Sharon McTeir 📚 🐈

🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

Can you believe how well Scotland is doing this year?! Unfortunately I only went to the one match we lost. We even did well in the football. It’s a very weird feeling for us…

Scotland-France full-time score. 50-40. Scotland win.

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@elsnicol.bsky.social I’ve turned it off in case I’m jinxing them.

Score out of date a minute later.

Took the dog out for a walk as fully expected Scotland not to do well at the rugby. Omg 40-14!!

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Front cover of A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders by Professor David Wilson.

Currently reading A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders by Professor David Wilson.

Winning isn’t everything.
Convenient philosophy when you’re losing. 😅
#CalvinandHobbes #GameDay

I really liked this book.

Flooding in the fields by the River Tweed.

Flooding in the fields by the River Tweed. One of the Eildon Hills in the background.

The viaduct over the River Tweed.

We have quite a bit of flooding around the fields here. This was on my walk this afternoon.

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Top left, book title page 'Letters and Sounds: an Introduction to English Reading on an Entirely New Plan'; right, photograph of Alexander Melville Bell in full Victorian hirsuteness; bottom left, an extract form his book of elocution exercises, including 'She sells sea shells'

1 March 1819, Edinburgh: birth of Alexander Melville Bell. An elocution & phonetics lecturer at Edinburgh University, his 1855 book 'Letters and Sounds' included as an elocution exercise some tongue-twisting short sentences, amongst them ‘She sells sea-shells’. There is no connection to #MaryAnning.

The Driver’s Seat m, a novella by Muriel Spark.

Next up: The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark. #books #novella

Pic of Leonard Cohen and his quote “I wish the women would hurry up and take over.”

He also writes in a very simple manner which makes some of the difficult issues covered in the story seem even more awful.

The whole book was great. A great story, very funny and moving too.

Just finished this book,Fredrik Backman’s My Friends. I absolutely loved it. Definitely recommend. #books

You can see more images of that day in Kenmure Street, May 2021, here, in a new publication: www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/photography-... #KenmureStreet #Glasgow

It’s one of the books I’ve enjoyed the most in quite a while. It’s beautifully written.

I might have to re-read it. I’m absolutely loving My Friends by Fredrik Backman. It was my choice for our bookgroup so have to try and get it finished before the Saturday evening. It’s a long book, which is always risky for a book group book, but everyone has said they’ve loved it too so far.

From Ukraine to Scotland: Kindness helped us rebuild Leaving the war in Ukraine with my nine-year-old son, we found safety, education and the chance to learn and support others in Scotland

Leaving the war in Ukraine with my nine-year-old son, we found safety, education and the chance to learn and support others in Scotland | Viktoriia Vlashchuk

Thank goodness for that. Let’s hope that’s the final decision.

There was an excellent drama series made of this book back in the 90s. It’s worth looking out for it.

Buckle up 🫡 The International Booker Prize 2026 longlist will be arriving on 24.02.26, at 2pm GMT.

Robert Aramayo just won Best Actor BAFTA for I Swear about a boy from Galashiels (2 miles from here) living with Tourette syndrome. He became a spokesperson and educator for the disorder. If you haven’t seen the film it’s brilliant. He’s so respected in the community here. Need to phone my mum!

My longhaired tabby cat stretched out on blanket covering my legs.

I’ve been cat-napped and now have no feelings in my legs. Pins and needles incoming…

Well, that was a stressful ice hockey match and it did not go the way I hoped. 😞

US Ice hockey player Quinn Hughes getting a hug from a team mate.

The Quinn Hughes memes are funny but it looked like he really needed this hug.

Covid. Introverts quite enjoyed self-isolating.