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Some
#Scottish
emojis on
#WorldEmojiDay
(via
@JamesMelville
) 🤓
🤢 Peely-wally
😤 Steamin
🤐 Wheesht
☔️ Dreich
😠 Radge
👍 Braw
🤪 Numpty
🍔 Scran
🍺 Bevvy
😵 Blootered
🍀 Jammy
😲 Jings
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😍 Bonnie
⚽️ Fitba
🥊 Skelp
🥔 Tattie
💩Jobby
#Scots
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Suffragettes march down
#Edinburgh
's Princes Street in 1909. Never forget the hard - sometimes bloody - struggle for women's suffrage that resulted in (some) women gaining the vote exactly 100 years ago today.
#Vote100
#Suffrage100
#Suffragette100
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This is Samwell
Sam reads books,
Cures fictional diseases
And proves Snow genealogy
Sam proves that the mind
Is mightier than wildfire
Sam uses libraries
Be like Sam
#Tuesdaythoughts
#GameOfThrones
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The battle of
#Culloden
took place
#onthisday
in 1746. The
#Jacobites
, under Charles Edward Stuart, were defeated by loyalist forces. This is a 1748 plan of the battle, drawn by an eyewitness >
#Scotland
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This is Samwell
Sam reads books
Cures diseases
And investigates Snow genealogy
Sam proves that the mind
Is mightier than wildfire
Sam uses libraries*
Be like Sam
#Tuesdaythoughts
#GameOfThrones
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Good morning from a pretty drookit Edinburgh.
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This tweeter has had 'Donald where's your troosers?' by Andy Stewart playing in their head all afternoon. For some reason it's been accompanied by this image of
@SamHeughan
from
@Outlander_STARZ
.
Just one of those days...
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update...
"NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST."
― J.R.R, Tolkien
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"You are
#TheLastJedi
"
"In the universe?"
"No, in the Library - we're closing"
#Librariesweek
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Your randomly nice word of the day is:
GLISK
v. n. (Scots)
Sunlight glimpsed through a break in the clouds; a fleeting glance at a glittering sight; a brief glow of warmth from a fire that's burned low; a sudden flash of hope in the heart.
(Definition via
@RobGMacfarlane
)
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This compelling 1822 map of the
#Highlands
shows the counties and districts inhabited by the clans of the time. Zoom in closer online >
#Scotland
#Highlanders
#Outlander
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update...
YOU GET IDEAS FROM DAYDREAMING. YOU GET IDEAS FROM BEING BORED. YOU GET IDEAS ALL THE TIME. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WRITERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IS WE NOTICE WHEN WE'RE DOING IT.
— Neil Gaiman (
@neilhimself
)
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Your word of the day is:
HURKLE-DURKLE
v. n. (Scots)
To hurkle-durkle is to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up and about. One can also be in hurkle-durkle (in indolence).
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Your regular reminder that the word 'bed' is shaped like a bed.
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update...
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MARCH DAYS WHEN THE SUN SHINES HOT AND THE WIND BLOWS COLD: WHEN IT IS SUMMER IN THE LIGHT, AND WINTER IN THE SHADE.
— Charles Dickens
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This is your Scottish libraries
#BookLoversDay
weather update...
“RAINY DAYS SHOULD BE SPENT AT HOME WITH A CUP OF TEA AND A GOOD BOOK.”
― Bill Watterson
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We're totally *not* envious.
Not envious.
At.
All.
Not one teensy tiny minuscule elementary particle of envy here.
No sir.
<lip quivers slightly>
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Your word of the day is:
UPPLE
v. adj.
(Of rain or snow) to cease falling, to lay off, to clear - 'When the weather at any time has been wet and ceases to be so, we say it is uppled.'
Definition by
@ScotsDictionars
/ image taken by our friends
@OrkneyLibrary
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Today Scotland celebrates
#BurnsNight
- the anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard.
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Why visiting a Library should be your New Year’s Resolution*
#ThursdayThoughts
#NewYearsResolution
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Good morning.
Today is 22.2.22.
This afternoon it will be 2:22 on 22.2.22.
This evening it will be 22:22 on 22.2.22.
So that's nice.
#Twosday
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And during the internet there are... libraries
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Good morning. Your randomly nice word of the day is:
VELLICHOR
n.
The strange wistfulness of second-hand bookshops, which are somehow infused with the passage of time... a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.
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Dreich
adjective SCOTTISH
(especially of weather) dreary; bleak.
"a cold, dreich May day"
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This is your Scottish libraries weather update...
TODAY IS THE SHORTEST D-
#WinterSolstice
#shortestday
#FridayFeeling
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Calling
#Outlander
fans (and
@SamHeughan
)
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Another *gorgeous* sunrise in
#Edinburgh
today... the colder seasons have their little consolations 😍
#ThursdayMotivation
#Scotland
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Good morning. Your randomly nice word of the day is:
PETRICHOR
n.
The pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
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Happy
#WorldPoetryDay
everyone. Even if you can't travel, books can still take you places x
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Friends, we’re *delighted* to tell you that we’ve secured a rather special manuscript for the nation.
1/12
#FortingallManuscript
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Suffragettes march down Edinburgh's Princes Street in 1909. On
#IWD2021
remember the struggle for women's suffrage that resulted in (some) women gaining the vote on 6 February 1918.
#InternationalWomensDay
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Do not adjust your screen.
This is Scotland at 8:41am.
The darkness is normal.
Thank you.
#TuesdayThoughts
#Scotland
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It’s the weekend, so here’s some suggestions for enjoyable leisure activities:
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Other stuff
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<cough> 29 million items <cough>
Over 13 million items, every last one of them ready to ignite sparks of joy.
