Christo
@mccustard.bsky.social
Retired welfare rights worker & bookseller. Plant-based. Now gardening in South West Scotland & looking for hares on sunny evenings.
On 16 September 1962 I excitedly wrote in my diary "Tomorrow is Denise's party." On the 17th I wrote "Today is Denise's party," on the 18th "Yesterday was Denise's party" & on the 19th "The day before yesterday was Denise's party." Happy 70th birthday today, Denise, wherever you may be.
I know it's a cliché and it's #caturday but I met this wee smasher on the way to the shop, & again on the way back, and she made me happy. So here's her photo.
St Columba's Well, which is good to know. The well is in the woods by the village of Kirkcolm, which, of course, means Church of St Columba, just as Kirkcudbright is Church of St Cuthbert and Kirkcowan Church of St Couan. As far as I know there is no St By, St Lees or St Bymoorside.
Gardening. It's great for mental health. In fact, take your best orgasm, multiply it by 1000 and.....well, you know the rest.
Community allotment in the outrageously pretty village of Auchencairn. I wouldn't mind, would you?
On the north side of the Solway Firth you can see many a statue of Robert the Bruce. On the south side King Edward Longshanks stares back across the water. It wasn't just the Scots that Edward disliked, mind. On 18 July 1290 he issued an order expelling all of England's 16,000 Jews.
That's better! Those self-seeded poppies in my garden. Where did they come from?
Just discovered I'm no longer able to hear dippers calling to each other. Somebody send chocolate to cheer me up, please.
Announced today. A £75 million UK campaign to persuade the public to use less H20. Did anybody mention AI data centres and the amount they use for cooling? Let's not stand for it, comrades.... greens.scot/datacentres
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -
greens.scot
My front steps looked lovely on Saturday morning. Not so by the evening after a gale blew the flowers all over the garden and snapped the cosmos in half. Anyway, hello again darlings. Nice to be back.
Achieved Nirvana today. Eating rhubarb pudding & drinking coffee in the sunshine, in a beautiful garden in my favourite town with my beloved by my side and this fluffy cat rubbing my leg. Wonderful. Came home to find neo-Nazis had shoved one of their grubby shitty leaflets through my letter box!
You there! Stop fighting and start enjoying some spring wild flowers, like these...
Sea campion, or sea coo-cracker, in a cold wind at Port Logan.
It's been a grand day for contemplating Torhouse Stone Circle.
Art in Nature! Seen this morning, a swan created by bird poo.
A special treat for people who like clouds, water & daffodils.
St Andrews has so many historic buildings it would be asking too much to post pictures of even 10% of them. Just down the road, here's the gorgeous village of Crail.
And for non-Americans, non-allies of America and all the women, children and animals who are in jeopardy through no fault of their own.
TimBert@timbert.bsky.social · 7mo agoA photo for #BlueSkyMonday. Also, here’s hoping for safety and peace as soon as possible for every American and American ally, especially for those in harm’s way.
The 16th century round tower at Portpatrick stands next to St Andrew's Kirk, which hasn't been in use since 1842. It's a home for jackdaws nowadays, and might have been so for the last 184 years for all I know.
