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Leid Freen
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Mostly I post photographs accompanied by captions in the Scots language (with English translations).

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Alt Clut wis aw by lang, lang syne, but the roke bides, stey an sture.

Alt Clut was over with long, long ago, but the rock remains, steep and stern.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #rock #sky #clouds #swans #RiverLeven #AltClut #Dumbarton #Scotland
A monochrome photograph showing a view down the River Leven towards Dumbarton Rock. There are some swans in the river and part of the walkway can be seen. Dumbarton Rock was the capital of the Celtic kingdom of Alt Clut.
September 18, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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Girse, watter, braes, cluds.

Grass, water, hills, clouds.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #grass #river #water #hills #sky #clouds #scenery
A colour photograph showing a view over a grassy hilltop and then across a river towards hills on the opposite bank. The sky is bright but cloudy.
September 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Aiblins Merlin an Arthur stuid thegither on this heuchheid.

Perhaps Merlin and Arthur stood together at the top of this precipice.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #rock #precipice #sky #clouds #tree #Merlin #Arthur #Dumbarton #Scotland
A monochrome photograph showing a precipice with a windowless stone structure on top. The sky is cloudy. In the top-left foreground are the branches of a tree.
September 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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thismaxpro.bsky.social
Church in the night

#Photography #blackandwhite #dark #bnw
January 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Weerin the roke.

Defending the rock.

These and other cannons were once used to protect Dumbarton Castle, #Scotland.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #monochrome #cannon #castle #Dumbarton #people #walls #grass
A monochrome photograph showing a view along the barrel of a cannon towards the River Clyde. On the opposite bank are hills above which is a cloudy sky. On either side of the cannon’s muzzle is a low wall. A colour photograph showing a cannon positioned at a wall as viewed from above. Part of the roof of a building can be seen below the wall, while beyond them a man and a woman are seated at a picnic table in a grassy area.
September 12, 2026 at 10:07 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Juist snuvin alang.

Just gliding along.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #swan #water #bird #nature #wildlife
A colour photograph processed to make it look rather like a painting. It shows an adult swan swimming.
September 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Three: Melanie, trying to wake up in the morning.
I still have that little enamel saucepan at far right.
September 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Caller an tae sell.

Fresh and for sale.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #documentaryphotography #colour #Vietnam #Asia #HoiAn #vendor #food
strangphotography.bsky.social William Strang @strangphotography.bsky.social · 15d
A smile, a moment, a glimpse of everyday Vietnam
Photographing a street vendor in Hoi An reminded me why I love travel and documentary photography
📍Hoi An, Vietnam
Available as Digital Download – Editorial License & Print
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#photography #affiliate
September 7, 2026 at 11:25 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
www.dumbartoncastle.co.uk/the-french-prison

Bi the abuin steid’s wey o’t, this biggin micht hae been yaised tae prison General Édouard François Simon durin the Napoleonic Weers.

(English translation below.)

#ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #DumbartonCastle #Scotland #NapoleonicWars
A colour photograph showing a longish, two-story, eighteenth-century stone building: the French Prison, or Old Barracks, on Dumbarton Rock.
September 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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There’s thaim at says Merlin wis fae Pairtick an A’m keepin tae ma threap in howpin they’r richt.

(English translation in 2/2.)

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #mural #Partick #Glasgow #Scotland #Merlin #art #urban #history #medieval #buildings #tenement
A colour photograph showing a view past a bus shelter towards a tenement gable end on which there is a mural depicting the head and shoulders of Merlin. He is wearing a purple hooded garment and holding a staff. Below his beard is the word ‘Partick’ in medieval-inspired lettering. The work is a collaboration between artists Voyder and Mark Worst.
September 6, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Mitchell P
#art
September 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Mindin on an aulder Clyde.

Remembering an older Clyde.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #stone #river #Clyde #Govan #Glasgow #Scotland #shipyard #grass
A colour photograph showing a horizontal block of polished grey stone. On the end facing the camera are inscribed the words ‘Harland Way’. The stone is surrounded by grass which borders a riverside walkway. Docked on the opposite bank of the river is a sailing ship, while beyond it are various buildings. The Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan was one of the biggest on the River Clyde. The same firm built the Titanic in Belfast.
September 5, 2026 at 8:48 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Staunin steive.

