Today marks the 34th anniversary of the RAF Shackleton plane crash in South Harris. I was on teaching practice in Tarbert School and watched it fly over Taransay in the morning. My wee sister eerily announced it was going to crash. I remember scolding her for it. 10 people died.

#OTD 1667 John Arbuthnot bapt (d 27 Feb 1735)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿FRS ‘Physitian in Ordinary’ to Queen Anne. His 1692 translation of Huygens's ‘De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae’ was the first work on probability in English. He also developed the first formal significance test (1710). 1/8🧵

Does this fit the pattern of giving dishes names after exotic places but aren't actually from there etc etc.

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East Lothian? A word please...

Summer 1970

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Postie, Joan Niven bringing the mail across the River Findhorn using the 'bucket bridge' at Drynachan in winter 1959/60.

This hand-propelled cable-car style device was the only way to get mail (and phone messages) across at the time.

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Hive mind: If I wanted to research a mid-20th racehorse, its career, owners, pedigree etc., what resources are available to me? 📖🐴

I have a pretty good horsey #OldWeirdScotland story lead that I'd like to do justice!
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Shepherds used whole boiled neeps to bend the horns of sheep away from their cheeks.

Corkscrewed onto the horns, the neeps applied sustained heat and moisture and allowed the shepherd to safely reshape the sheep's headgear.

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Sunday trivia question:

What use might a shepherd have for a neep* that had been boiled whole until soft?

Any ideas?

(keep it clean now!)

*(turnip/rutabaga/swede etc etc.)

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This is 'Salmon Trout' a LNER Gresley A1/A3 Pacific locomotive, built 1934 and scrapped 1966, but a donor of parts to the Flying Scotsman of fame!

(thanks again Trains Twitter!)
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Steam railway enthusiasts/ proud nerds!

Can anyone confirm what engine this is? Late 50s, early 60s photo I think.

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Happy Weekend!

Please enjoy this scene from the #6 Meigle carved stone.

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Happy Weekend!

Please enjoy this scene from the #6 Meigle carved stone.

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In case anyone would like to own this #crapmapofScotland or has an interest in Invergordoniana...

ebay.co.uk/itm/1561613384…

16th March 1569. Bessie Smith complains to St Andrews Kirk session that her husband, Andrew Lumsden, has 'nocht adhered to hir in bed for twelf years'.

Church decrees that he must 'adhere to her' within 48 hours. Her neighbours to report back and confirm.

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Yesterday in 1844.

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'Well mett, I'm David Calderwood'

'A cow has brought furthe fourteene great dogge whelps in stead of calves and another, efter the calving, became starke madde, so that the owner was forced to slay her. A deid bairne was found in her bellie.'

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Today's the 410th anniversary of the Scottish cow that gave birth to dogs.

For that, and a round-up of other news from 1612 we turn to our correspondent, David Calderwood.

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