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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My old air raid shelter. Was never inside it even though it was meant to be shared. I had other interests in the second half of the 80s. 🍺

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2nd day Irish Stew here - comfort food after the trauma of Pittodrie 🤪

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

She probably beats you hands down at scrabble though

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

From Montrose’s Covenanters vs Viscount Aboyne’s Royalist cavalry at the Brig o’ Dee in 1639 to bikes vs crocs at the George VI Bridge in 2026. Four centuries and a half mile of progress in Aberdeen’s approach to armed conflict.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sure Thomas Reid would have approved of a fellow Aberdonian lecturing on the roots of Common Sense.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I used Higgins when I studied Mech Eng and then used it later trying to understand some physics of failure problems when I morphed into Reliability Engineering

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The infamous 'Wallgate' controversy. Writing was on the wall for him as he lost the election he was running in at the time.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, temporarily I think. They said the old function only covered a small % of articles - new illustrated function meant to be coming soon.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've changed my mind about the new BNA newspaper archive system now I'm getting better search results. Found an 1881 report of a fire here that destroyed the machinery helping me date the machinery we still have. There are still burn marks on some of the beams, though fires were common in mills.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a habit of inspecting bookshelf's I see in posts, so was having a nosey at yours. 📚 As a retired engineer, I'm with you on Stroud's Further Maths, Higgins Properties of Engineering Materials and the Machinery Handbook. (not so sure about Oliver's Coast though)

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The waterwheel in the National Museum of Scotland came from a limestone quarry, presumably to power a pump for keeping the workings dry. Coincidentally, we have a water-filled limestone quarry right next to our old mill… #LimestoneQuarry

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Picked up this old waterwheel, complete with crank & connecting rod, at a second-hand yard recently. Very similar to this one in the National Museum in Edinburgh, where the same crank-connecting rod arrangement converts the wheel’s rotation into the reciprocating motion for a pump. #waterwheels

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to giving this delayed #Freedom250 lecture in US Consulate General tomorrow. It's a good time to dwell on the roots of the term 'Common Sense'. @sahavoice.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social @ahallardyce.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Edinburgh also had firms supporting corn and meal milling technologies. J. Smith & Son built millstones and were known for the assembling French Burr composites. Here is my French Burr composite millstone with the metal band holding the segments together. #millstones #Edinburgh

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Strongly agree. Technology is never simply ’technical’. Technological systems are socially constructed with choices, and values. That’s why I agree humanities are essential alongside STEM. As an engineer, I used this work extensively during my own humanities studies.

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD in 1750. A fearless satirist and poetic innovator in Scots language and tradition, he is one of the most erudite and influential Scottish writers. Watch this space for my new edition of his works, out with Edinburgh University Press in February!

Bronze sculpture of Robert Fergusson by David Annand, outside Edinburgh's Canongate Kirkyard. He is looking up and out with a book in his hand.

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Doric Studio @doricstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One week today it’s the return of North East Open Studios We are opening our doors for you to visit, ask us stuff, have a nosey, buy some of our awesome things and get a look at screen printing up close! Saturday 12th September 10-5pm Sunday 13th September 10-5pm

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Please get in touch with us if you have any queries about this upcoming event: womenshistoryscotland.org/contact-us/ For details about the venue, including accessibility queries: www.culturepk.org.uk/library/ak-b...

womenshistoryscotland.org

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I do like Edinburgh though& also studied here, but more importantly, saw the Dandy Dons win the League at both Easter Road and Tynecastle (80 & 84)

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Visit to Edinburgh today - first to National Records 📃 , then Sandy Bells 🍺 🎶 , then son’s new student flat

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It feels strange to say that I’ve submitted the Collected Works of Robert Fergusson to @edinburghup.bsky.social… feeling equally relieved and bereft! But delighted that the edition is on its way in early 2027. Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for being a brilliant RA and all who supported ❤️

Bronze sculpture of poet Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirk.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It was my big/main 40th birthday present!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My tenuous link to John Maclean: his daughter married Ellice Milton, the brother of my stepmother’s mother, Meg Milton. Meg told me how, at the start of the war, she brought her friend and workmate Nan home to meet the family in Elgin.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I checked with Walter - still John of Fordun in our house

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve got something like this in my quarry - a war trophy given to Oldmeldrum and dumped in 1920. Next year for retrieval! 🤞 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bury St Edmunds museum saves WW1 howitzer gun from scrapyard

The war relic, pushed into a river by a disgruntled veteran a century ago, is due to be restored.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also sad about Canmore, but highly frustrated by BNA’s euphemistically described ‘reshaped research experience’

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Been retired since Jan - need to go back to work for a rest! (Just just a bridge though!)

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The departure of young promising players without ever getting a run has been an issue for some time. (was at Dens last week, awful)

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Have a ticket for an event in Dundee later though! COYR

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Visiting the NLS archives in Edinburgh today, having travelled from Oldmeldrum to consult an item only to discover that the “item” is actually just a listing of the manuscripts. And where are the manuscripts themselves held? Oldmeldrum. 🤦‍♂️

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New app search only shows limited no. of services - ‘Earlier’ or ‘Later’ options have gone - you have to go back and manually adjust search each time.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My exact bedroom view in 80’s. Straight line from Mid-Stocket (first flat) though Abdn Maternity (born) to where I grew up up (Northfield). 🎯

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I was looking at DJI drones as well. Suppose you need to be careful when when familiarising in case you ‘lose’ it over some nearby houses.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A director will need a new Braid Claith to mak a kailworm a butterfly.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Serendipitous find of the day! A 3 ft waterwheel, almost exactly a quarter-scale replica of my own 12 ft mill wheel. Too good to leave behind. Next project, refurbishing it and installing it in the burn alongside the old mill stream. Watch this space… #waterwheels

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

One thing I do miss about work is ‘conferences’ in nice European cities. One of my last boondoggles before retirement was at a venue next to Christianshavn. Halcyon days!

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Can’t beat a stroll down the Strøget in summer.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Too many meh games with so many teams, but Portugal vs Spain tonight looks tasty

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Congratulations, a well deserved honour. I was there and enjoyed listening to the advice you gave the graduates, which included my daughter.

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I could tell stories about that building.. 😀

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Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

That was once my garden! Well shared garden - my first flat in the 80s - 2nd floor right as you go up stairs (has the 1899 carving under the chimney out front)

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