Bothy and bridge at Inchkinlock.

Someone shared this in the comments under another post and I thought it deserved greater visibility

A very deserving cause

https://greatbernera.org/save-our-community-centre/

^{I'm not an islander, so hopefully this post does not contravene the sub's no begging rule}

Had my money on it being the other way round, though I suppose in May it's more likely that students will be back in the latter.

I move around a lot and can't even use the mobile data I pay for because most places have terrible signal, even in city centres. It's the same in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dundee and Glasgow, with Glasgow being the worst. It's really frustrating, especially when you need the internet to navigate places.

Side entrance of the former Good Templar Halls of 1881 in Dyer's Wynd in Paisley. Site of the worst cinema disaster in Scottish history at Hogmanay in 1929 when 71 children died after a call of "fire" resulted in a stampede for the exits.

Almost a thousand children were at a matinee screening of silent western Dude Desperado when a smoking film canister lead to the fire panic. Many ran downstairs to a padlocked fire escape. Suffocating children piled up against the inward-opening door, police couldn’t break it open from the outside.

The disaster lead to amendments to the Cinematograph Act 1909 to make it a legal requirement for cinemas to have an increased number of fire escapes, all outward-opening and fitted with push bars, and for seating capacities to reflect the number of exits.

A wee herd of highland cattle on the road to Ben Hope.

Given Rockstars Scottish origin I’d love to see a car livery inspired by Tunnocks in the game.

Scots, I went to uni in Glasgow a few years back and one urban legend I heard a lot about was the Catman of Greenock. Apparently a stranded Russian sailor who lost both of his legs, retreated into the wilderness and for 40 years ate rats until in 2006 he was finally captured of camera.

Now I think surely that photo was staged, someone got their dad to cover their face in grease and pick up a rubber rat to take the photo.

Other times I've heard he was a vulnerable homeless man living in the urban decay of Greenock. But for 40 years? What do you guys think of this urban legend, was he a real scavenger who lived for decades on scraps? Or did he never exist?

I did look into it and it surprised me that apparently this dates back to the 70s/80s, with even a mention of a similar looking man in the 40s. So potentially an almost century old Scottish urban legend.

Aberdeen is so breathtakingly romantic as well, I almost think it+Aberdeenshire should be a country of its own

Just asking cuz they still look pink and i’m uncultured

I feel like this is a perfect visual representation of life in the Hebrides: Beautiful, wild and wet 😂

“Jobs could be lost as a result, and an occupational health expert said some had left the offshore industry rather than lose the weight”

And I suspect it’s a minority of a minority of people whose excess weight is owed to piled on muscle from the gym.