monochrome #cannon #castle #Dumbarton #people #walls #grass
A monochrome photograph showing a view along the barrel of a cannon towards the River Clyde. On the opposite bank are hills above which is a cloudy sky. On either side of the cannon’s muzzle is a low wall.A colour photograph showing a cannon positioned at a wall as viewed from above. Part of the roof of a building can be seen below the wall, while beyond them a man and a woman are seated at a picnic table in a grassy area.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Juist snuvin alang. Just gliding along. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #swan #water #bird #nature #wildlife
A colour photograph processed to make it look rather like a painting. It shows an adult swan swimming.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Three: Melanie, trying to wake up in the morning.
I still have that little enamel saucepan at far right.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Caller an tae sell. Fresh and for sale. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #documentaryphotography #colour #Vietnam #Asia #HoiAn #vendor #food
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.dumbartoncastle.co.uk/the-french-prison Bi the abuin steid’s wey o’t, this biggin micht hae been yaised tae prison General Édouard François Simon durin the Napoleonic Weers. (English translation below.) #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #DumbartonCastle #Scotland #NapoleonicWars
A colour photograph showing a longish, two-story, eighteenth-century stone building: the French Prison, or Old Barracks, on Dumbarton Rock.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There’s thaim at says Merlin wis fae Pairtick an A’m keepin tae ma threap in howpin they’r richt. (English translation in 2/2.) #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #mural #Partick #Glasgow #Scotland #Merlin #art #urban #history #medieval #buildings #tenement
A colour photograph showing a view past a bus shelter towards a tenement gable end on which there is a mural depicting the head and shoulders of Merlin. He is wearing a purple hooded garment and holding a staff. Below his beard is the word ‘Partick’ in medieval-inspired lettering. The work is a collaboration between artists Voyder and Mark Worst.
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Mitchell Squid @mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brooklyn Botanical Garden Mitchell P #art
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mindin on an aulder Clyde. Remembering an older Clyde. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #stone #river #Clyde #Govan #Glasgow #Scotland #shipyard #grass
A colour photograph showing a horizontal block of polished grey stone. On the end facing the camera are inscribed the words ‘Harland Way’. The stone is surrounded by grass which borders a riverside walkway. Docked on the opposite bank of the river is a sailing ship, while beyond it are various buildings.

The Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan was one of the biggest on the River Clyde. The same firm built the Titanic in Belfast.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Staunin steive. Standing firm. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #building #brick #door #Sky #clouds
A monochrome photograph. We are looking up at a squarish modern building. The building is small and has a windowless brick facade. It does have a door, however, which has railings just outside it, plus a pair of handrails leading up to it. The right-hand facade of the building is in deep shadow. The sky is bright but rather cloudy.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Public #art in #Govan. A nearby plaque says: This is the probable site of the giant ‘Doomster Hill’ earthwork – parliament hill of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. It stood on this land for more than 1000 years before being levelled in 1850 for the shipyards. #photography #sculpture #Glasgow #Scotland
A photograph of a brown, rounded, metal object with a round hole through it. Below it, cobblestones can be seen.A photograph of a brown, metal art installation next to a riverside walkway. It comprises a number of roughly oval shapes, piled one on top of the other, each pointing in a different direction (more or less). The sculpture is crowned by a cog-like object.A photograph showing a grey, wooden, roughly egg-shaped object surrounded by grass. The object has been created to look as if it has cracked open.A photograph showing an object quite similar to the one in the previous photograph. A bridge and a tree are visible in the background.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Heedin aboot the Auld North. Taking notice of the Old North. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #music #MWSOG #Welsh #Gododdin #Brittonic #Celticmusic #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #Wales #Scotland #OldNorth www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgyP...
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Gododdin
YouTube video by MWSOG - Topic
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
At the hair-kaimer’s on a Seturday efternuin. At the hairdresser’s on a Saturday afternoon. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #pigeons #birds #nature
A photograph showing a pigeon using its beak to (apparently) groom another pigeon. They are on a beige-salmon surface.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wuid on a railins. Wood on railings. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #wood #woods #woodland #log #plants #trees #nature #railings
A photograph in which the end of a rather narrow log sits on top of green railings, its grainy cross section facing the camera at an angle. In the background are blurry woods.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The wuid wutch-bodie. #ScotsLeid #Scots #ScotsLanguage #joncarling #drawing #art #witch
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Pintin tae naitur. Pointing to nature. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #stone #carvings #grass #plants #weeds #nature #pointing
A photograph showing part of a grey rectangular carved stone. The stone appears to be pointing into an area of mainly brown grass and soil which also contains a little in the way of green grass and weeds.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Balderie Fur Aye Orchid Forever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSc... #ScotsLeid #Scots #ScotsLanguage #AmyAytchi #music #Glasgow #Scotland #Scottish #indiefolk #dreampop
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Orchid Forever
YouTube video by Amy Aytchi - Topic
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Plastic Mag @plasticmgzn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Amy Aytchi drops debut full-length record 'Cyclosis' | @amyaytchi.bsky.social #amyaytchi #cyclosis #new #music #newmusic #newmusicnow #debut #album #record #lp #dreampop #altpop #alternativepop #indiefolk #folk #artist #singersongwriter #glasgow #scotland #uk #ukmusic #plastic #plasticmag
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Amy Aytchi releases debut album
Glasgow’s Amy Aytchi has spent the first chapters of her musical story turning profoundly personal experiences into something dreamlike, strange and immersive. Her ethereal indie sound takes cues from...
