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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Annual trip to the Tenement House with my Strathclyde Housing Law class for a bit of history/legal geography. Only issue was the record player and accompanying 80s vinyl collection usually in the café was being used for an exhibition (with these materials to engage with instead). Still a great venue

archive stuff and games at Tenement House

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas | Nollaig Chridheil

Decorated Christmas tree, featuring a needlepoint with "fuck cancer".

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A public access to land sign for Halloween.

Sign on a wall surrounded by Halloween decorations saying

NO TRESPASSING WE'RE TIRED OF HIDING THE BODIES

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A new photo entry to my folder of dubious access signage, albeit I can be happy that this one is firmly tongue in cheek.

Hanging garden sign that says "Trespassers will be composted"

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Fair enough. There are tickets available in C3 still, FYI (see image from the online shop), so if you bought however many else you need directly I'm sure they'd be able to sit together on the night (it won't be 100% attended).

Image of ticket purchase portal at Hampden

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

And lo! There was a chance! What a shootout! What an organised (if at times riding our luck) performance. Scenes. Here's a photo of the boy in front of me conjuring fire in the celebration. #fitba #COYR

Celebrations at Hampden after Dons win the Cup

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And the final hill. A bit of a construction site at the top of this one.

Photo from the top of a hill on a sunny day

Photo from the top of a hill on a sunny day, with a building site and antennae.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Four photos from the first Munro of the day, which it's fair to say was not the most taxing.

View from the top of a hill on a sunny day

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Went up three hills. In the old country, I used to post N, W, S and E photos for people to #namethathill. Here's summit photos from one of them.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Great to attend an event hosted by the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (with the British Institute for Energy Economics) at the uni tonight, on powering a community energy revolution in Scotland. Prof @matthannon.bsky.social kicked us off, then passed the baton to Prof Karen Turner

A man stands behind a lectern giving a speech, with a PowerPoint behind him.

A woman stands behind a lectern giving a speech, with a PowerPoint behind him.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Happy to confirm operation Boxing Day risotto for the Combe family was a success (one made with turkey stock, another with a cube of veggie stock). Photoed: the wee tub of leftovers, for my lunch tomorrow.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Great to see the Dons showing solidarity with the WASPI campaign through their choice of kit today. #fitba #COYR #COYW

Snip of Aberdeen FC tweet, which reads A festive Matchday in Ayrshire [wasp emoji] [tree emoji]

Original image is of Captain Shinnie in a black and yellow away top, with text

Matchday.
Kilmarnock v Aberdeen.
Thursday 26th December. 3pm kick-off.
The BBSP Stadium Rugby Park.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Just in time for Christmas, a special issue of the Juridical Review has been published. (I sit on the editorial board.) This special issue on Moveable Transactions Reform considers the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023, which comes into force April 2025. The perfect read for the holidays.

Cover of a law journal, with text:

THE JURIDICAL REVIEW

The Law Journal of the Scottish Universities

Special Issue

Moveable Transactions Reform

Guest Editor: Professor Andrew J. M. Steven

Intro

A MacUlpian Meal: Debating Reform of Moveable Transactions Law

The Impetus for a New Moveable Transactions Law

The Need for Reform: A Practitioner's Experiences

International Perspectives on the Assignation Reforms in Scotland

Assigning Rights in Scotland v England

The Solutions & Challenges of the New Scottish Assignation in Securitisations

Reflections on the Future of Moveable Security in Scotland: Property & Ranking Challenges

Shares & the Scottish Statutory Pledge

Security & New Asset Types in Scotland: The Possibilities of "Further Kinds of Incorporeal Property"

A Trend Towards Registered Pledges-The Scots Law Reform of Security Over Moveable Property from a Continental European Perspective

Secured Transactions Law Reform: Key Drivers, Challenges, & International Principles.

It also has details of the publisher (W. Green) and says "2024 Part 4".

Back cover of law journal with contents page, listing authors, article title and page numbers (full title described in photo 1), plus publication details and a link to ProView ebook by Thomson Reuters https://info proview.thomsonreuters.com/en.html

Andrew J. M. Steven

Introduction

G. L. Gretton

A MacUlpian Meal...

James Drummond Young

The Impetus for a New Moveable Transactions Law

R. Bruce Wood

The Need for Reform...

Orkun Akseli

International Perspectives on the Assignation Reforms in Scotland

Magda Raczynska

Assigning Rights in Scotland v England

Chike Emedosi

The Solutions and Challenges of the New Scottish Assignation in Securitisations

Alisdair MacPherson

Reflections on the Future of Moveable Security in Scotland...