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This is your Scottish libraries weather proclamation...
I SEE SKIES OF BLUE
AND CLOUDS OF WHITE
THE BRIGHT BLESSED DAY,
THE DARK SACRED NIGHT
AND I THINK TO MYSELF...
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
#TuesdayThoughts
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update...
A BOOK IS A DREAM YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND.
— Neil Gaiman (
@neilhimself
)
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Those days when you just want to tweet a picture of Keanu with a Library card.
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This is Spock.
Spock uses his vast knowledge
And refined logic
To turn Vulcan't
Into Vulcan.
Spock reads
Be like Spock.
(And happy
#StarTrekDay
everyone)
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We thought we'd use
#280characters
to ask you all to
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
read more
Thanks
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Rain is wet
Wet is bad
Visit a library
It is dry
(Dry is good)
Read a book
Books are good
Read for free
(Free is good)
Libraries are good
#Mondaymotivation
#Scotland
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update...
“RAINY DAYS SHOULD BE SPENT AT HOME WITH A CUP OF TEA AND A GOOD BOOK.”
― Bill Watterson
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“I have lived a thousand lives
and I’ve loved a thousand loves.
I’ve walked on distant worlds
and seen the end of time.
Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin (
@GRRMspeaking
)
#TuesdayThoughts
#GameOfThrones
#GoT
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This is your Scottish libraries
#ChristmasEveEve
weather update...
A BOOK IS A DREAM YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND.
— Neil Gaiman (
@neilhimself
)
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When you're in the middle of a Zoom call to
@OrkneyLibrary
and you see
@ShetlandLibrary
in the lobby
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This is your
#LibrariesWeek
weather update...
LIBRARIES REALLY ARE THE GATES TO THE FUTURE.
— Neil Gaiman (
@neilhimself
)
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This is Hermione Granger
Hermione reads (a lot)
Be like Hermione
#BookLoversDay
#Harrypotter
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So we discovered that
@matthaig1
's 'To be a cat' (2012) has a lovely wee flickbook animation contained within... 😍
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OK, here's our
#PancakeDay
recipe - 'Rich Pancakes' from the Burnfoot House recipe book, 1790. Perhaps eaten by Jamie?
#outlander
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update...
OVERALL, THE LIBRARY HELD A HUSHED EXULTATION, AS THOUGH THE CHERISHED VOLUMES WERE ALL SINGING SOUNDLESSLY WITHIN THEIR COVERS.
— Diana Gabaldon
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A lot of whisky in the arms of a *very* strapping man 😍🥃❤️ in this 1940s poster.
#worldwhiskyday
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The front cover of Rover & Wizard magazine (1966), 'Red MacGregor' is on the front cover - an
#Outlander
even then? 🤺⚔️
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This is your Scottish Libraries bookish weather update...
HE DREW A DEEP BREATH. "WELL, I'M BACK," HE SAID.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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This is your Scottish libraries weather update...
Today is DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE
FIRE BURN AND CAULDRON BUBBLE
Repeat
DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE
FIRE BURN AND CAULDRON BUBBLE
#HappyHalloween
#scotland
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Your randomly nice word of the day is:
GLISK
v. n.
Sunlight glimpsed through a break in the clouds; a fleeting glance at a glittering sight; a brief glow of warmth from a fire that's burned low; a sudden flash of hope in the heart.
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This is your Scottish libraries weather update...
I DON'T CARE IF MONDAY'S BLUE
TUESDAY'S GREY AND WEDNESDAY TOO
THURSDAY I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU
IT'S FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE*
#Fridayfeeling
#Scotland
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“RAINY DAYS SHOULD BE SPENT AT HOME WITH A CUP OF TEA AND A GOOD BOOK.”
― Bill Watterson
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A view of the Castle...
This is 'Edinburgh Castle from the Grass Market' taken by James Valentine c1860s-1870s.
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Morning all. Still foggy in Edinburgh. This was Victoria Terrace yesterday.
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Suffragettes march down
#Edinburgh
's Princes Street in 1909. Never forget the hard - sometimes bloody - struggle for women's suffrage. It resulted in (some) women gaining the vote 100 years ago and is being celebrated today with
#processions2018
#Vote100
@womenslibrary
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By the way who saw the lovely (almost double) rainbow in Edinburgh this morning?
This was the view from the mound, looking west over Princes Street.
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Remember - if a vampire slayer can find time to read books YOU CAN TOO.
#BookLoversDay
#Buffy
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Your fairly interesting word of the day is:
HAAR
n. (Scots)
A cold mist or fog, gen. used on the east coast of Scotland for a sea-mist. Can also be used to refer to a cold easterly wind.
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This is your Scottish libraries bookish weather update:
“IN ANCIENT TIMES CATS WERE WORSHIPPED AS GODS; THEY HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THIS.”
― Terry Pratchett
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Reading is *good* for you
So make your stress less
With a little readingness
#StressAwarenessDay
#WednesdayWisdom
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This is Tyrion
Tyrion reads books
And outsmarts (nearly) everyone
Tyrion proves the mind
Can be sharper than the sword
Tyrion is going places
Be like Tyrion
#Thursdaythoughts
#GameOfThrones
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This is your Scottish libraries
#WorldBookDay
weather update...
A BOOK IS A DREAM YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND.
— Neil Gaiman (
@neilhimself
)
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This is Spock.
Spock uses his vast knowledge
And refined logic
To solve problems
And turn Vulcan't
into Vulcan.
Spock reads
Be like Spock.
#Mondaymotivation
#StarTrek
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"I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away."
The late, great
#DavidBowie
, who was born
#onthisday
in 1947
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Today we celebrate
#BurnsNight
— the anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s National Bard.
#BurnsNight2022
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