The WIP #27: Struggle for Power
The Week in Photos (29 June - 5 July 2024)
This week, political parties have been fighting the election, with widespread expectations of a Labour victory.
I voted by post …
… before walking across to Ramshorn Kirk graveyard, inspired by the Cameron Rowland piece in GI. Learn more about Glasgow’s role in the slave trade.
Dustsceawung is an Anglo-Saxon word I learned this week from
. It means ‘contemplation of dust’. Can you see the motes floating in the sunlight?
Are you feeling contemplative or just exhausted?
Or feisty? Things are different in Dalmarnock.
Chris Leslie has revisited the area ten years after documenting the story of a family who refused to leave their tenement to make way for the Commonwealth games. Fascinating social history. Check it out at Strangefield.
The weather has been appalling this week, like winter, but a new dawn is here. So it was slightly odd to take a trip to the the only Tory area in Scotland.
Here are some more scenes of pigeons scrapping:
