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Leid Freen

@leidfreen.bsky.social

Mostly I post photographs and Scots-language text (with English translations). Sorry, no DMs.

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Lamin Sambou @pedro70-03.bsky.social · last wk.

A beautiful day, a beautiful beach, and a grateful heart. ☀️🌊 #The Gambia #Nature #Beach #photography #photographer

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · yesterday

Nach buidhe dhut. Ye'r a sonsie bodie. Lucky you. #Gaelic #SineadSwann #music #Scotland #Scottish #hip-hop #ScotsLeid #Scots #ScotsLanuage www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsk...

Nach Buidhe Dhut - Limonead

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Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

A kipple auld biggins in Pairtick. A couple of old buildings in Partick. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #buildings #architecture #street #sky #clouds #derelict #fence #Partick #Glasgow #Scotland

A photograph showing a three-storey white building on the other side of a road junction from the camera. The building’s windows are small and dark. Next to it is a modern red-brick building. Trees are growing close to the buildings. A car is at the junction and the sky is blue and cloudless.

A photograph showing a derelict, grey-brown, two-story building. Its windows are boarded up with metal screens and there is temporary fencing in front of. Attached to the fence panels are what appear to be LGBTQ+ pride colours. The sky is blue but rather cloudy.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 3d ago

Kirk an gurdwara. Church and gurdwara. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #buildings #church #gurdwara #fence #religion #Glasgow #Scotland

A monochrome photograph in which a church steeple and a gurdwara are seen in the distance through a metal fence in the foreground. The church is Tron Kelvingrove and the temple is Central Gurdwara Singh Sabha.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Alang-by the mirkness an the licht. Along past the darkness and the light. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #bridge #buildings #lighting #walkway #river #RiverClyde #Glasgow #Scotland

A monochrome photograph showing a view along a riverside walkway underneath a concrete bridge and beyond. In the middle distance, next to railings, is a lighting rig similar in appearance to a stylised tree. To its right, the figure of a person can be discerned.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 5d ago

The brattachs is oot in Glesca. The flags are out in Glasgow. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #flags #nations #CommonwealthGames #sport #sky #clouds #building #OVOHydro #Glasgow #Scotland

A colour photograph. The flags of various nations are flying from poles outside the OVO Hydro in Glasgow to mark the city’s hosting of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. The sky is rather cloudy.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · last wk.

Fae lug tae laggan. From side to side. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #art #sculpture #dog #Scottie #RiverClyde #buildings #Armadillo #fence #Glasgow #Scotland

A monochrome photograph showing a close-up of the face and ears of a Scottie-dog sculpture. In the background is the River Clyde, the Crowne Plaza hotel and part of the Armadillo.

A monochrome photograph showing a view across the River Clyde towards the Crowne Plaza hotel and the Armadillo. Much of the view is obscured by a fence on the photographer’s side of the river.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · last wk.

The better o a bit dander. The better for a little stroll. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #bridge #graffiti #building #walkway #Glasgow #Scotland

A monochrome photograph showing a view past the pillar of a large modern bridge towards a modern high-rise building in the distance. The building is partly hidden by the pillar, which has a little graffiti and in front of which is a walkway.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Auld Alliance. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #streetphotography #van #Citroën #sky #buildings #tenements #Glasgow #Scotland #France #AuldAlliance #wroughtiron

A photograph showing ornamental wrought iron around and above the entrance to a disused underground public toilet. On the opposite side of the street a green Citroën H van is parked. Beyond the van are Victorian tenements. The sky is blue and cloudless.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

The harns. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #art #brain

Mitchell Squid@mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 2w ago

The brain Mitchell P #art

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Roon aboot, roon aboot, Ran a wee moosie. Up a bit, up a bit – In the wee hoosie! Scots version of ‘Round and Round the Garden’ that I remember my mother reciting. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #mouse #nurseryrhyme #nature

Jaffa@jaffafox.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tiny mouse is tiny

Photograph of harvest mouse at British Wildlife Centre

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kenspeckle on Calton Hull. Conspicuous on Calton Hill. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #CaltonHill #Edinburgh #Scotland

A monochrome photograph showing a view down a street towards Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Visible on the Hill are the obelisk known as the Political Martyrs’ Monument and the castellated and turreted Governor’s House.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadians are in town for the Commonwealth Games. Music, dancing and flags outside the Riverside Museum, Glasgow. #photography #colour #man #dancers #dancing #music #band #flags #Canada #CommonwealthGames #sport #Glasgow #Scotland

A colour photograph in which girls, holding maple-leaf flags, stand in front of Glasgow’s Riverside Museum. In the background is a uniformed band.

A colour photograph showing a man wearing a baseball cap and a jacket with a maple-leaf symbol on its arm. He is watching girls dancing with flags.

William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Teachers and volunteers – people just like my 83-year-old mum, or the women running drop-ins and language classes in church halls around the country – are not safe from repeated harassment by men asking if “asylum seekers” are being taught in these classes.' Alison Phipps archive.is/xwtBS

A language class with a mother and young child taking part.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Heich, but no the heichmaist. High, but not the highest. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #crag #rocks #sky #men #high

A monochrome photograph showing two young men standing facing each other on top of a crag. They look very small compared to the crag and the clear sky.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Twa Wattie Scotts. Two Walter Scotts. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #WalterScott #statue #monument #ScottMonument #Edinburgh #Scotland

A monochrome photograph showing a statue of Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, in Parliament Square, Edinburgh. The square is rather busy with people, and part of St Giles’ Cathedral can be seen in the background.

A monochrome photograph of the Victorian Gothic Scott Monument, commemorating Sir Walter Scott, which stands in Princes Street, Edinburgh. In the foreground, a man, looking at his phone, walks past an advertisement for ‘Footballers’ Wives: The Musical’.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Haudin a wee an haein a leuk. Stopping for a little while and having a look. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #people #HolyroodPalace #sky #trees #HolyroodPark #CaltonHill #Edinburgh #Scotland

A monochrome photograph showing two couples, some distance apart, walking up a gently sloping path. The couple further up the path, and nearer the camera, have stopped to look down on the lawn between the hillside and the Palace of Holyrood House. In the background is Calton Hill beneath a cloudless sky.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Tradition'!

Leid Freen@leidfreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tradeetion says at Enoch/Thenew – mither o Glesca’s pawtron saunt, Mungo/Kentigern – wis yirdit i this pairt. Traditional says that Enoch/Thenew – mother of Glasgow’s patron saint, Mungo/Kentigern – was buried in this area. #Thenew #Enoch #Kentigern #Mungo #history #Glasgow 🧵 2/3

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ane o the ingangs tae St Enoch subwey station, Glesca. One of the entrances to St Enoch subway station, Glasgow. 🧵1/3 #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #subway #StEnoch #entrance #people #buildings #Glasgow #Scotland

A blue-tinted, vignetted, grainy monochrome photograph of the metal-and-glass, arch-shaped entrance to St Enoch subway station in St Enoch Square, Glasgow. There are various buildings surrounding it, and there are people standing and walking nearby.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Braw braes. Handsome hills. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #colour #man #path #hills #sky #grass #walking

A photograph in which a young man, in the foreground, walks along a path that cuts through grass. In the background are hills. The sky above the hills is blue and cloudless.

Leid Freen @leidfreen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Weans yisst tae git the tawse for yaisin Scots or Gaelic. Noo Reform UK is wantin tae gie fowk the jile. Children used to get the strap for using Scots or Gaelic. Now Reform UK wants to jail people. www.thenational.scot/news/2627733... #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Gaelic #ReformUK #fascism