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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Sneaking in late in the day with this shot of the massive Memory Stones in Portland. These are some impressive megaliths! The 'ends' of the open circle align to the midsummer rising and setting sun. #StandingstoneSunday #Megalithic #Portland

An arc of very large megaliths of Portland stone.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Googling "how to unstick superglued fingers" is quite difficult.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Basking in some late summer sunshine at Beer beach (and wishing I'd brought my shorts!). 18 ⁰C! Just glorious. #SeasideSun #Dorset

View ofa shingly beach with boys, sun shades and deckchairs.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Weymouth peace labyrinth with The Geomancy Group today. An unusual Classical variant. #labyrinth #Weymouth

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Dear Weymouth council, can you please decide on what parking app to use and stick with it? I've been here two days and have had to attempt to use three different apps, only one of which has actually worked. Grrrr 😡 #Weymouth #Parking #FirstWorldProblems

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Either they're making crisp packets harder to open or I'm older and feebler than I thought.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Checked in with the Edinburgh labyrinth today, I haven't visited it for a few years. Looks in needed of a little TLC, although energetically it's still pretty good. #labyrinth #Edinburgh

A Chartres-replica labyrinth on Edinburgh.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@muttminion25.bsky.social This is the Mk. 3 version, which replaced the length of string that used to activate the paint (always a bit hit and miss due to stretchiness) with a bicycle brake lever and cable. Worked a treat.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Well, that was a pretty intense day - I basically compressed about three days' worth of training into four hours! Still, everyone seemed to enjoy it and I was pleased that my new improved labyrinth-painting widget (patent pending 😁) worked flawlessly. #dowsing #labyrinths #trees

Me giving a PowerPoint about dowsing with trees

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Eating s curry at The Jewel in the Crown in Castle Douglas (there isn't much choice here - it's this or the chippy). Looking forward to teaching a workshop on 'Dowsing with Trees' tomorrow for D&G Woodlands Trust. Should be fun!

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

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So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

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This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trump’s vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cos...

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Finally ditched Norton in favour of an EU alternative, mainly as I was fed up with the constant upsells and scareware popups. Still 6 months to run on my subscription. That's how fed up with it I am.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

During our five days in Budapest I didn't see a single cat (although they do have a very nice historic cats museum). This friendly puss was one of three at the Houses of History in Tihany, where the dowsing conference was held. (Sorry for the blurry close-up). #catsofmastodon

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I met with József Mónus, world champion long-distance archer and passionate Hungarian at the International Dowsing conference in Tihany. He's quite a character! #Dowsing #Archery #Tihany #Hungary

Two men, one wearing a kilt and they other in traditional Mongolian wear

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Behold, mainland Europe's first underground subway, Metro Line #1 in Budapest. Technically, London is the oldest subway system, Glasgow was the third in the world. #Budapest #Subway #Metro

Picture shows a view across to another platform of an underground metro.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

A visit to Kerdroya in Cornwall, the world's largest labyrinth. Constructed entirely from Cornish hedges, it is a wonderful thing indeed. youtu.be/SvCOHjBfG3s #Labyrinths #Kerdroya #Cornwall #Dowsing

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

New archaeological dig of Camphill earthwork suggests Neolithic activity at site. Harry Bell was right again! youtu.be/MlnMysyZfw8 #glasgowssecretgeometry #HarryBell #Archaeology #Glasgow

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Discovering Dowsing podcast - an interesting chat about dowsing and geomancy with Alex Russell-Stonehamand my humble self. :ablobcatattention: youtu.be/7awjgCIkwpE?si=Z6TkyM5pc-P… #Dowsing #Geomancy #GrahameGardner #Magic

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

We appear to have a couple sleeping in a camper van in our street. There goes the neighborhood! 🙄😁

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Disappointing to see that new housing has ruined the view of the summer solstice sunrise alignment from Sighthill stone circle. Well, it was nice while it lasted; and, as Duncan Lunan says, the stone circle will likely still be standing after the buildings have […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A view of the summer solstice sunrise position from Sighthill stones, showing how new buildings have obscured it.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Happy first day of meteorological autumn, celebrated by a new postbox topper in Glasgow's West End #Autumn #WinterisComing #Knitting

A knitted postbox topper with roses and insects in Glasgow

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@telescoper Not in Scotland either. Not sure about Wales? But hardly the 'United Kingdom'

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Bodhipaksa @bodhipaksa.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@sciencealert/environ… Surely a definite contender for next year's Ig Nobel prize?

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Hey theatre techies - do you have a spare heavy fogger lying around? stick it in a gallery, call it 'Clouds #07156' or maybe 'Fog' and earn lots of dosh! (Note: you'll need to employ a stage hand to dry the floor every so often) {Art installation by Fujiko […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Stagehand mopping the floor after a layer of low fog cleared

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again. And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today. It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows. 🔗

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Good morning, fellow pachyderms. Day 5 of our Parisian city break and the sky is clear for the first time since we arrived. Today we visit the opera house, the Dali museum, and Sacre-Cour. I think I'll be wearing a hat. #Paris #SunnySaturday

A view of the Eiffel tower from the balcony of our hotel in Montparnasse

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Oh look another Reflect Orbital interview request in my inbox. SIGH. But I will keep doing as many of these interviews as I possibly can. Because Reflect Orbital is an incredibly stupid, awful, destructive, dangerous idea with no measurable benefits.

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Welcome to London part 2 - Premier Inn at Kings Cross: breakfast a complete omnishambles. Too few staff (we heard that the chef had walked out), huge queue waiting for hot food - ANY hot food - to appear. Vegan sausages promised but suddenly unavailable due to unspecified "global issues". WTAF? […]

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

In London, en route to Paris, when I realise I forgot my wash bag with shaving great, toothbrush, meds etc. 3 visits to pharmacies, phone calls to 111 NHS later, seems that English NHS can't access my Scottish NHS records... Cue 3 hours in A&E to get an emergency prescription from a doctor […]

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

And naturally, the update failed to install and the troubleshooter can't find the problem. I swear, I'm moving the laptop to Linux if this continues. #Windows11 #windows11update24h2

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Dear Microsoft, I have full fibre to the home 500 broadband. Why does it still take Windows Update several hours to download an update? 🤖 🤔 😒 😡

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

2/ 3. Alien civilisations that are vastly more technologically advanced than us are likely to indulge in space tourism. Seeing a total eclipse on Earth would be a must-see. So, during totality of an eclipse, instead of looking towards the sun, turn around and look for the strange, out-of-place […]

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

1/ The forthcoming solar eclipse reminded me of the premise in Iain Banks’ ‘Transition’ novel about eclipses being a good place to spot aliens. The argument goes: 1. The fact that the moon is the right size and distance from Earth to perfectly cover the sun’s disc is a staggering cosmic […]

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Currently banished from the living room as we're having new windows fitted, so having to eat dinner at my desk in the study. Feels very odd. Just hope I don't spill any wine on the keyboard...!

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@JanDocNfP Six top tips to help you get started... 1. If you're in a web browser with the multi-column view (like the old Tweetdeck), go to preferences and select 'slow mode'. 2. Use #Hashtags in your posts and Alt-text your images. 3. You can follow #Hashtags 4. Make Lists of topics and people […]

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