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Title	The Steamie - Tuesday 28 April 2020
Author	SteamieBot
Body	Weather [(Powered by Dark Sky)](https://darksky.net/poweredby/) Light rain starting tonight. Around 4 to 11 degrees. Travel No line problems reported. What's On Today Fuck all. Stay at home. Today in Scottish History The poet, William Soutar, author of The Diaries of a Dying Man, was born in Perth on this day in 1898. After changing from studying medicine to literature, Soutar's first volume of poetry, Gleanings of an Undergraduate, was published in 1923, within a year of his graduation from Edinburgh University. Soutar suffered from a gradual immobilising illness, ankylosing spondilitis, and from November 1930 he was permanently confined to bed. He spent his bed-bound days composing poetry, escaping through his imagination, and holding court to his many visitors and fellow writers, dressed in jacket and bow tie. Soutar died from tuberculosis in October 1943, at the age of 45. The house where he lived and composed his poetry, the "Soutar Hoose" in Perth, is now home to a writer in residence. Sir Alexander MacKenzie, the Scottish composer and conductor, died in 1935. Mackenzie conducted the British premieres of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, and Borodin's Second Symphony. His noted choral works included the cantata, The Bride, the opera, Colomba, and the oratorio, The Rose of Sharon. /r/GlasgowMarket Digest No recent posts Tune of the day [None](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHwgpYfCV-0&t=176s) (via /r/ScottishMusic) No eligible links submitted today. [Suggest tomorrow's tune](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=SteamieBot&subject=SongRequest&message=YouTube link here).
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Created	Tue 28th Apr 2020 6:00am
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**Weather** [(Powered by Dark Sky)](https://darksky.net/poweredby/)

Light rain starting tonight.

Around 4 to 11 degrees.

**Travel**

No line problems reported.

**What's On Today**

Fuck all. Stay at home.

**Today in Scottish History**

The poet, William Soutar, author of The Diaries of a Dying Man, was born in Perth on this day in 1898.
After changing from studying medicine to literature, Soutar's first volume of poetry, Gleanings of an Undergraduate, was published in 1923, within a year of his graduation from Edinburgh University.
Soutar suffered from a gradual immobilising illness, ankylosing spondilitis, and from November 1930 he was permanently confined to bed. He spent his bed-bound days composing poetry, escaping through his imagination, and holding court to his many visitors and fellow writers, dressed in jacket and bow tie. Soutar died from tuberculosis in October 1943, at the age of 45. The house where he lived and composed his poetry, the "Soutar Hoose" in Perth, is now home to a writer in residence.

Sir Alexander MacKenzie, the Scottish composer and conductor, died in 1935. Mackenzie conducted the British premieres of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, and Borodin's Second Symphony. His noted choral works included the cantata, The Bride, the opera, Colomba, and the oratorio, The Rose of Sharon.

**/r/GlasgowMarket Digest**

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**Tune of the day**

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No eligible links submitted today. [Suggest tomorrow's tune](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=SteamieBot&subject=SongRequest&message=YouTube link here).