J. Hardman

Shares and the Scottish Statutory Pledge

Sean Thomas

Security and New Asset Types in Scotland...

Caroline Sophie Rapatz

A Trend Towards Registered Pledges...

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Balleil

Secured Transactions Law Reform...

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So this was me on Thursday, where I was part of a cracking panel during an afternoon plenary session at the aforementioned heritage conference at Strathclyde. Great to share the stage with Professor Janeen Carruthers of @uofglaw.bsky.social and Dr Thomas Muinzer from Aberdeen.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Went to a gig at the Usher Hall last night - Jason Isbell and his band. Excellent stuff.

Jason Isbell and band on stage at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, with lots of fans in the audience. Guitarist dualling is spotlighted on the left.

Jason Isbell and band on stage at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, with lots of fans in the audience.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Today, it's the Stair Society annual lecture, by Cynthia Neville, entitled "March Law as Auld Law in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Legal Traditions". In the photo she is introduced by Sarah Wolffe.

Sarah Wolffe stands at a lectern to introduce Cynthia Neville, who sits at a desk. An audience watches on in a Faculty of Advocates building. A slide reads:

March Law as Auld Law in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Legal Traditions

Stair Society Annual Lecture 16 November 2024

Dr Cynthia J. Neville, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Adjunct Professor of History, and member Centre for Scottish Studies, Guelph, Ontario,

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Today I'm attending a seminar to honour the contribution to scholarship of Professor Kenneth McK. Norrie at the University of Strathclyde, entitled "The Person in Scotland and the World: 40 Years of Private Law Reform", supported by the Clark Foundation. Well done to colleagues for organising this.

Dr Alyson Evans stands behind a lectern speaking to an audience at Strathclyde.

Seminar with Dr Lynsey Mitchell speaking an audience from behind a lectern.

Screen capture of the first bit of a University of Strathclyde programme for "The Person in Scotland and the World: 40 Years of Private Law Reform

A seminar to honour the contribution to scholarship of Professor Kenneth McK. Norrie"

Then event particulars, including:

Friday 15 November 2024

University of Strathclyde Technology & Innovation Centre, 99 George St. Glasgow. G1 1RD

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

So I went to the Mòd in Oban and I took a grand total of three photos. One was of Major Duncan McCaig, one of the M'Caig siblings that gave us so much glorious litigation (about trusts & wills etc.): when I saw him in our pre-performance rehearsal space I just had to get a photo. I regret nothing.

A bust of Duncan McCaig in the Corran Halls in Oban. Duncan looks vaguely bronze, with a handlebar moustache and in regimental uniform, but has no arms or anything below his pelvis.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

So there's a lot of awful things happening in the world, but here's a photo of the dhal I made in my slow cooker today which I'm pretty chuffed with really. #tweetyourtea

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Some intriguing landscaping next to the Scottish Parliament/Holyrood Park, with these desire lines being formalised/reinforced. I've heard tell of this happening on e.g. university campuses when new buildings are made, and before programmed paths go in footfall is instead awaited.

Temporary fencing, behind which well-trodden paths can be seen between patches of grass and trees. Some of the dirt paths have white lines on their outside. Towards the rear of the photo wooden boundaries to the paths have been installed.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Au contraire, Stornoway Gazette, I think you'll find Seonaidh is not hitting the high note: he is clearly playing a low A.

Photo of Trail West piper from a newspaper, playing a low A.

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Given it's a ferry terminal, I suppose I'll allow this "NO ACCESS TO FORESHORE" shtick, but I was primed to tell anyone who asked about the common law ius spatiandi and/or statutory rights of access if anyone has asked. No-one asked.

Ferry terminal at the Clyde, with a metal fence between the water and car park. One sign says NO FISHING, two say NO ACCESS TO FORESHORE

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Great to attend the launch of the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC). Professor @matthannon.bsky.social - Director of SISC - introduced the day, and explained that this is the right time, the right city and the right university for this institute.

Matt Hannon standing at a lectern speaking to an audience at Strathclyde Uni. Behind him is a slide that says:

Background

To date decarbonisation has been achieved through the power sector, with relatively little involvement from consumers and clitzens

Achieving a just transition towards sustainable development demands fundamental transformation of almost all aspects of our society and economy, such as how we heat, eat, work and travel.

These changes rely on more decentralised decision making from citizens...

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Merry Christmas | Nollaig Chridheil

A decorated Christmas tree with a needlework that says "fuck cancer"

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Malcolm Combe @malcolmcombe.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Hullo, Bluesky. Tonight I made some soup. #soup 🍲

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