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#ScottishNotBritish #Yes ProEU+Indy Dundonian. Likes bier, books, philately, guitars, yodels and U-Boats. A sometime Gamer, sometime Blogger, foreign TV junkie. Eurovisioneer! and @Stewartog@mastodon.social https://yodellingboy.blogspot.com/

Classic 70s style science fiction cover showing what might be a shuttle craft leaving a much larger space station.
This set of stamps show the rebuilding work in Austria following World War 2. They show construction, mining and various stages of rebuilding in the cities and countryside.
Images show: swastika dagger through Austria, broom cleaning up the axis powers, burning cathedral, hand in a concentration camp, hand holding a nazi snake by the neck, nazi symbols being smashed, re-defining the republic, Austria rising from the ashes of naziism.
Stamps show Italia turrita, the national personification or allegory of Italy, is the appearance of a young woman with her head surrounded by a mural crown completed by towers. Three values shown - 30 brown, 40 pink and 70 green.
Albert Speer's, Hitler's armaments minister, view of Germania for when the war was over.
Portrait of King Baudouin of Belgium from the 60s, probably.
Dark and moody view of the Orkney Islands coastline.
Image shows a forward facing head & shoulders portrait of General franco in a dark orange shade.
The 4 Schilling pink stamp from the Beautiful Austria series. Image shows the Almsee.
GB 1st class Scotland definitive showing a red lion rampant on a graded yellow/orange background with 1st and Queen Elizabeth's head in silver.
7" 45 rpm of Agnetha Fältskog's, "The Heat Is On".
German duo Modern Talking.
Nena from Germany.
Johann Strauß Sohn.
Foreigner, showing a number 4, like on their named album, "4".
Teresa Teng.
English R'n'B band 9 Below Zero.
7" 45 rpm of Eiffel 65 entitled Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Logos of The Rolling Stones.
7" 45 rpm single of Legs by ZZ TOP
7" 45 rpm, part of a double EP set, " Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie" by Albertos Y Lost Trios Paranoias.
Headshots of the Fab Four - The Beatles.
Slovenia's Atomik Harmonik.
7" 45 rpm Status Quo's cover of Wild Side Of Life.
7" 45 rpm Nacht voll Schatten by Juliane Werding.
Cassette cover of Juliane Werding's album, "Ohne Angst".
Glam Rockers Mud and their long player The Singles '67 to '78.
7" 45 rpm of Love Struck Baby by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
Scottish rockers, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
45 rpm 7" You're My Heart, You're My Soul by the German Duo Modern Talking.
Engelbert Humperdinck.
Lyin' Eyes by The Eagles.
The New York Dolls.
Rock 'N' Roll Is King by the ELO.
American Girl by Tom Pettey and the Heartbreakers.
The Spider Murphy Gang from Germany.
John Williams, classical guitarist with a guitar.
Pictures of Roy Wood from his days with The Move, ELO, Wizzard and as himself.
Cover of the first Boston album showing guitar spaceships containing cities fleeing an exploding earth.
Picture of Status Quo Lineup - Rick Parfitt, Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan.
Kraftwerk : the pioneers of electronic music & their legacy on a background showing the band as showroom dummies.
My Storygraph summary for January showing the covers of the most recent books, a pie-chart breakdown of genre, a point graph of date vs pages read and a pie-chart of book type (print and digital).
Basically the German is translated to: One litre of beer contains all B vitamins and niacin, 20% adult daily Potassium, 45% aduly daily Magnesium, easily digestible quick source of energy - Beer has it all!
Difficult to Alt-Text this. It is a photograph of a circle of my followers or those I follow.
Image shows cover of Stuart MacBride's novel "Flesh House", featuring Detective Logan McRae. Image shows an old, empty enamel bathtub in what appears to be a derelict house. Given that this crime novel involves people being butchered, you can use your imagination to determine the purpose of the bath.
Image shows cover to Billy Kay's book, "Scots : The Mither Tongue." The image itself shows a page covered with Scots words and phrases: scunner, gin ye dinnae laugh ye wad greet, flitting, laverock, breenge aboot, redd up, nyaff, giein it laldy, sleekit, sonsie, baffies, howff, thirled, puggie machine, faither, gantin for a gunk, gaither aw yer graith thegither, it's lowsin time, o aw the airts, dreich, gallus, watergaw, shoogly, a thrawn wee besom, pinkie, braw.
Image is of Tom Steel's book, "Scotland's Story," which was shown on Channel 4 TV back in the 1980s. The red cover shows a Lion Rampant holding aloft a Saltire.
Image shows the cover of "20001 A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C Clarke based on the screenplay by Stanley Kubrick. The image shows the charactor Dave Bowman, played by Keir Dullea. It is a head shot of Dave wearing his spacesuit as he enters the HAL-9000 computer to disconnect it.
Image show the cover of EE "Doc" Smith's "The Galaxy Primes". This is the Panther Science Fiction cover and shows a large Space Ship and smaller Shuttle Craft.
Image shows cover to "All The President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward and shows a photograph of possibly the two journalists at their workdesk.
Image shows cover of Jillian Becker's biography of the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion / The Red Army Faction), "Hitler's Children: The Story Of The Baader-Meinhof Gang". The cover shows a red five pointed star containing a machine gun overprinted with RAF - the logo of the RAF.
Cover of novel, "Berlin Game" by Len Deighton. Image shows a ripe apple cut on half with a flick knife showing a bug eating its way out from the core.
Image is the cover to the book, "The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look At A Violent Decade", by Gerard DeGroot and shows a black and white inner city scene, possibly European, of bombed houses with adults running towards the camera.
Cover of book, "The Cold War: A World History", by Odd Arne Westad. The image shows variosu soldiers standing around in a battlefield setting.
Image is of book cover, "Blue Angel Days" by Margarete von Falkensee. Sub-text : erotic escapades from the world of The Blue Angel. The novel is a sequel to Blue Angel Nights and is set in decadent 1930s Berlin. Image shows a scantilly-clad woman lying on a bed looking straight to camera with a neckalce of pearls in her hands.
Image is of the cover of the Penguin English Library edition of, "Robinson Crusoe," by Daniel Defoe. Cover shows Robinson dressed in home-made skins repairing his parasol.