Albert Kirk Jr
@albertkirkjr.bsky.social
Scriever, Gomerel. Scriever an Furthsetter o "The Life Time o Valerie Duke, Phase Yin: Bluid an Rackets" Oot NOO! A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland
A trip on an ancient and rattling train down to Kilmarnock to see a superlative exhibition. Robert Colquhoun and Robert McBryde: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders. On until January at the Dick Institute. Highly recommended.
Quick bit #FitbaSpaeman patter for eh England an Scotland gemms the nicht an the morra: 🏴 4 - 1 🇭🇷 🏴 1 - 0 🇲🇰 Gin Scotland dinnae win syne for shair we ur dealin wi Vogts Era Redux. MON EH FITBA!!!
![A'll Aye Hae Mind
Albert Kirk Jr
A'll aye hae mind o three auld carles,
The best ye iver met,
Noo deid an yirdit twinty year,
As different as ye'll get:
The first o thir, ma grandfaither,
Wis douce an fou o saucht;
He niver heezed his vice or haund
An wirrit aboot nocht;
The saicont, a great-uncle,
Nae wife he iver teuk;
Yon cannie intellectual
Wis mairrit tae his buiks;
The third, anither uncle,
Wis pawkie, thrawn an teuch,
An didnae care whit bodies thocht
Sin life wis short eneuch.
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Glasgow friends! Please join me for my inaugural lecture on 3 December: '"The white-faced, drunken, vicious boy who raved himself to death in the Edinburgh madhouse": The Life, Works and Legacies of Robert Fergusson (1750-74)'. Sign up for in person or online 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-s...
Critical Studies Inaugural Lecture Series 26-27: Professor Rhona Brown
The Life, Works and Legacies of Robert Fergusson (1750-74)
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Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate
Robinson tae Killie an McCann tae Aiberdeen by Nov 21st plz, JUIST FOR EH PATTER
No the greatest performance aff me this weeken, awtho thare wur a wheen unco results. An come on, Shellick: A gied ye five possible affcomes an ye cudnae hit yin o them! Sake!
Albert Kirk Jr@albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 7d agoHere ra auld #FitbaSpaeman patter for ra weeken: Arabs 2 - 1 Well Fermers 1 - 1 Dee Dandies 0 - 0 Hibees Buddies 1 - 2 Teds Jambos 2 - 2 Bairns Bhoys 4 (+/- 2) - 0 Killie MON EH FITBA!!!
I reckon someone could write a highly detailed thesis on the psychology of people who choose to use laughing emojis when they're arguing.
Stickers.! New sticker pack includes Twin Peaks. Online noo.
Here ra auld #FitbaSpaeman patter for ra weeken: Arabs 2 - 1 Well Fermers 1 - 1 Dee Dandies 0 - 0 Hibees Buddies 1 - 2 Teds Jambos 2 - 2 Bairns Bhoys 4 (+/- 2) - 0 Killie MON EH FITBA!!!
Gey naur aboot as WRANG as ye can get athort the hale caird. Juist the Teds result bein richt sauft me fae a muckle beamer. Juist as weel A dinnae pit clink on thir gemms. A'd be a puir puir bodie atweel!
Albert Kirk Jr@albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 2w agoHere eh #FitbaSpaeman patter for eh League an eh Tassie this weeken: League Killie 1 - 2 Fermers Well 1 - 1 Buddies Bairns 1 - 2 Bhoys Tassie Teds 3 - 1 Dandies Jambos 1 - 0 Hibees MON EH FITBA!!! #Scotstober
A boannie nicht for castin kale: a fat mön vaegin owre Sannis, a hale gadderie o laads an lasses… —Christine De Luca, “Hallowe’en Hansel” published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES Listen to Christine reading her poems online here #Shetland #Halloween #poem www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_w...
Hert felt apologies tae awbody that I short chynged when I gaed guisin as a wee boay lang syne. I could hae gien ye a bit fae Tam o Shanter or a Burns sang, but I wis a total chancer an gied ye, “The sky is blue, the grass is green/an noo I want ma Hallaeen!” Sorry. Compensatory sweeties available.
#Scotstober #Neep And we reach the end... This is from my forthcoming book, Maggie Walls Wood (out 1 December - please buy!)
#Scotstober 2026 day 31 Neep - turnip Am auld farant aboot Halloween! A neep, no a pumpkin - sittin on the brace abune the ingle, glowerin, wi its ain reek, the anly licht. Dookin fir aipples in a basin. Ghaisty tales an bein feart tae gae ben the hoose in the daurk!
The final #Scotstober26 Today’s word is a Halloween special, using 3 Scottish dialect words all for the same item: #Neep #Tumshie #Baigie A neepie lantren Gye teuch tae dee, braks yer haun Fairly gies a fleg A swede lantern So tough to do, breaks your hand Really gives folk a scare.
LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸@leftpeggers.bsky.social · last mo.#Scotstober2026 Missing @drmdempster.bsky.social Each day in October has a Scots word for you to make a poem, a story, a picture, a joke, anything! On Halloween we use 1 of the Scots words for turnip/swede (the traditional item to make a spooky lantern with). Use the hashtag & please share!
