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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Glorious week on the Northumbrian coast. Cannae beat it here when the sun shines! 🏰☀️🌊❤️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Praying for our new Bishop-elect as she prepares to move from Ely to @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social ! 🙏

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This visual is the content I am here for! 👏👏👏 #bm100

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Wow. 70% attrition on Loop 1… better than last year, but not much! Now to work out who’s who, maybe?! #bm100 #brutalbimble

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Will Roberts @willbaldlygo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Now we’re serious #bm100

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FrenchieResistance @frenchieresistance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’ve got you. Mural for Alex Pretti in Seattle by Topsy

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Marie Curie (w/husband Pierre) discovered radium #OTD in 1898. It revolutionized #science & launched radioactivity, nuclear physics & cancer therapy. They won the 1903 Nobel in Physics & she became the only person to win a Nobel in 2 science categories with her 1911 Nobel in Chemistry. #WomenInSTEM

A split black-and-white historical photograph featuring two portraits of Marie Curie. On the left: A formal studio portrait from 1895 showing a young Pierre Curie and Marie Curie standing side by side. Pierre, on the left, is a man with a short beard and mustache, wearing a dark three-piece suit with a white shirt, with a serious expression. Marie, on the right, is a young woman with her hair pulled back in an updo, wearing a high-necked dark dress with puffed sleeves and fur trim at the collar, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, composed expression. On the right: A later portrait from around 1920 of an older Marie Curie alone, facing the camera directly. She has gray hair styled loosely and pulled back, and is wearing a dark blouse with a distinctive patterned bow tie at the collar. Her expression is serious and resolute.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

New ministry, new flat, same bottle of malt (Springbank) as last year, I think! Merry Christmas! 🥃🎄⭐️ #ClergyMaltClub

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What did you do in your holidays? I’m doing Thought for the Day! Catch me live on BBC Radio Scotland at about 07.23, or catch up on Good Morning Scotland on BBC Sounds. #GMS

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Bishop John Armes @bishopjohnarmes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

There is so much to celebrate about the life of Pope Francis, and therefore also a deep sense of loss at his passing. He truly set an example of faithfulness to Christ. And how amazing that he has died in the context of Easter with its message of hope for salvation and new life. (1/3)

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

250% uplift in communicant numbers today compared to a ‘normal’ Sunday at St Anne’s Dunbar! Plus a baptism and the blessing of a civil partnership. I think we can say ‘He is risen!’. Oh, and a liturgical lace change, just in time for the festivities! ⚓️

Patent black doc marten boots with white laces, standing on grass.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Holy Saturday, and I literally found Jesus on Dunbar High St! I thought he was supposed to be busy harrowing hell?!

Tiny Jesus held by Pausingplace, with pavement in the background.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Give me Holy Saturday over Christmas Eve any day. #HolySaturday

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lest we forget how far the world has still to go, I just received a delivery (at home, in Scotland) from a driver who saw my dog collar and exclaimed (in broad Glaswegian)… “A wumman minister?! That the modern world, eh?!” Reader, the Kirk has been ordaining women since 1968! 🤦‍♀️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What with all the toxic stuff going on in the world, I’ll take a rainbow whenever I can find one.

A street leading to the sea, with a yellow house on one side, a white one on the other, and beyond them, in the ocean and overhead, a rainbow.

Double half rainbow over a golf course and a shoreline.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Nine years of Oswald Doglet! 🐶❤️🎂

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Diocese of Edinburgh @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

❓ Heard of Dunbar Debt Advice Service? 🤝 The inter-church collaboration involves St Anne's Dunbar, the Salvation Army and other churches. 💷 Visit our bio link for the East Lothian Courier article on how the Service has helped 97 clients. 💰 They support anyone in need. Google 'Dunbar Debt Advice'.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Edinburgh, 11 degrees and sunny. Taps aff!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Farewell session with the youth at Harbour Lights Xtra this afternoon. These Friday sessions have been some of the most fun times in my ministry in Dunbar. As you can see, sometimes you can have your cake AND eat it. But I lost my pool shark crown - you can tell by T’s smile!! ⚓️ #anglican

Pausingplace (trying to eat a whole cake) and some smiley teenagers.

