iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When you spend the day in the library, mired in the 1930s, but there is coffee and the papers, and a great wee exhibition! ❤️ #TheMitchell

010

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very chuffed to have my second BBC Weather's "Editor's Pick"!

062

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When the community orchard is overflowing and you are in the mood for stewing and freezing! #StirlingLateSummer

030

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Dundee for Scottish Women's Institutes "The Gathering" with a pop up display of textiles from our Archives -- all relating to the Needlework Development Scheme run by J.P. Coates (1934 - 1961). With thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting this research and our volunteers.

021

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Season of fruitfulness... a tad early though? 💕 🍎 #Stirling

010

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When summer evenings shift from 10pm to 10.40 💕

000

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Nothing like a sunny day and a #Fife beach

040

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

For those currently wondering about the evolution of coning, this super article, by Joel Conn, from the current Review of Scottish Culture! journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc/article...

083

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

From pavement to deerstalker! Nice to see Sherlock looking so sporting: #ConeArt #Edinburgh

022

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When a new RHS box-fresh garden, by Leith designer Luke Coleman, is located in a public park lunchtime-walkable away. And it's this sunny day: #DrakkarsDrift #VictoriaPark #Edinburgh

072

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I always enjoy lunchtime walks at work: RLS's grandparents' house in one direction; the powerful and poignant memorial to those lost at Quintshill in another; riverside landscapes too. Today it was milling history, old bleachfields and some unuqie gardenalia! #Pilrig rocks!

000

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Calming views from a beautiful walk yesterday in Alva Glen

2414

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

That's a wrap! #Stirling #WalkingOfTheMarches 2026: you were brilliant. Here's to 2027!

020

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Timeless! This would look great with these playful and current Louboutin Miss Z 100s!

020

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's Stirling's Walking the Marches Day! Very soon I'll be putting on my blue bonnet and best foot forwards. We assemble from 10.45 at the Rotunfa, by the Golden Lion. Join us if you can!

032

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Stirling always walked: first image is from 1919, second is 1955. It is a unique aspect of our tradition

000

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Some more images from today's Perambulation in #Stirling when we Birlawmen, and the Marshalls, are sworn in at the Castle Great Hall. Can't wait for next week 30/5/26 and the Walking of the Marches! www.stirlingwalkingthemarches.org

020

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Walking into the Castle led by a fabulous young piper: today's Perambulation and swearing in of us Birlawmen, and the Marshalls, was a great success. Can't wait for Saturday 30th and the Walking of the Marches! www.stirlingwalkingthemarches.org

182

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

One of the highlights of today's Perambulation was talking to Irving of Bonshaw - the man licensed to supply (moulted) golden eagle feathers - to Clan chiefs and the Royal Company of Archers. Three for a Chief, two for a Chieftan. His own are forty years old and were his father's

071

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Tomorrow Sat 23rd May id the first part of Stirling's Walking of the Marches: the Perambulation. Meet Castle Esplanade 10.45, follow us to the Great Hall where Birlawmen and Marshalls are sworn in. All are welcome. 30th May at the Rotunda, 10.45: the full Walking of the Marches!

001

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just did a piece on Scottish Women's Institutes Heritage Lottery funded project. It'll go out on the news bulletin on freeview Channel 7 at 5.45 tonight: across Scotland, just like this fine '30s map of Rural Institutes!

021

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

another beautiful day begins: good morning Stirling

060

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The highlight of my week was the chance to get up close with Scottish Women's Institutes legacy item previously in storage: the very large '30s "Descriptive Panel of the W.R.I. from Cradle to Majority. Designed by John R. Chart and embroidered by Catherine Blair". More will follow!

050

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Yours are gorgeous! I completely understand #TulipFever, present and past -- although it is possible I've taken it too far!

110

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Nae day sae dark; nae wud sae bare; Nae grund sae stour wi' stane; But licht comes through; a sang is there; A glint o grass is green. ('Nae Day Sae Dark', 1941) Happy Birthday to William Soutar, born otd 1898, d.1943, whose words still ring strong and true. www.williamsoutar.com

082

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

For once, a good news story: (Thanks I)!

020

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"Cities don't just host writers, they shape them": wonderful to be the launch of the new Stirling Literary History map @StirlingLibs a great partnership project, with huge congratulations to Jonathan Kaney

092

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It steppit like a stallion, Wha’s heid hauds up a horn, And weel the men o’ Scotland kent It was the unicorn. It steppit like a stallion, Snaw-white and siller-bricht, And on its back there was a bairn Wha low’d in his ain licht. (William Soutar 'Birthday') #NationalUnicornDay

091

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

he haunts global fiction too, specifically and by allusion! I recently read Turgenev's "A House of Gentlefolk", on my shelves in a second hand copy since the '90s for the back cover decription "brought up by a strict and "Anglomaniac" father, who forces him to wear a kilt, Fedor Ivanitch Lavretsky":

071

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Jo Miller singing last night at the Stirling Walking the Marches fundraiser at the Golden Lion. Alyn Smith spoke powerfully too, about Stirling as European city; Captain, Robin Mair, gave the vote of thanks. 30th May stirlingwalkingthemarches.org

020

Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Super day at Community Archives' & Heritage Group of @ScotsArchives Conference -- inspiring, challenging and brain-filling! Thanks to Audrey, Marissa, BSL interpreters and student volunteers. Off now to engage in Intangible Culture as a Stirling Birlawman. What a great day!

030