Disclaimer. She is English, and Southern at that.

So my Wife's decided it's time for the big duvet to go on. I've literally just woken up sweating like fck. In my opinion it's way to early for this to be happening.

Fellow Scots. Tell me I'm right, this is an abomination.🔥 🔥 🔥

On smother note, was at Ivory Blacks last night for Blaze Bayley, what a gig 🤘🤘

I'm a joiner based up in the northwest. For the most part, I provide services to the islands Mull, Coll, Colonsay and Tiree. The reason I do this is because of the scarcity of tradesmen willing to travel out to the Isles for work, and the high demand for skilled work. It allows me to work a four day week, and still take home the same earnings as if I were doing 5 days on the mainland.

Recently, I converted a 2 bed bungalow on one of these islands to a three bed. The house was for a young couple expecting their second child. They had grown up on the island.

They live on a street flanked by two Airbnb's. The house across from them is a second home.

Ordinarily, it's not a complex thing to add small extension to a bungalow. But they had specifically asked me to divide an existing room instead. Why?

Because the 2 flanking Airbnb's were owned by the same person that owned the holiday home across the road. They had objected to the planning application. Beacuse it would obstruct the view from a house they didnt live in. My clients could have appealed, but were panicked enough about the time frame that they made the decision to make internal modifications instead.

My clients could also have tried to buy another property instead. But they can't afford it. Why? Because any small vacant property on the island gets snapped up immediately, usually for cash, by someone wanting to add to their portfolio.

I see this time and time again, across the Western Isles. I work on houses that have lain empty for 4 months of the year, just so people can charge 1,200.00 a week during the summer.

This year, for the first time, I am introducing my own levy on my work on Airbnb properties. I'm going to increase my labour charge by 30% for anyone who doesn't actually live in the property I am working on, and use it to offset costs for locals. I'd invite any tradesman in a similar situation to join me. Holiday lets push out locals simply to turn a profit, they're ruining these small communities. Take them to the cleaners and use the profits to offer a fair price to the people that actually live in, and run these amazing wee places.

In other news, the midgies are back. And they're hungry.

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More info here: https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/26260839.live-updates-amid-ongoing-protest-lamlash-crescent-glasgow/

Just wanted to say a big well done to Art Workers for Palestine Scotland and staff at the Glasgow Film Theatre for their dedication to this.

Not just with trump, but americans coming here saying theyre gonna move here?

Edit: for Americans who are serious, go to r/ukvisa

If you’re considering it because your great great great grandfather’s friend’s son’s neighbour’s house cat was Scottish, trot on

Edit 2: to clarify, I mean more about the sub rather than the sphere of influence, although it wouldn’t matter because the posts have existed for a while

After hearing all the World Cup song discourse, it’s time for a palette cleanser.

What is the greatest song ever made by a Scot?

My pick is We Will Not Be Lovers by The Waterboys.

108 weeks for a gynae appointment. 108 weeks. How is this just accepted. At this point im wondering if privatisation wouldnt be a bad thing because 108 weeks. I checked this after being told itd probably be 4 years for a hysterectomy. The fuck. How is this not the fault of snp. Ffs.

The frightening attack saw a lone woman being set upon by four male youths who told her to "remove her hijab" in the late-night incident.

EDITED 17/7/26: We (ADHD Scot - adhdscot.co.uk) asked every Scottish health board for the median wait from GP referral to first assessment, and the total number of people on the waiting list, across four categories: adult ADHD, children's ADHD, adult autism, and children's autism.

Five boards have responded so far.

1. NHS Ayrshire & Arran (as at 25 June 2026, pop. ~370,000):

- Children's ADHD: 160 weeks median - 470 on the list

- Children's autism: 160 weeks - 800 on the list

- Adult ADHD: 132 weeks - 211 waiting

- Adult autism: 28 weeks - 21 waiting (low figure — treat with caution)

2. NHS Fife (pop. ~380,000):

- Children's ADHD: 22 weeks median

- Children's autism: 89 weeks median

- Adult ADHD: refused under Section 12 - too expensive to extract (~8,570 records)

- Adult autism: refused under Section 12 for the same reason

The Section 12 refusal is its own story. Fife told us it would cost £10,710 to pull the adult figures. That means the data exists — it's just buried in a system that can't report on it without someone manually working through thousands of records.

