Did the @bbctms commentator really suggest that @cricketireland could play in orange strips? 🙈
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Chris Blake
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Chris Blake
@ChrisBlakeLBW
Geologist now working in the Timber Industry • Munro Bagger • 247/282 • Mostly mountains, cricket, football & politics.
Dingwall, Scotland Katılım Ağustos 2023
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@JohnSwinney Wasnt it the SNP who put the kybosh on the Rosebank field? Make your mind up John.
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We can’t let history repeat itself.
Thatcher’s policies wiped out our industrial communities - Labour’s windfall tax is doing the same to today’s North Sea workers.
Scrap it, save jobs and let Scotland build a fair transition into renewables.
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Feel this Scotland womens team is flying under the radar - I make that 7 wins on the bounce! Incredible form.
Cricket Scotland@CricketScotland
𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗜𝗡!!! We defeat Namibia by seven wickets, chasing down 75 inside nine overs 💥
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@LesleyRiddoch Half of Scotland? So you can only support the Scotland team if you support independence? What a completely weird take.
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Listening to Radio Scotland phone-in. Tidal waves of repressed hope & joy unleashed. Have to write a column today. But sitting greetin, laughing and replaying vid of McTominay searching for his mum after that goal. Helps to hear half of Scotland is also awash with emotion. 🏴
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@GillianMacMSP @scotgov Totally confused by your tweet, surely the Greens would want the closure of a heavily polluting plant?
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Workers in Mossmorran are being betrayed just as workers in Grangemouth were.
@scotgov must urgently make a statement outlining how they plan to support the workers.
We cannot lose yet more livelihoods to the whims of detached multi-millionaires. This is not a Just Transition!
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Genuinely dont know what she wants.. the plant to stay open or to shut? You cant have a hydrocarbon plant without hydrocarbons...🤔
Lorna Slater@lornaslater
We urgently need a statement from the Scottish Government on the closure of the Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran. Exxonmobil are destroying the planet, the surrounding community in Fife and now the livelihoods of hundreds of workers by pulling the plug on production.
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@_JamieMcIntyre @thebankscot @scotgov Despite the grant funding we simply aren’t planting enough comm. forests. 80% of low rise housing in Scotland is timber frame, yet we import all the timber from East Europe! If the @scotgov spent the money on planting instead of peat everything would be 👌
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@ChrisBlakeLBW @thebankscot @scotgov Exactly. So unless you're suggesting we shouldn't have public & community forestry, we need to fund it. Not use public funds to subsidise *commercial* forestry which is already grant funded *and* enjoys very generous tax advantages.
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Why does @thebankscot anticipate the quoted benefits - because Gresham House told them? Where is the independent oversight? By their own past admission, SNIB have no forestry expertise. And seemingly did not even consult @scotgov's own forestry department.
scotsman.com/hays-way/scots…
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@_JamieMcIntyre @thebankscot @scotgov Public and community forestry doesn’t pay, it’s a money pit. No one has ever turned a profit from planting birch, oak and rowan. If this country wants to have the £1bil timber industry in 30 years we need to plant commercial forests now.
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@ChrisBlakeLBW @thebankscot @scotgov That doesn't address the issue that the money could have been used to support public & community forestry, whose benefits are more fairly shared. This was *public* money invested at the very same time public forestry budgets were slashed.
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Everyone losing their shit because 300 asylum seekers are being housed in Inverness and I’m thinking… wonder how many play cricket? 🤔😂
Inverness Courier@InvCourier
Asylum seekers to be housed in Inverness army barracks inverness-courier.co.uk/news/asylum-se…
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@AlexHartley93 It’s the equivalent of scheduling an outdoor pingpong tournament for February in Fort William.
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Amazing news, not just for Mollie, but for proof that a pathway exists for young female cricketers in Highlands. 🙌🏏🥳
Ross-shire Journal@Rossnews
Former Dingwall Academy pupil gets first senior Scotland call-up ross-shirejournal.co.uk/sport/former-d…
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@ChrisBlakeLBW @ThatsSoVillage We have both Zing Bails and stumps. Our village cricket league has just banned them for being too progressive as of next season.
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What’s the most village thing that happened in your match at the weekend?
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@theJeremyVine last item discussing whether people called “Al” get confused with artificial intelligence is peak @AccidentalP 😂
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@ThatsSoVillage We dropped the oppositions opening bat on 70, 120 and 175. He went on to score 215*. We lost 282-0 vs 235ao.
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What’s the most village thing that happened in your match at the weekend?
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A disappointing result but was great to bat against a rising star of Scottish women’s cricket. I tried to see off Mollie but she got me with her last ball. This girl will go far, I’m sure of it! 🏏 #Cricket #nosca #WomensCricket
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Trip to see the Reds in Cincinnati.
Rained off in the 6th… that’s not cricket! (Or is it? 😂)
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Last climb before the weather broke.. Sgurr Alasdair on Skye. Mildly terrifying.
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