Ray French

'Hilarious, heartbreaking diaspora tales... Irish men and women from that silent generation live and breathe on the pages of this brilliant ground-breaking book.' The Irish Times

@MelAndStuff_ Lovely stuff

Solstice hare doing its midsummer thing.

Everyday madness 🤪 Charity shop, North Berwick. Confused customer; 'What's this for?' Shop assistant; That? It's an ornamental lemon.'

@Clifton_AP 👍

@RayFrench15 I love Arthur's Seat! There's a large hill in my fictional city named after it (sort of).

Arthur's Seat from my kitchen window yesterday evening. Makes me want to walk to the top again now the weather is getting better

@trathnonadorcha 👍 Thanks!

@RayFrench15 Wow that's fantastic looking!

@simon_schama Unfairly overshadowed by Le Carre. Loved his novels and his non fiction book on the second world war, Blood, Tears and Folly is superb.

YES! I learned to cook (in mid 60s as a student with one gas ring) thanks to his cookstrips and his book collection "Ou est le garlic" (sic) - spy books wonderful; IPCRESS genius. Happy 97th Len !!!!

Animals of Scotland A-Z 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 R - the Rama Lama Ding Dong. John Muir Country Park

@MichaelRosenYes Because they can. Because there are never any consequences. But you're right to call it out. Hope is a discipline.

Why are they doing this?

Overheard on train #trains 'The next stop is Doncaster.' Boy to his mother: 'What's Doncaster?' 'We're stopping there.' 'Why?' 'It will pass, don't worry.' #trains

From Private Eye - though it's surely only a matter of time before its on the curriculum.

'I am a human being; I consider nothing human alien to me.' Terence the playwright, who was brought to Rome as a slave.

Forget the Italian lakes, the twilight at Aldi car park this time of year is simply divine. Some say its even better than at Lidl - though that's a controversial view.

@jonimitchell A beautiful song that never fades.

Winter is here ❄️ Let Joni’s “River” be the soundtrack of the season. Listen here: jm.lnk.to/river Photos by Joel Bernstein

Someone's been tampering with The Musselburgh Archer again #Musselburgh

The dimming of the day, Musselburgh - just outside that well-known beauty spot, Aldi.

I saw this in a charity shop and just couldn't resist. £4, what a bargain!

Waverely station, Sunday: A choir, The Polar Express, a middle aged woman dancing down the steps in a red & white xmas onesie covered in ho ho hos and reindeers. A bearded dude in a tee shirt that said Yay! It's Jesus's Birthday, a hippyish looking Jesus in garish colours.

Crow rubbing itself on the frost crusted roof of a car. Boy, was he enjoying himself on that car.

Psychedelic phone box, Portobello. Can you dig it? Step inside, close the door and turn on baby. What a trip!

Port Seaton #Eastlothian