Matthew Scott
@mscottcumbria.bsky.social
Retired. Living a blissful 2nd life of happiness in Cumbria with my wife Fiona. Interests: photography, history, books, film, space, music.
This is the news I've been waiting for: Blackwell's will be stocking my new short story collection, which means readers outside the UK can pre-order it for September 15th with FREE INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY... Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too! blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
My @bsky.app feed has lots of content from Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social in it. Not a complaint! Making life more bearable in an increasingly bewildering world. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d agoActually, let's call it two free postcards. They will be randomly selected from the paintings featured in this thread... bsky.app/profile/dj-a...
'Stiles: an instructional guide to getting your leg over' was fortunately averted before someone signed this off for publication
Abbi Flint@draflint.bsky.social · 2d agoClassic late 1980's stile ergonomics from 'Footpaths: a practical handbook'
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Dolly Parton mural by Kim Radford. (Dolly Parton mural honoring her contributions to Childhood Literacy. Painted on the wall at Hume-Fogg Magnet High School. Best viewed from 715 Commerce St, Nashville.) RIP Dolly. 💔
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Dolly Rebecca Parton RIP, ❤️ US singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian #WomensArt
@bookingcom.bsky.social I have an issue with a big change in flight times for a flight booked through you. Your 'service' centre says I have to contact the airline direct - despite my payment being to you. How to I escalate a complaint about you to your CEO in the UK? 😡
When a (proper) coroner’s inquest is preferable to a public inquiry A short post in respect of the death of Jason Arday emptycity.substack.com/p/when-a-pro... (Replies restricted on this particular one, I am afraid.)
Hi everyone. My sales have been woeful this month. 😔 Can I ask a favour please, can you visit my shop & browse. 🙏 No need to buy anything.. I'm putting this request on all my socials to see where the visits mostly come from. ❤️ Here's my shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦
Early start today. Airport run for family. Breakfast by Moon light.
Ah crap. Such sad news about Glen Hansard. Farewell Sir, and thank you. “Falling Slowly” is exactly what Fiona & I did - and ‘Once’ is part of our story; our romance; our love. We won’t ever forget you. 💔♥️💔♥️
Sure, some men are jerks. Like the ‘influencer’ who carried a bath to the top of Snowdon for a selfie and dumped it there. But other men are heroes, like the teenage rugby team who carried it down. Well done lads. We see you. Show your sons. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...
Stunned Welsh rugby team remove bathtub from Pen y Fan summit after stunt
The players helped National Trust workers remove the tub, which had been left at the summit following a supposed world record attempt
walesonline.co.uk
Fiona’s office view tonight. Side Pike from The New Dungeon Ghyll. 💚
It’s Farm Safety Week. From preventing combine fires to working at height, the Farm Safety Foundation have produced ‘The Little Book of Farm Safety’ with loads of practical information to help keep you and others safe on farm. Take a look at www.yellowwellies.org/resources/ page.
Hey @bethrigby.bsky.social you keep saying that Prime Ministers normally take office after General Elections. I’ve been a voter since 1980. I know what you say is utterly untrue. 👇🏼 Since this chart we’ve also had Truss & Sunak as ‘non GE’ Prime Ministers. Do better. fullfact.org/news/unelect...
Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
Solitary fisherman. Devoke Water in Cumbria. 15 June 2026 (I resisted the temptation to shout ‘stop winding!’ @bobmort.bsky.social 😉🙂) #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #DevokeWater
Midsummer was a very busy time for Old Fox. He rose even earlier than usual, long before first light, gathering baskets of flowers & leaves for the cottage wreaths – long fennel & dog daisies, green birch, Maiden’s lily & St John's Wort, wild roses & sweet plumes of meadowsweet.
@ticketmaster.com You really should review your app for purchases. I bought 2 tickets for Take That, then another two in the same row for family we realised could come. 1 empty seat next to those 4. Your app & website refused to sell it to me for another family member. So it sat empty all night 🙄
50 years after posing as ‘Peter and Jane’ for Ladybird artist Martin Aitchison, these two recreated the scene for me. Her smile!
Solstice Eve photos from home. Sunset afterglow above the Lake District fells, Venus shining in the 2nd one. The setting Moon. A starlight sky after Midnight, with hints of the Milky Way through wispy high cloud still lit by the Sun. #nightsky #solsticeeve #cumbria
Coral cat does love the garden that Fiona has made here; as do I. 😻😍
And we’re off. First Windermere Lake Cruises @windermereboats.bsky.social evening buffet cruise of 2026 with Fiona Music In The Lakes @fionamusiclakes.bsky.social 🙂⛴️🌅🎶
Lots of Painted Lady butterflies in the garden this week. May well be a release of hatched specimens from the primary school just down the road 💚
