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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel heartsore for my alma mater and friends & ex-colleagues & students at Celtic & Scottish Studies and to all the departments at the Edinburgh University which have had 90 courses culled. This is destruction. This is cultural vandalism. Shame on Edinburgh University #EthnologyForever

list of undergraduate courses at edinburgh uni which have been cut in School of languages literature & culture

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hi #sewsky does anyone know of a shirt pattern which looks close to this? I had this MNG top c.2000 and wore it til it wore out. it has great structure to it, in a stable woven. been looking to recreate it.

Shirt on a mannequin. the shirt has wide 3/4 length sleeves and a pointed collar . it has a deep v neck to a seam beloe the bust. The top bust detail has a slight wrap detail.

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Noticing 17.3.26 two starlings, like two notes awaiting the rest of the melody

2 starlings sitting on a wire. there’s a wire above them and below

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Noticing 14.3.26 A tet o’ ‘oo’ dancing on a stock fence in the breeze, while a curlew calls in the near distance.

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Such fun at @gaada.bsky.social doing tetrapak printing with chine colle. loved it

a print studio table. various colourful mono printed papers and tetrapak plates of flagstones. in the background strips of colour paper hang drying

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

also you may appreciate this boardbook 😂

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Lovely to see the Pride Progress flag swaaapin proudly on top of the Lerwick Toon Hall, for #LGBTQHistoryMonth

the pride profess flag flying magestically over the town hall

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

there’s a reason i’m always looking down.

an aloof cat , called Tommy, runs along a path of paving stones which range in colours from buff & ochre, greens and greys and a very burgundy/pink!

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

playing with the colours of bressay sandstone tonight

two watercolour doodlings a stone wall and a foot path.

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

3 yrs ago, to almost the hour. Last #BusStopSelfie after my last walk to my last day at work at SSSA at Ed Uni. on precipice of last few days living in Edinburgh, in what would be last few days of a marriage. Went forward with positivity and never looked back yet with anything other than gratitude

a 45 year old woman takes a selfie reflecting in a bus stop. there are also a series of rectangular lights reflecting too stretching out beyond her

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Noticing 15.12.25 Gorse doesn’t really grow in Shetland and i miss seeing it in abundance, but there is one or two patches in Bressay and I love them for being here!

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Today I learned a bit about Photo etching and embraced the challenges. I also got to express ideas and felt like no ask was silly. I’m absolutely loving this process of learning at @gaada.bsky.social and thoroughly grateful for their support. #AmIAnArtist - not sure, but I am a very full cup

soft light of a dark room. a pair of hands hold a photo plate which has been exposed to UV light. photo is out of focus

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Noticing 22.11.25 I got up on a stage and told a story about this man - my Daddad - and how he helped me find my own meaning to this word. I feel mighty. Incredible evening of amazing stories from wonderful people.

2 passport style strips of photos in black and white of a young man with brylcreamed hair and kinda matinee idol looks. each picture is a different pose of his head & shoulders

A printed word using letter press reads Defiant in a bold type. and through the i grows a resilient leafy vine

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

UGHHH!! I stopped purchasing from Am@zon over a year ago for so many reasons. I did not know other companies use them for shipping! Boots Photo now have to go on my list!

snap from an email which says Amazon shipping are handing my photo processing order

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Oh my goodness! that was fun!!

copper plate etched with a seed head
and loose seeds

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Noticing 9.11.25 a slime mould? - seen so much of it of late in Bressay

something akin to vomit coating a clump of grass

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

favourite animal pic I’ve taken, you ask? This splendid snipe in Papa Stour this spring is my favourite

a splendid snipe on a fence post looks over a spring field

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

actual footage of me this morning. I AM SO TIRED. Off to a creative workshop and fear i have no creative energy left. Really want to go though, if i can get up!

carved turnip lantern with red rimmed eyes and gnarled smile

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

a lovely sight to see this lunchtime. Halos around the sun were often portents of bad weather but who knows!

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Well! Philip Pullman & @libro.fm if you know how loud i squealed when i saw the notification this morning - Volume 3 - The Rose Field is out!!

screenshot of libro.fm app (great amazon/audible alternative) showing the cover of the last book in phillip pullman’s Book of Dust series

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

hasn’t turned up, forced to get creative with my cardigan to keep my thrapple covered

Louise wears a blue cardigan like a scarf

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Ahhh bums! i think my favourite shawl has fallen off in Luss. If you happen to be in #Luss and you find it, please let me know. I can tell you the pattern, the yarn, and even where the sheep who gave the wool came from!

