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Laine Thompson

@marlinhoister.bsky.social

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The sailor cannot see the North but knows the needle can. Full time carer for someone with LongCovid. Mostly photographs and thoughts connected to my immediate landscape in the ever decreasing circles of my life.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · Nov 16

Don't let me drown...

Tide rolling between a set of pier legs in the sunset. A tightrope strung between two of them. Three people. One balancing and attempting to walk the tightrope, the other two watching.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 52m

Morning Elaine 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 52m

Morning Paul. More dark than daylight for me this morning. 👋

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 56m

Two days ago was HMS Trincomalee's 208th birthday. Launched from the Bombay shipyard, India, 1817. As Britain’s oldest warship still afloat she never saw combat but undertook many duties that included policing, protection, and exploration. Now birthed here at the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning 🌅

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Beach Buoy @12bbytheseaside.bsky.social · 17h

Wonderful

Gareth @gareththelemming.bsky.social · 19h

Hearing the seals sing today was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever experienced; a real privilege

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 17h

At the edge of the pool, staring into the slippery, slick, white-ice surface, gathering information, mind lost in the depths.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 17h

The Bathers - 1918 Picasso

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 21h

Certainly looks like bone.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

September and October are probably my favourite months. 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

From the local chippy…

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Chip butty splash?
A new one for me. Not sure I’d be tempted. And definitely not deep fried.

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A Deep Fried Chip Butty Splash!

YouTube video by The Teesside Chef

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning Stephen. Really calm this morning. 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

It will not always be like this.

(Photo from this day several years ago at Helmsley.)

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Tilly in Toyland …

Yesterday was pumpkin pie. Today - I’m not quite sure lol.

Or something like that.

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Morning 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning 🌅

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

And yet I feel I don’t really know it at all. 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. 🙂

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t know where ‘advice’ came from. Should have been ‘after’.🤷🏻‍♀️

Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

A blue and pink blush crept in advice sun went down.🙂

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

End of another day.
You cannot know a place without returning. And even then once isn’t enough.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d

“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn’t she just.🙂

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 2d

Spiorad aird nam Murchan part 15 - Elemental Ardnamurchan is now live on the blog: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

The latest piece in my inspired writing and photography series and introducing a new sub series exploring the five elements of Ardnamurchan that make it what it is.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 2d

Another flypast.
(Tilly dog barking approval midway.)

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