Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵

I know I shouldn't, but part of me can't help but admire his sheer chutzpah in pulling this off so successfully, for a while at least.
I look forward to the Hallmark movie of it

There used to be a great wee team on Twitter who could ID the specific unit based on uniform, badges, patches etc. and sometimes even pin down a name from wound stripes. I've never reconnected with them here

How's your morning? I just had yer actual Captain Hastings retweet my Captain Hastings tweet. Job done for the day!

Here was my such moment. Still brings me happiness:

Keep one aside for me too! 📖👀 Although I'll probably have to join the stream of the talk

James Hutton, Geologist: Hybrid Event Ray Perman will give a talk about James Hutton, who in 1785 presented his "Theory of the Earth" and laid the foundation of modern geology.

I know, I'm married to the author so not totally impartial. But Ray Perman's a very good storyteller with a journalistic eye for human detail. His talk @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social 18 March 7-8.30pm
Hutton, by the way, was quite a human. #JamesHutton #geology
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-hutt...

The thread about the coming of the Union Canal, what became of its “Ports” and why its bridges moved around Prior to the coming of the Union Canal into neighbourhood of Fountainbridge in the 1820s, it was little changed from medieval times, a quiet suburb on the outskirts of the city in a pastoral settin…

Was actually the 1920's when the bridge was moved. This is history from the excellent @threadinburgh.scot with images and maps of the Fountainbridge area.

threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/18/t...

Tesco sandwich packet on a shelf. "Beechwood ham, egg and chips with seasoned fries" contents look like ham, grated cheese and suspicious sauces

Go home Tesco, you're drunk

Yeah - just google ‘English medieval castle’ for an image - what could possibly go wrong?

I will of course save the lot for future use 😅

Thanks Gavin, good to meet you. Think I've made a rod for my own back here, haven't I?! 🙈

And bloody watermarked them too, the fiend!

Aw man! Amazing pictures, but How much per slide 😟

Edinbrick LEGO show set to return to Edinburgh this May Calling all LEGO fans! Edinbrick, Scotland’s biggest LEGO show, is set to return to Edinburgh this May.

In case you haven't heard Edinbrick is back in May 2026 great coverage of the show in the Edinburgh Evening News! Support Local Press!

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/edi...

they should make the microsoft lads try to find a document they’ve saved to sharepoint next time they all get on stage to announce something new

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Congratulations! I'd be ready for chiptime too if I had run that far and that long!

Tomorrow! Last chance to book:
Architecture and Urbanism in late Georgian Edinburgh with speaker John Lowrey

🗓️ Monday 9 March 2026
📍 Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL and online via Zoom
🎟️ £6 online/in-person | £2 students

🔗 Book now: buff.ly/M3zifhR

1819 map shows it in elevation so I think it must be it.

(Mas)sacre bleu! 🏉

Would help if I added the picture

I wonder if this is the tower shown on the 1804 map as an Observatory. This seems to refer to the house of St. Bernard's, later Henry Raeburn's gaff

Wasn't Dodo with a Yoyo a lesser known Smiths b-side?

Banana bread, naturally

A strangely shaped cake

Just found this historic photo from CodeBase's first birthday party where someone made Argyle House out of cake lol

Cc @daveybot.bsky.social

My Minister Sense was tingling

Rain overnight in central Edinburgh & snow on the Pentlands. Polwarth Parish Church & the spire of St Martin’s Episcopal in the middle distance.

Getting strong former manse vibes from that!

I'm doing a talk on Monday about the Victorian efforts to clean up the river, so this is all very pertinent just how clean and full of life the river now is

It feels very corporate! 💯 Would have it though