Scottish Words Illustrated https://stooryduster.co.uk 25 Years of Scottish Words illustrated. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:06:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.6 Post Title https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-3/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-3/#respond Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:06:47 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-3/ Wee reminder at #Perth #Scotland – The #European #bagpipe championships kicks off Saturday – with a massive pipe band march through the city on Sunday. #bagpipes to the fore. #music #kilts #drums good spirits and bonhomie … Continue reading Post Title →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-3/feed/ 0 Post Title https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-2/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-2/#respond Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:03:25 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-2/ “Keir Starmer’s resignation must open door to leadership that stands for human rights, justice and solidarity – at home and abroad” Oxfam UK “Hope lies in building a society that is kinder and more united, both … Continue reading Post Title →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title-2/feed/ 0 Post Title https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title/#respond Thu, 21 May 2026 21:14:58 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title/ Shop local, use cash, support your local community.“Support your local bookstore, buy online from libro.fm and bookshop.org – not because this will break Amazon’s monopoly power (for that we will need unionization, antitrust, and tax enforcement), … Continue reading Post Title →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/post-title/feed/ 0 Curl-doddy https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/curl-doddy/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/curl-doddy/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:16:32 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18571 Girl with a handful of botanical posters of clover, devils bit scabious, and narrow leaved plantain yelling at her brother who is lying in the grass among daisies and buttercups admiring the seed heads of rib-wort plantain (scabiosa lanceolata). All on a sunny day.

Girl with a handful of botanical posters of clover, devils bit scabious, and narrow leaved plantain yelling at her brother who is lying in the grass among daisies and buttercups admiring the seed heads of rib-wort plantain (scabiosa lanceolata). All on a sunny day.Ye canni ca it curl-doddie, that’s for the deil’s bit scabious frae the Scabiosa family, an dinni snigger. An dinni be pinging them seed heads at me neither. Nor peltin me wi the stalks. Translate: curl-doddie, … Continue reading Curl-doddy →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/curl-doddy/feed/ 5 Fliskie. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/fliskie/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/fliskie/#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:34:03 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18567 Two women in protective head scarfs and greatcoats with a gas powered heater emitting steam strapped to their backs stroll in front of two brutalist style apartment blocks where a couple with a fire burning in the hallway peer out. Meanwhile ash and dust fall like snow from a blackened sky.

Two women in protective head scarfs and greatcoats with a gas powered heater emitting steam strapped to their backs stroll in front of two brutalist style apartment blocks where a couple with a fire burning in the hallway peer out. Meanwhile ash and dust fall like snow from a blackened sky.Aye, it luiks like the wild fires are getting fliskie again goin by the amoont o suit an smut teemin doon. It’s gey heavy and is coating the groond somethin awfie. Like snaw. They must be … Continue reading Fliskie. →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/fliskie/feed/ 0 Piece-time. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/piece-time/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/piece-time/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:22:50 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18563 A dolphin on the surface of a calm sea and has red a contraption fitted to its back with wires running from a steering wheel to suckers attached to its flippers. Sitting in the open cockpit of the contraption sits a man with goggles and a snorkel listening to a mermaid that only has her head above the translucent waters.

A dolphin on the surface of a calm sea and has red a contraption fitted to its back with wires running from a steering wheel to suckers attached to its flippers. Sitting in the open cockpit of the contraption sits a man with goggles and a snorkel listening to a mermaid that only has her head above the translucent waters.Richt, I’ve telt Wincel here that come his piece-time he’s jist tae dive two minutes at a time fur catchin his fish. That’ll gi ye a chance o a gasp o air atween times. Awricht? He’ll … Continue reading Piece-time. →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/piece-time/feed/ 0 Vivre. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/vivre/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/vivre/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:28:53 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18556 A male and female dwarf with red pointy hats, blue aprons and gardening implements are harvesting large red berries from a large leafy fruitful plant that is watching them from eyes in its root below ground. The view below ground shows the large gnarled root clutching the bones of previous burials in amongst the earth and stones.

A male and female dwarf with red pointy hats, blue aprons and gardening implements are harvesting large red berries from a large leafy fruitful plant that is watching them from eyes in its root below ground. The view below ground shows the large gnarled root clutching the bones of previous burials in amongst the earth and stones.Alfie dear, ah’ve an awfie urge tae have some mair bairns. Cos them berries gie us aw the vivers aw year roond we’ll ever need and it’s gien me a spring in my step. It’s aw … Continue reading Vivre. →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/vivre/feed/ 1 Carline. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/carline/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/carline/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:01:38 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18552 Seashore scene, seen from the edge of the dunes looking out to sea where a wizard, with a huge ear trumpet to his ear, lies prone alongside a colleague taking notes amongst the dune grasses. The trumpet is pointed at a witch on a broomstick talking to a crescent moon, with a face, just above the horizon.

Seashore scene, seen from the edge of the dunes looking out to sea where a wizard, with a huge ear trumpet to his ear, lies prone alongside a colleague taking notes amongst the dune grasses. The trumpet is pointed at a witch on a broomstick talking to a crescent moon, with a face, just above the horizon.Thon carlin winni care that it’s jist yer auld hearing aid. If we’re caught she’ll go jist as hard on us for usin that as she would if we’d used devilisch speirin whigmaleeries. Anyway I think … Continue reading Carline. →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/carline/feed/ 0 Gam. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/gam/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/gam/#respond Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:51:30 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18543 Two men with a trolley holding a giant tube of toothpaste on top of a huge wall are cleaning the teeth of an ape the size of King Kong. While below another manicures its nails.

Two men with a trolley holding a giant tube of toothpaste on top of a huge wall are cleaning the teeth of an ape the size of King Kong. While below another manicures its nails.Cleanin the gams o Kong’s Bairns aw day every day. Is this really the best job on this island you could’ve got us? An what happened tae the previous folk on the job? Translate: gam: a … Continue reading Gam. →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/gam/feed/ 0 Ken. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/ken/ https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/ken/#respond Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:25:10 +0000 https://stooryduster.co.uk/?post_type=comic&p=18520 A naked man in a cyclists crash helmet is sitting on a flying device that looks just like a giant paper aeroplane and which is driven by a rear propeller. It is flying above a desert dotted with cactus. Below three foreshortened individuals can be seen discussing the event.

A naked man in a cyclists crash helmet is sitting on a flying device that looks just like a giant paper aeroplane and which is driven by a rear propeller. It is flying above a desert dotted with cactus. Below three foreshortened individuals can be seen discussing the event.He’s no feart but dinni ask me as tae why he’s nakit. Ah dinni ken, ah’ve nivir asked, ‘n nivir will, an he kens it’s cactus country as far as the ee can see. As tae … Continue reading Ken. →]]> https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/ken/feed/ 0