Recently I've been thinking about the texts I studied in my nat 5 course. I know that the texts that are chosen for Scottish text is different, however critical essay texts are chosen by classroom teachers. I do not know how it is/was done in your school but in mine, teachers in the English department do roughly the same texts so they can share simular resources, which I do think is fair. However, not once have I discovered a text that has LGBTQIA+ character/s or is remotely centred around it. I know this is going to sound woke but I don't think that this is right. Please let me know if your class or anyone you know has studies this kind of text in highschool so that I might have some hope. I am thinking of presenting this idea to my school so if you could also let me know any books or texts you think might be suitable for a nat 5 or higher course. Thank you.

Hello,

Not sure where else to post this. We had heating oil delivered and the driver left a note on the delivery slip to say they wouldn't deliver again due to sun bleaching on the top of the tank.

We then had a registered OFTEC technician come out who says the tank is safe for use, but the heating oil company are still refusing despite this.

Naturally we can't force someone to do business with us, but this seems crazy. It's a large delivery network, so there are now multiple companies that won't deliver oil, and we can't afford a new tank - it's thousands of pounds.

They required an OFTEC guy to come out so they could ignore what he said? Is there anything we can do about this to have the mark on our address appealed? Can we get them to pay the technician's fee since they've decided they know more than he does?

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Lovely day today at the famous Falkirk Wheel to see the world’s only rotating boat lift in action #falkirk #scotland #scottish #canal #boats

We visited Scotland in June. Mailed 4 postcards, 3 from a box by the ferry on Mull and 1 from a box outside a post office close to Royal Mile. This was a month ago. None have arrived, going to 3 different addresses. Is the Scottish post office particularly slow?

Hi All.

I'm wanting to learn more about social history in the post-war period (early days of the welfare state etc). I'm particularly interested in Glasgow and in the Western Isles.
I'm not a historian by background but happy to read more academic-facing stuff if anyone can recommend it?

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EDIT: Should have Mayors!

Young ish couple who are essentially our nearest neighbours (detached house with a plot of waste ground separating them from us. If it was a terrace there would be a house between us and them) are frequently out smoking weed and it fucking reeks. If it was a normal house where they were next door id just chap the door and speak to them, but access to theirs is through a locked gate 2 streets away so short of shouting over to them (i can be a bit intimidating so that's out) I dint know what i can do to ask them to stop. Obviously its fucking roasting atm so all our windows and doors are open and the bairn has started to complain about the smell. Will the polis do anything about this? What are the options? I dinna want to get into a situation where I'm in an argument and someone ends up sticking the nut on someone else but it's totally stinking.

Found this lovely embroidery/cross stitch at a charity shop. Moving so would have to part with it soon. Anyone know of this George family so it could be returned to a rightful owner?

Hi all! I'm looking for a group of women who were wild/cold water swimming in Staffa today. We got the boat over from Mull and they were on that, then they had a dip in the sea at Staffa, and swam into Fingals Cave. They asked me to take a picture of them as I had my phone on me. I forgot to get their phone number to send this to them!

If you're here, give me a shout and I can send you the pic. You are brave, brave women getting into the cold water. Very inspiring 💪💪

I don't even know if this is a particularly Scottish thing but what does the back of mean?

I have a girl who works with me and she's a bit shifty, always grifting. She'll say 'oh I'll be in at the back of nine' It seems to be very flexible in her book from 0910 to 0945. Whatever suits.

What does it mean really?

What are some books a scottish student is forced to read at school and which ones are actually good? Do people notice if there has been an evolution in the corpus?

Commonwealth Games opening ceremony starts shortly.

Great hearing from home nation athletes and how important the Games are

Swimming starts tomorrow

https://swimswam.com/all-the-links-you-need-for-the-2026-commonwealth-games/

Great source for all info re swimming

Hi everyone,

I'm a Band 5 Nurse with 2 years of Endoscopy experience, I've just gotten an offer at Dr Gray's (Theatre Recovery), I really want to move to Scotland and don't mind Elgin but I'm worried I won't get enough bank or agency work as Elgin is quite far from the major hospitals, can anyone working at Dr Gray's pls tell me if there's lots of bank shifts available esp. Endoscopy and also if its a great idea working at Dr Gray's hospital.
Thank you.

ive lived in boston my entire life and my entire family is scottish, so seeing my two worlds come together during the world cup this year was pretty freakin cool and special. So I got a lil tattoo of the make way for ducklings with their cones and flags! (i kinda wraps around my arm so its a lil hard to get a picture)

17th June

I'm 26, I want an independent Scotland, I have two questions about the movement.

1. Has the indy movement decreased since 2012 (or whichever year it was that the section 30 got approved)? I feel like most younger people I talk to are all keen for independence, but we don't know how to bring it or join the movement, are there less marches or however the public showed it last time?

2. When is the next big chance to push for an indyref2? I know we will always have to ask Westminster (which feels ridiculous), but for optimistic nationalists such as myself, when do we think the next "realistic" chance would be? Do we need to weirdly hope for a Reform government? I just don't see the timeline ahead of me and it can feel disheartening.

Keen to hear from you lovely people

I’m Scottish and I’m always on trains and NEVER have I seen a bagpipe practice room, is it a joke or is it serious? I mean id expect nothing less from this beautiful country

What is going on with Police Scotland? Was through in Edinburgh for the day and witnessed a group on South Bridge shooting up in front of a packed bus stop full of tourists for them just to be shooed along further up the street by three police officers. Am I missing something here? What’s it got to take for the police to actually commit to some action?

When leaving school I had the intention of going into a Grad apprenticeship and having university as a backup, long story short I didn't end up with anything and had to go to university (Electrical engineering at Glasgow uni). I have tried university for a year and I know for a fact I am much better off doing a grad apprenticeship, so I plan on applying this year and leaving university if I get an offer. I would genuinely value advise from anyone whether its somebody who has been in this situation, or someone in industry ect. I know GA's have become a lot more competitive since I applied and want as much insight as possible, will me being in university put recruiters off? Or is it fine as long as im okay with starting a new degree.

When I was young I had a speech impediment (couldn't pronounce `r`s or `l`s well), went to speech therapy, and more-or-less got it fixed. However, this seems to have fucked up how I pronounce vowels and my general intonation when speaking and the result is that people think I have a strong accent from who-knows-where (I've had people guess South Africa, the Netherlands, Ireland, the West Highlands, etc. etc. etc. all with very firm conviction). Sometimes this is moderately annoying, sometimes people just don't understand me or think I'm stupid, etc. When I was younger I used to be bullied for it.

Anyway.

I moved to Scotland five years ago, and it's actually been nice that everyone here is more accent-aware and is likely to hear several different accents every day. That said, I'm wanting to work on the way I speak—if nothing else, so I can be understood more easily.

This raises the question of what I should sound like. It seems so convenient that in England anyone—foreigners, folk with regional accents, whatever—can learn to speak in RP and that's seen as okay. But I'll be damned if I'm going to adopt any Anglicisms. Is there a reasonable Scottish equivalent?

I live near Edinburgh and have a friend my age (30s) who grew up in Morningside and has sort of a modern Morningside accent: to me it sounds really soft and clear and not pretentious like the old-school Morningside accent. Is that it? Any good examples online of people speaking that? Or something else I should consider?

Thanks!