James Beaton
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Formerly Librarian, now retired, Gaelic speaker, Bagpipes, Inveraray #haemochromatosis - the venesections work. Germanophile. Emerging Hispanophone. Own views
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I remember the last total eclipse here in 1999. It was the sudden drop in temperature that struck me.
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Evidently the teaching of Latin in Glasgow’s schools did not go to waste….😂😂
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Why do I become unreasonably annoyed by the presence of Douglas Ross on my television screen?
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I don’t want effing tax cuts. I want decent public services.
Chancellor considers further national insurance cut to take heat off Rishi Sunak
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Interesting thread. We were in Argentina and Uruguay in April, and what was interesting was that when changing money the rate for GBP was nowhere to be seen. US dollars and Euros were the preferred currencies (as was the Brazilian currency but for different reasons).
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Who indeed will think of, and act for the white private school boys?
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I haven’t seen this tweeted for a while. It always makes me laugh.
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So 75% don’t think that, which is one of these overwhelming majorities, I’d say.
🔺A quarter of Scots believe that devolution has been bad for the country, a poll has found.
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I have found that speaking Gaelic to them makes them stop altogether.
I have devised a new method for dealing with junk callers. I politely ask them for the second and the fourth number of their PIN so that I can verify their identity.
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Borders can be controlled both ways, eh. Who’d have thought it?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no……
Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas.
At 248,663 gross tonnage (GT), it is the largest cruise ship in the world. The vessel has a max carrying capacity of 7,600 guests and 2,350 crew.
[📹 thecruisespotter]
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Well, I’m over 50 (over 60 truth be told) and he can do one.
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It’s quite nice feeling to have taught the woman singing Auld Lang Syne on BBC Scotland.
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Breed them to die. The cry of those who have never fought and never needed to throughout the ages.
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Me.
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Now that’s an ice cream. Memories of childhood.
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Well done Ian Blackford. There is no context in which these words are acceptable.
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@Ianblackford_MP
: “Can the prime minister tell us what sanctions he thinks would be appropriate for someone who publishes racist content...[such as] describing Africans as flag waving piccaninnies with watermelon smiles?”
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First rate.
And the Ayr Advertiser comes through once again 😂😂😂
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My mother, sometime in the 1950s, with a golden eagle. As you do.
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Brexit.
What exactly is preventing you from moving to France?
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I fail to see why a geographical feature in Wales should not be called by its Welsh name.
As far as virtue signalling goes, changing the name of the Brecon Beacons is one of the more bonkers ideas I've heard in some time.
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Just listening to Mark Drakeford giving evidence to the UK COVID enquiry in Wales, and pondering just how poorly served this island was by the UK government, and the shower running it.
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Indeed. I’m always up for being told what to think by someone living in London.
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Jane Austen is not being dropped by Stirling University. My source being a professor from the department in question, I dare say she’s more reliable than the Daily Telegraph.
#tripe
I love the idea that a British university, by dropping Britain's most signficant female novelist in favour of an American one, is somehow decolonising itself.
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Effie (not surprisingly) has me blocked. Something to do with Fort William and road signs. It’s bonkers.
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Working, eh?
BREAKING: Queen Camilla is taking a break from public duties for some "downtime", which means that NONE of the four most senior royals - King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton - are working right now.
All is not well with the Royal Family. 💁♂️
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I mean, I’m in this age demographic, but really? I wouldn’t be seen dead in a meeting like this.
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Still in everyday use in Scotland. As a noun and a verb.
Word of the day: OXTER (outdated)–a person's armpit.
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At the risk of being a leftie and being blocked by Mike, I’d venture a guess that this photograph was not taken in a supermarket based in mainland Europe.
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I seem, at the age of 60, to have suddenly obtained a child out of nowhere at all.
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This just popped up in my memories. It’s a place called Glen Shira, just outside Inveraray and it’s where I grew up.
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For fans of Trainspotting, I am i the pub with the bannister over which Begbie chucked the glass.
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So, I received notice this morning from my employer, that my post will be redundant from 30 October, so I’ll be leaving the Piping Centre then. It’s been a good 10 years, and I’ll not be looking for anything else.
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One of the good things about coming back on to Twitter is to have come across serendipitously a very entertaining and nice world of mildly eccentric American librarians.
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It’s good this, isn’t it?
Boris Johnson wasn't able to understand even the basic science on Covid and had to be repeatedly told about simple things like infection rates, the former Deputy Cabinet Secretary Helen MacNamara confirms to the Covid Inquiry.
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Just no.
Icon of the Seas is scheduled to enter service on 27 January 2024 out of PortMiami.
At 248,663 gross tonnage (GT), it is the largest cruise ship in the world.
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I became a great uncle today, and am pleased about it. (I haven’t met her yet, but she looks great in the photos).
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I’m coming to the view that the Remembrance events are becoming a lot more fetishised than they were when I was a kid, when there actually were men and women who had served in the two wars present at the ceremony, and as for this shower currently running amok in London…1/2
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