🏛️ SP Bill 17: Climate Change (Scotland) Bill
This bill establishes Scotland's statutory framework for addressing climate change, setting legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets and creating accountability mechanisms for meeting them.
https://legisplain.org/bills/scotland-climate-change-bill?utm_source=mastodon
“On a wet and wintry afternoon in January, with the Braan in spate, licking the edges of the lower walkways, the work brings a kind of mammalian warmth to the dark and damp”
—Greg Thomas on walking Scotland’s Corbenic Poetry Path
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-rhythm-of-feet-walking-scotlands-corbenic-poetry-path
PIP review stuff. Forgot I had a charity appt to help me fill out the form today.
1. https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/beware-latest-pip-review-form
2. https://mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/welfare-benefits/pip-mental-health-guide/help-with-your-pip-claim/how-to-fill-in-the-pip-form/
3. https://mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/welfare-benefits/pip-mental-health-guide/help-with-your-pip-claim/supporting-evidence-for-a-pip-claim/
4. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67446cf2ece939d55ce92fa1/AR1_Personal_Independence_Payment_Review_Form.pdf
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A Kick Up the Arts podcast
Nicola Meighan visits the Alasdair Gray Archive & talks to Scottish writers Rory Watson & Alan Bissett about the wonder of words, the magic of old photographs, & the power of listening to women’s voices
https://www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/rory-watson-amp-alan-bissett
We’re back in Glasgow’s magical Alasdair Gray Archive on this episode, for a chat with two brilliant Scottish writers, and literary leading lights - Rory Watson and Alan Bissett … Rory’s latest poetry collection, The Silver of Old Mirrors , is a stunning, glinting and gentle reflection on a l
Careless of them...
Reform UK lose fourth #Scottish #elections candidate in less than a week | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25969913.reform-uk-loses-third-scottish-elections-candidate-less-week/
Maybe using GPS trackers would help 😂
Part 2:
https://rss.com/podcasts/the-scottish-food-history-podcast/1932954/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #podcast
In this special part 2 episode, Dr Lindsay Middleton and Peter Gilchrist dive back into the legacy of Florence Marian McNeill. With the help of Dr Gina Lyle, this episode examines how Florence changed Scotland and we hear, in her own words, where it all started.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116295049247030578
There are 2 episodes of the Scottish Food History Podcast on the life and legacy of Florence Marian McNeill. Presented by Dr Lindsay Middleton and Peter Gilchrist, with guests Jeremy Lee and Dr Gina Lyle.
Part 1:
https://rss.com/podcasts/the-scottish-food-history-podcast/1922679/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #podcast
“This is a perfect, hearty, oat-y bread with a lovely ginger flavor. It’s delicious and moist when fresh, but still excellent toasted and buttered the next day”
The History in the Making website shares F. Marian McNeill’s recipe for Broonie, a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from Orkney
4/4
https://history-in-the-making.com/2021/02/21/broonie/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #Orkney #recipes
In 2025, Birlinn published a new edition of F. Marian McNeill’s A SCOTS KITCHEN, edited & introduced by Catherine Brown & illustrated by Iain McIntosh
3/4
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-scots-kitchen-2/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #cookbooks
“Florence Marian McNeill had curated and created a book that had become an iconic, cultural bequest at a personal family level”
Amanda Edmiston explores the legacy of F. Marian McNeill’s classic cookbook THE SCOTS KITCHEN
2/4
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/dreaming-bread-and-flourishing-folklore/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory #cookbooks
‘I’ll do it,’ she said. ‘I’m very happy to have shortbread broken over my head… I can think of worse things.’ The shortbread – dreaming bread – round, encrusted with almonds, fresh out of the tin, baked the night before according to Florence Marian McNeill’s instructions in The Scots Kitchen (1929), shivered a little and started to […]
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