Sulidae/Bobby

words, birds and tunes. new single is Healing Light; funds for mental health SAMH.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

New single release on 14th Nov. Pre order here, ALL proceeds going to SAMH, supporting mental health in Scotland.

‘Motherwell's voice against Andy Lucas' piano and Seonaid Aitken's violin on "Healing Light" is just stunning.’ Marc Higgins, FATEA magazine

https://t.co/mrmyaVN2rf

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

A day that gave. #grateful

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

Here he comes.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

@Mmajor7th I’ll give it a go. It’s the pinky, I trick my fingers into playing the C#m7 then slam that pinky down ; ). I just need to work on that delay.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

I don’t believe that you can’t teach old dogs new tricks, but I know that it’s almost impossible to force old fingers into new chords. E/G#

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

@Mmajor7th The 4th C shape Barre sounds so much nicer. But not a barre shape I ever got to grips with. I will persevere! : )

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

I’m enjoying sitting this morning learning a couple of songs which floored me when I first heard them. It’s refreshing to play other peoples songs at times, particularly when it’s Colin Hay and Ron Sexsmith. Phenomenal songwriters both. And gorgeous songs.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

@Mmajor7th Ain’t that just the case.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

A return to the 80’s…

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

@Mmajor7th Aye, just got it today. I had one in the 80’s and always regretted selling it.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

@smalltounboy As ever!

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

A fine morning. The Buachaille.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

Going through picture options for the new book. #matterhorn #climbing #mountaineering

A Small Matter.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HE KNEW THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE. WEEKS LATER HE WAS DEAD IN A FIELD

Dr David Kelly was Britain's foremost weapons inspector. He spent years inspecting Iraqi facilities, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and knew more about Saddam's arsenal than almost anyone in government.

In 2002, Tony Blair's government published a dossier claiming Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Britain went to war on the back of it. No weapons were ever found.

Kelly knew the dossier was rubbish. He said so, quietly, to a @BBC journalist. That conversation ended his career, his privacy, and ultimately his life.

The MOD carefully allowed his name to leak to the press as the BBC's source. He was then hauled before parliamentary committees, stripped apart by his own employer, and thrown to a media frenzy he never asked for.

Two days after giving evidence to MPs, the 59-year-old was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home.

Instead of a proper inquest, Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to run a private inquiry. Hutton concluded suicide. The inquest was opened, then suspended, and never resumed.

Eight senior legal and medical figures, including a coroner, later wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was unsafe. They argued the wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not have caused sufficient blood loss to kill a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife found beside his body, even though he was not wearing gloves.

In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Grieve rejected all calls for a new inquest. He said the Hutton Inquiry was "tantamount to an inquest" and that further investigation would be dismissed by judges with irritation.

A man challenged the government's justification for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly destroyed, died in mysterious circumstances, never got a proper inquest, and the people who sent him into that media storm faced no consequences whatsoever.

Tony Blair became a Middle East Peace Envoy the following year. You genuinely could not make it up.

Sources: @BBCNews, openDemocracy, Hansard, @thetimes | Hutton Report

[Johnny @JohnnyDundee]

ITN UK News "The country is sweltering in a heatwave"

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

I find Gorecki a wonderful way to begin morning. Enjoy your Sunday folks.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

Agnostic Gospel or Skeptic Folk, I can quote decide? #genre

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live :

1. The Phantom Band
2. Admiral Fallow
3. Randolph’s Leap
4. Magazine
5. The Uncle Devil Show
6. The Monochrome Set
7. Sister Sledge
8. Bright Eyes
9. Aztec Camera
10. Honeyblood

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

Book first draft edit done. I’ll celebrate with a 0% beer.

A read over again tomorrow. #grateful

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

@AlanMcginley6 Ach, I’m fine. Meds worked quickly, going climbing today, just a bit of stiffness.

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

There are many age related conditions one can expect to pick up now I’m in my 60’s, but I really wasn’t figuring on gout being one of them. Hopefully a single flare up. #whatsthechances?

[Sulidae/Bobby @TravisDurden]

Today I’ll go climbing. I’ll continue with a draft edit of my book. I’ll make bread.
#thingsilldo