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The pattren hes laundit. The pattern has landed. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #knitting #rock #grass #plants #nature #pentagon
A photograph showing a piece of roughly pentagonal knitted material sitting on a small rock surrounded by grass and small plants. The material has a grey, a red and two white sections. The photograph has been processed so that only the material and a small part of the soil/grass is in colour.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A gliff o a craitur. A glimpse of a creature. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #concrete #tree #creature #insect #nature
A photograph in which an area of grey concrete occupies most of the bottom half of the image area. We are looking over the edge of this concrete object. The middle third of the edge of the object is set back and the lower part of a tree trunk extends from this area to the top of the picture. The area to the left and right of the tree is a greenish yellow. Barely discernable is a small yellowish creature on the edge of the concrete block, towards the right.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Howpin ye’ll no git yer heid in yer hauns fur bein ahint. Hoping you won’t be severely punished for being late. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #art #surrealism #time #clock
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@billykayscot.bsky.social My latest blog piece, Graham Grant's glaikit attack on the status of Scots as a language proves Billy Kay's point that unionist "patriotic" Scots are in fact not patriotic Scots at all. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/g...
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Graham Grant’s glaikit attack on the Scots language
You have probably never heard of Graham Grant, which is a great blessing. Grant is the home affairs editor of the Scottish Daily Mail, a far right rag which devotes itself to stories about celebs a…
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Amy Laurenson gaun hir bonnie dinger on the pianie. Amy Laurenson really going for it on the piano. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #music #traditionalmusic #Shetland #reel #piano #AmyLaurenson www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2YT...
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Shetland Reels
YouTube video by Amy Laurenson - Topic
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There a burd upby, but it’s no fleein. There’s a bird up there, but it’s not flying. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #lamppost #bird #sky #clouds #Glasgow #Scotland 🧵1/3
A colour photograph showing a lamppost silhouetted against a bright, cloudy sky. The outline of a bird’s feathers can be seen protruding from the top of the lamppost. Parts of the upper sections of two buildings are visible in the bottom right of the picture.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hooses an cycle shalter in Govan. Aince in a day Govan wis the releegious an poleetical hert o the Keengdom o Strathclyde. (English translation below.) #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #houses #cycling #Govan #Strathclyde #Glasgow #Scotland #history
A monochrome photograph showing the white gable end of a postwar house. Similar housing can be seen in the background. In front of the gable end is a cycle hangar sitting on cobble stones.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The gruns o Govan Auld Pairish Kirk. Is Dyfnwal, a keeng o Strathclyde, an his wife (at the nem o hir we dinna ken) yirdit hereawa? #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #church #trees #grass #paving #pigeon #Dyfnwal #Strathclyde #Govan #Glasgow #Scotland English translation below.
A colour photograph showing a lawn leading up to Govan Old Parish Church, which is half-hidden by a tree. In the foreground is a paved area on which a pigeon is walking.
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Mitchell Squid @mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s a wonderful world Mitchell P #art
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bittockie blate? A tiny bit shy? #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #art #abstract #shapes #shyness
A rather abstract drawing. A curvy, pink ‘X’ shape has a yellow, red-eyed head on each of its points.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The lifie lass, Angharad Ton Velen, buid gang awa? The lively maiden, Angharad Ton Velen, had to go away? #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #art #AltClut #Rhydderch #history #tree #clouds #sky #Dumbarton #Glasgow #Scotland
A monochrome photograph. On the right-hand side of the picture is an area of pitch black, the left edge of which slopes from the top to the bottom of the image area. The rest of the photograph is occupied by a cloudy sky, with the silhouette of the upper branches of a tree at the bottom.
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'When I wis cook aboot the hoose an he wis but a laddie, I gied him aw ma breid an ale tae be ma bairnie’s daddy.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfU... #ScotsLeid #Scots #ScotsLanguage #music #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #Scotland #Scottish #FisherFamily #RayFisher #ArchieFisher
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Aince Upon a Time
YouTube video by The Fisher Family - Topic
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Throu the lift. Through the sky. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #buildings #church #flagpole #people #sky #light #Glasgow #Scotland
A brown-tinted monochrome photograph. A church and other buildings are silhouetted against a cloudless sky. People can be discerned in the pedestrian precinct in the foreground. A funnel-like streak of light seems to shoot into the sky from between the church tower and a flagpole a little to the left of the tower.
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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/08/2026
Glasgow's Grand Hotel of 1880 by James Thomson, pictured in 1968. It had 105 rooms, a grand ballroom, a cocktail bar, and nine function rooms, and embodied the opulence and glamour of the Victorian era. In its design, Thomson drew inspiration from the buildings of Paris. #Glasgow
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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Fauld yer hochs or haud gaun. Sit down or keep going. Seat: Sate (Scots); Suidheachan (Gaelic); Cadeir (Cumbric). #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #man #settee #seat #bridge #Gaelic #Cumbric #CelticLanguages #Strathclyde #Scotland
A photograph showing a view along the pavement of a road bridge. There is a man in the middle distance walking away from the camera. In the foreground is a ripped orange settee with its back to the bridge’s green balustrade. In the distance are trees.
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