Louise stands with her back to camera holding a big triangle shawl which is white, light grey , dark grey and black

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

New view for a couple of days to help with creative thinking

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This morning’s task was to sort patterns recently printed by Roberts&Rose (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿A0 printer rec) Ashton top & falconer pants by @helenscloset.bsky.social & @sewliberated.bsky.social Arenite pants. Plotting an Ashton/Arenite Terry Pj set

pile of 3 sewing patterns in clear plastic folders. The ashton top pattern falconer pants & arenite pants

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Post you from a different era Hanging out on the estate with my bairn circa 1983

tiny louise - with a lego head hair do - in a fur hooded parka, posing with a tiny pram

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

ahhh @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social has books by poet Andrea Gibson, on Libby. I discovered their work during covid and I know a lot of people did. Some only hearing them due to their death recently. A great way with words.

screenshot of libby app showing ebooks You Better Be Lighting and Lord of th Butterflies by Andrea gibson

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

i once knew a sad person who said “you can never see the end of a rainbow, because it’s only ever superimposed into the sky” every time i see the end i post it.

a beautiful end of a rainbow , shining onto an island and reflecting onto the sea ripples

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Noticing 5.10.25 never seen so much waar (seaweed) on this beach. Storm Amy surely delivered- possibly brought up by recent dredging too. There was seaweed over the fences too (out of picture)

small beach usually sandy is covered in brown seaweed over the high tide line

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Today I am thinking about things

water colour palettes and strips of paper covered in splotches of colours

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Please, H-m-H / Bacchus , dont tell your friends. My heart cant take another rescue 🤣! Be well and hibernate safely

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

update from Hans-my-Hedgehog who has been released into the garden of the Blessed Batesons, so much happier than they were on saturday night when found rolling around. “Every stop I make, I’ll make a new friend / Can’t stay for long, just turn around and I’m gone again.” -littlest hobo

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

dispatches from pals. doing well this morning , still little roll onto left from time to time. wee sweetie

a perfect wee hedgehog curled up on their back in a pair of gloved kindly hands.

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Yesterday’s #Noticing a roly poly hedgehog. couldn’t walk in a straight line if a cop asked them to. currently in a box in my kitchen. Tho no #SSPCA here and no car to drive them anywhere and no vet on the isle. so i’m going to have a coffee & a think

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

well, given that today is Tuesday 23rd September, I think i better take this book out!

inside jacket blurb of the book Earth to Earth by John Cornwell which reads “On Tuesday morning, 23 September 1975, the corpses of three unmarried siblings, last surviving members of the ancient Luxton clan of Winkleigh, North Devon, were found on their remote farm.
All three had had their heads blown off. Robbie's cheeks and neck had been stabbed; Frances had a broken leg. Strangely, each of the four doors to the house had been locked from the inside.
The Luxtons' idyllic farm on a stretch of lush countryside between Exmoor and Dartmoor had been lovingly tended with outdated methods.
There were rumours of a thwarted betrothal, wrangles over money and property, generational feuds in the extended family, bouts of insanity and extreme miserliness.”

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Noticing 23.925 Didn’t need to see the frosty dusting to know that it’s a much crisper morning! Hello *actual* autumn !

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My bookish post this week is so pleasingly coordinated! Goodies from Design for Today and @damianbarr.bsky.social’s The Two Roberts, which i’ve been impatiently waiting for ever since pre-orders were announced! oh the joy of books landing at my door ! #Booksky

three books on a white cloth. All on beautiful matching hues of peach pink and blue. Hello Riso by Beth Izatt, The two Roberts by Damian Barr and a notebook from Design for Today

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Noticing 02.08.25 Just when i think the banks flooers (sea pinks) have had their summer i see a sprinkling still holding on

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Noticing 19.7.25 new appreciation for a local wall having recently seen an old picture of my Uncle Joe building it

dry stone dyke and some marvellous tufted grasses (feathertops)

a beautiful corner on a dry stone dyke, made from mainly flat or rectangular stone

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Noticing 18.7.25 saw my first crocosmia of the year

a bright, smashing orangey red crocosmia or montbretia growing through a brilliant blue wooden fence

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Noticing 12.06.25 a plentiful episode of #VergeAppreciation red sooriks (sorrel), Spring Squill , Buggieflooers (campion) and … Is it Devil’s paintbrush?

two spears of sorrel in a green verge, covered in earthy red blossoms and two dabs of cuckoo spit

tiny lilac squill, star shaped flowers looking sublime

plump of cerise campion growing by the door of and old shed

possible devil’s paint brush. a single stem topped with a juicy orange flower and a series of dark buds surrounding it

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Noticing 5.6.25 seeing my first unfurling Seggie (Flag) of the year!

a yellow flag is stretching out yellow petals, some still tightly furled

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Louise @louiselooklisten.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Noticing 2.6.25 Spotting my first “curly dodie” of the year

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