Neil Dickson

Retired Independent Examiner of charity accounts. Retired university lecturer. Interests include academic dress history.

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

It’s good to see it’s not just me who gets annoyed by inaccurate depiction of academic dress by film makers. See Cherwell’s analysis of the academic dress in Netflix’s My Oxford Year https://t.co/hfJkOLJlp5

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

One of the great maintenance signs

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

Brilliant! How true!

[Graeme K @GraemeK73]

This is the Advent Calendar for those of us over a certain age!

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

I am now on Bluesky and Threads, both with the same handle as here @neil57d

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

I am now also on Bluesky with the same handle @neil57d as here.

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

I agree with @GraemeK73 and I love his Wrath gif.

[Graeme K @GraemeK73]

Can we cut back on the multiple processes now in place for doing the least little thing! Back in the day, it was a matter of just chatting with someone & it was sorted - now it’s having to wait around for weeks/months for a very simple answer or approval - very many wasted hours.

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@GraemeK73 @BBCOne Beautiful scenes in the Cloisters @UofGlasgow - and thanks to my wife who happened to record the programme!

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Always a pleasure welcoming President Bartlet and his staff back to the White House.

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@GraemeK73 No, not nosey. My mother taught me that we were never nosey, we just took an intelligent interest in our surroundings!

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

Thank you @bodleianlibs I am left handed but was totally unaware that it is #InternationalLefthandersDay today! #LefthandersDay #Lefthanded

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

Learn the art of the ‘wonderful effect of two-handed writing’ with this left handed autograph book for #InternationalLefthandersDay Could you do it?

#LefthandersDay #Lefthanded

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@SalisburyCath @UofGlasgow @magdalenoxford @MagdCollChapel Thank you - my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

I’m at @SalisburyCath #organprom Excellent program including Widor’s Toccata which always reminds me of @UofGlasgow graduations and Somewhere Over The Rainbow once sung by @magdalenoxford @MagdCollChapel choir from the top of the tower

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@GraemeK73 @UofGlasgow @burgonsoc I agree - full academic dress always looks elegant especially when worn with a dark suit and black shoes - it doesn’t work so well with t-shirt and trainers as one sometimes sees!

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@GraemeK73 @UofGlasgow I wear white bow tie and bands myself with black gown and FBS (Fellow of the Burgon Society) hood at formal meetings of @burgonsoc

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@GraemeK73 @UofGlasgow As it happens I’ve just been watching a DVD of Law & Order UK with James Steele of the CPS in court wearing bands!

[Graeme K @GraemeK73]

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience," Ronald Reagan.

This was said during a Presidential debate in 1984, when President Reagan was 73 & Walter Mondale was 56 - changed times!

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

The Streamline Moderne/Art Deco Kelvin Court on Great Western Road in Glasgow. Designed by J.N. Fatkin, it was built in 1938 as a luxury flatted mansion development, it was the largest such development in Scotland at the time it was built.

#glasgow #architecture #kelvincourt

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

Here is a wonderful parody of university rankings by @BantshireUni

[Bantshire University @BantshireUni]

New to Bantshire? Explore our 𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 university rankings.

➡️ https://t.co/0bueQA1BPR

[Neil Dickson @neil57d]

@GraemeK73 Very skilful. I’m impressed. Well done. Once again you and your colleagues efficiently solve a problem without disrupting the new graduates enjoyment of the day.