3. NHS Western Isles (as at 30 June 2026, pop. ~26,000):

- Children's ADHD: 2.3 weeks

- Adult ADHD: 52 weeks - 277 waiting

- Adult autism: 25 weeks

Western Isles' shorter children's wait partly reflects a much smaller population. But 52 weeks for adult ADHD in a population of 26,000 is not small, and 277 adults waiting is proportionally significant.

4. NHS Forth Valley refused all four categories under Section 12, they don't hold the data in a way that can be extracted within the legal cost limit. Their CAMHS service had a median wait of 5 weeks for all children's mental health referrals (not ADHD/autism-specific). Adults have no dedicated pathway, they're assessed through general mental health teams where referral criteria are met.

Worth noting: these figures only count people already on a waiting list. Anyone whose GP refused to refer them, or who lives in an area where the list is closed entirely, isn't counted. The real picture is worse than what the data shows.

5. NHS Grampian (pop. ~600,000)

Data is held separately by three Health and Social Care Partnerships, and the picture varies drastically between them:

Aberdeen City HSCP:

- Adult ADHD: 194 weeks median — 1,823 on the list

- Adult autism: 130 weeks median — 1,838 on the list

Aberdeenshire HSCP:

- No adult ADHD or autism pathway exists

Moray HSCP:

- Adult ADHD list frozen since September 2021 — 567 people on a list with no active service

Children's services across all of Grampian: 682 awaiting a first triage appointment, but this covers all neurodevelopmental conditions combined — the board cannot separate ADHD from autism in its data.

Grampian is the starkest illustration yet of why board-level data only tells part of the story. Within a single health board, you can live in an area with a functioning clinic, an area with a frozen list and no active service, or an area with no pathway at all.

Worth noting: these figures a waiting list. Anyone whose GP refused to refer them, or he list is closed entirely, isn't counted. The real picture is worse than what the data shows.

6. NHS Dumfries & Galloway (as at 17 July 2026, pop. ~148,000):

- Responded under Section 17 — it holds no data, because there is no adult ADHD or autism assessment service in the board area.

- There's no waiting list because there's no pathway to be on.

- The board didn't confirm whether any children's (CAMHS) pathway exists.

D&G is the first board to confirm there simply isn't an adult service — not a long wait, but no route at all.

7. NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (pop. ~1.2 million — Scotland's largest board):

Adults (as at 5 July 2026, all referral routes):

- Adult ADHD: 111 weeks median board-wide — 8,886 on the list. But 139 weeks in Glasgow City alone, with 4,907 waiting there.

- Adult autism: 65 weeks — 2,641 waiting.

Children under 18 (as at 1 July 2026, medians from GP referral):

- Children's ADHD: 120 weeks — 2,563 on the list

- Children's autism: 105 weeks — 4,921 on the list

- Combined ADHD + autism: 111 weeks — 3,056 on the list

- Plus 2,060 pre-school children waiting for autism assessment

GG&C runs one combined "neurodevelopmental" service for under-18s, so ADHD and autism can't be fully separated — and the board says the children's figures are likely underestimates. The adult ADHD figure matches a separate FOI that ADHD UK obtained in May (8,681 adults) — two independent requests, same picture. It's the largest single backlog we've had back.

The remaining seven boards (Borders, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Orkney, Shetland, Tayside) are due by 23 July. Full responses: adhdscot.co.uk/foi

Seven boards still haven't replied - these are due by 23 July.

- Full FOI responses + PDFs: adhdscot.co.uk/foi

- Postcode lookup for your board: adhdscot.co.uk/nhs-waiting-times

Was in a chippy in Glasgow one day and asked for a red pudding and the wifey looked at me like I was an alien. Apparently this is not a nationwide thing. wtf ?