@jampedlar
Tottenham based maker of jams, jellies, marmalades & chutneys https://jampedlar.co.uk Singer in a choir https://wingitsingers.org.uk Volunteer at @allgoodbookshop.bsky.social & Bruce Castle Museum Born in Brum of Scots parents.
Back of a Scottish RBS fiver, with two swimming mackerel
Back of an RBS tenner, with two frolicking otters
Back of an RBS 20 note, with two lively red squirrels
In Scotland we've had wildlife on some of our money since 2016 and the country doesn't seem to have fallen
NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter…
IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
The Earthquake House on the edge of Comrie in Perthshire. The image shows a view up a slight hill to a grassy summit with a large tree growing on it. Just to the right of it is a small square building with a slate roof. There are more trees on either side. The scene is in sunlight.
The rather wonderful little Earthquake House on the edge of Comrie in Perthshire. It was erected in 1874 to collect data about the many tremors felt in what is known as the earthquake capital of the UK. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Comrie #Perthshire
Many things are awful in the world right now, but there are many other things at the other end of the scale to help us deal, and this remains one of them.
It began with red paint at the UK Treasury, and ended in one of the most successful international climate initiatives.
Yay! Possums!
Is it war?
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All the problems we are facing in the world are created by patriarchy:
War.
Wealth inequality.
Growing authoritarianism.
Environmental destruction.
Which means that only feminism can create a better world.
The liberation of women is the liberation of everyone.
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
Chestnut Shetland pony in field with faded grass. Blue sky behind and pony main sticking up
Shetland ponies have the BEST hair ❤️ #Shetland
"Many years ago, on this very spot, there was a beautiful city of fine houses and inviting spaces, and no one who lived here was ever in a hurry. The streets were full of wonderful things to see and the people would often stop to look at them." "Didn't they have any place to go?" asked Milo. "To be sure," continued Alec; "but, as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. Then one day someone discovered that if you walked as fast as possible and looked at nothing but your shoes you would arrive at your destination much more quickly. Soon everyone was doing it. They all rushed down the avenues and hurried along the boulevards seeing nothing of the wonders and beauties of their city as they went." Milo remembered the many times he'd done the very same thing; and, as hard as he tried, there were even things on his own street that he couldn't remember.
"No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all." "What did they do?" the Humbug inquired, suddenly taking an interest in things. "Nothing at all," continued Alec. "They went right on living here just as they'd always done, in the houses they could no longer see and on the streets which had vanished, because nobody had noticed a thing. And that's the way they have lived to this very day." "Hasn't anyone told them?" asked Milo. "It doesn't do any good," Alec replied, "for they can never see what they're in too much of a hurry to look for."
The story of what happened to the city of Reason is too long to fit in a single post, but too good not to post. Feels like an apt metaphor.
Please read:
Spring has sprung & buds are beginning to burst into #blossom. At least they are here in Cornwall
A good time to remind myself of the differences between Blackthorn & Cherry Plum...explained beautifully in this great blog post by @badbotanist.bsky.social 🌿
badbotanist.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/b...
"I said it's quite bold of Nigel Farage to go to the US to side with Donald Trump against his own country. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a treacherous self-serving sack of shit"
Atmospheric black and white photo of bare trees along a broken down dry stone dyke across a field. Light shine through misty drizzle.
A winter landscape in the Machars of Galloway.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland
The magnificent view east towards Kintail from the Bealach Ratagain. The image shows a viewpoint indicator in the foreground and then the largely brown bracken-covered ground drops away steeply towards a loch. Beyond the loch are mountains rising in the haze. The scene is in sunlight.
The magnificent view east towards Kintail from the Bealach Ratagain, the high point on the road from Shiel Bridge to Glenelg in Lochalsh. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Kintail #BealachRatagain #Glenelg #Lochalsh
Words, what do they mean
Anniesland Court Table Lamp
Just a fun project trying to turn something brutal into beautiful
#brutalglasgow #brutalism #Glasgow
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Imagine if worms in hats did drive apple-cars about though.
A great G.
Not only does this bookshop
+ sell great books
+ run as a co-operative
+ offer tea, coffee & comfy sofas
+ lay on fantastic events
+ have a regularly changing art gallery...
... it also sells excellent jam, chutney and marmalade (made by me!)
Support your local bookshop!
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an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
Melania Trump, wife of Donald Trump Leads UNSC
The US showed its contempt with the world, international law, and UN by having Melania Trump, with no actual experience, lead the UN Security Council as the war of aggression against Iran continues to spiral out of control.
Rainbow over the sea.
“Only a judge can sentence you,” said Milo, who remembered reading that in one of his schoolbooks.
“Good point,” replied the policeman, taking off his cap and putting on a long black robe.
Bit of a beakful