Cake reading ‘thanks Diana. God bless and farewell’.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Ok, #ministry peeps. What’re your top tips for good endings & beginnings in ministry transitions? I’m in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, coming to the end of my first incumbency (semi-rural, fairly liberal low church #Episcopalian), taking up 2 urban charges - 1 traditional, 1 contemporary, low church plant. #anglican ⚓️📚

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Clergy housing. 🤯 That is all. ⚓️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Made it onto the big screen st the #NationalOutdoorExpo at the NEC today, in the Great Norse Run 2024 film screening! 🤩🏃‍♀️ #iceland #trailrun

Big screen at the NEC showing Pausingplace running on a path. Audience watching the screen.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My turn on Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland today… Setting my face against the gloomy news and focusing on the ☀️ 😎 Listen back here (from 1h22m20) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻 📡 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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davidblank1.bsky.social @davidblank1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Number of loop 1 finishers in under 12 hours: 2025: 6 2024: 20 2023: 30 2022: 28 2021: 12 (covid, US only) 2019: 23 2018: 14 2017: 17 2016: 27 2015: 19 One of these things is not like the other 😬 #BM100

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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The next runner to finish Loop 1 came in at 11:59:02. laz: Are you ok? Runner: I’m Barkley ok. #BM100

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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

After multiple failed attempts, the conch was blown at 10:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.

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Oli Hague @oli-hague.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

For those with serious #bm100 itches, there's a superb new documentary from last year's epic now online. youtu.be/uyX4GRm7NeY?...

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The Edge of Possible: A Barkley Marathons Tale (Full Documentary)

YouTube video by Epic Tales

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It’s ’waiting for the Conch to be sounded’ season! #BM100

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Trail #run with #Spaniels. Joy! 🏃‍♀️🐶🐶☀️🙌🏻

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Last year’s palms, fire and Oil of Chrism. Death and life all held together in the hope through the cross. #AshWednesday #Lent

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If I wanted to read into transgender theology, where would be good starting places, please? (Haters need not reply!) #theology ⚓️📚

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Big news in Scotland… 🙄🐦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Clip from BBC news website with headline ‘Gull saved from Paisley bin seen on Moroccan beach’.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Just two rectory #spaniels playing the bitey face game. As you do on a Wednesday afternoon. 🐶🐶❤️ …You’re welcome! #dogspam #spanielsofbluesky

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My turn on Thought for the Day on Radio Scotland this am, with a thought about prisons and restorative justice. Catch up on BBC Sounds at about 1h20mins in. #bbcgms

Pausingplace in the BBC Radio Scotland studio

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The building of Notre Dame continues! It’s now 1225, and nave flyers are fitted with channels that drain rainwater from the roof through the gargoyles. #Lego #Cathedral #NotreDame

Rainwater channels are fitted to the nave flyers.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

You can tell he had a great day when he settles in like this! #spaniel #dayoff #snooze

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Knitted Bible is at St Anne’s Church, Dunbar this weekend. It’s all quite bonkers!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Edinburgh Diocesan Synod today… and +John’s last, so Dean Frances is introducing how we will go about discerning and electing a new Bishop after +J retires in August.

Photo of diocesan synod with the Dean at the lectern and a slide saying ‘calling a bishop’ and showing a shepherd’s crook

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My running has been a bit hit and miss lately… work has needed a lot of my attention. So it was good to get out this afternoon, even on a grey day.

Photo of my Garmin on my wrist, showing a half marathon distance run. Spaniels I’m the background.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

the #Dunbar Debt Advice Service team meeting today. We welcomed our new Service Coordinator Pam Shields, who takes the reins from Christine Bailey. The service has now managed over £900k of debt for clients and saved clients over £180k. If you’re in #debt, get in touch. We can help. #EastLothian

Team discussion about service development.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

And here we go again. The Arctic Spine is underway. This is completely bonkers! @spinerace.bsky.social www.thespinerace.com?p=2710

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Arctic Spine — The Spine Race

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