Standing firm.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #building #brick #door #Sky #clouds
A monochrome photograph. We are looking up at a squarish modern building. The building is small and has a windowless brick facade. It does have a door, however, which has railings just outside it, plus a pair of handrails leading up to it. The right-hand facade of the building is in deep shadow. The sky is bright but rather cloudy.
September 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Public #art in #Govan. A nearby plaque says:

This is the probable site of the giant ‘Doomster Hill’ earthwork – parliament hill of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. It stood on this land for more than 1000 years before being levelled in 1850 for the shipyards.

#photography #sculpture #Glasgow #Scotland
A photograph of a brown, rounded, metal object with a round hole through it. Below it, cobblestones can be seen. A photograph of a brown, metal art installation next to a riverside walkway. It comprises a number of roughly oval shapes, piled one on top of the other, each pointing in a different direction (more or less). The sculpture is crowned by a cog-like object. A photograph showing a grey, wooden, roughly egg-shaped object surrounded by grass. The object has been created to look as if it has cracked open. A photograph showing an object quite similar to the one in the previous photograph. A bridge and a tree are visible in the background.
August 31, 2026 at 10:06 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Heedin aboot the Auld North.

Taking notice of the Old North.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #music #MWSOG #Welsh #Gododdin #Brittonic #Celticmusic #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #Wales #Scotland #OldNorth

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August 31, 2026 at 9:33 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
At the hair-kaimer’s on a Seturday efternuin.

At the hairdresser’s on a Saturday afternoon.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #pigeons #birds #nature
A photograph showing a pigeon using its beak to (apparently) groom another pigeon. They are on a beige-salmon surface.
August 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Wuid on a railins.

Wood on railings.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #wood #woods #woodland #log #plants #trees #nature #railings
A photograph in which the end of a rather narrow log sits on top of green railings, its grainy cross section facing the camera at an angle. In the background are blurry woods.
August 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
The wuid wutch-bodie.

#ScotsLeid #Scots #ScotsLanguage #joncarling #drawing #art #witch
August 28, 2026 at 11:34 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Pintin tae naitur.

Pointing to nature.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #stone #carvings #grass #plants #weeds #nature #pointing
A photograph showing part of a grey rectangular carved stone. The stone appears to be pointing into an area of mainly brown grass and soil which also contains a little in the way of green grass and weeds.
August 28, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Balderie Fur Aye

Orchid Forever.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSc...

#ScotsLeid #Scots #ScotsLanguage #AmyAytchi #music #Glasgow #Scotland #Scottish #indiefolk #dreampop
Orchid Forever
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August 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Amy Aytchi drops debut full-length record 'Cyclosis' | @amyaytchi.bsky.social

#amyaytchi #cyclosis #new #music #newmusic #newmusicnow #debut #album #record #lp #dreampop #altpop #alternativepop #indiefolk #folk #artist #singersongwriter #glasgow #scotland #uk #ukmusic #plastic #plasticmag
Amy Aytchi releases debut album
Glasgow’s Amy Aytchi has spent the first chapters of her musical story turning profoundly personal experiences into something dreamlike, strange and immersive. Her ethereal indie sound takes cues from...
plasticmag.co.uk
August 23, 2026 at 7:11 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
The pattren hes laundit.

The pattern has landed.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #knitting #rock #grass #plants #nature #pentagon
A photograph showing a piece of roughly pentagonal knitted material sitting on a small rock surrounded by grass and small plants. The material has a grey, a red and two white sections. The photograph has been processed so that only the material and a small part of the soil/grass is in colour.
August 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
A gliff o a craitur.

A glimpse of a creature.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #concrete #tree #creature #insect #nature
A photograph in which an area of grey concrete occupies most of the bottom half of the image area. We are looking over the edge of this concrete object. The middle third of the edge of the object is set back and the lower part of a tree trunk extends from this area to the top of the picture. The area to the left and right of the tree is a greenish yellow. Barely discernable is a small yellowish creature on the edge of the concrete block, towards the right.
August 23, 2026 at 9:09 AM
leidfreen.bsky.social
Howpin ye’ll no git yer heid in yer hauns fur bein ahint.

Hoping you won’t be severely punished for being late.

#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #art #surrealism #time #clock
August 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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@billykayscot.bsky.social

My latest blog piece, Graham Grant's glaikit attack on the status of Scots as a language proves Billy Kay's point that unionist "patriotic" Scots are in fact not patriotic Scots at all.

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Graham Grant’s glaikit attack on the Scots language
You have probably never heard of Graham Grant, which is a great blessing. Grant is the home affairs editor of the Scottish Daily Mail, a far right rag which devotes itself to stories about celebs a…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
August 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM