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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Scot now living in Slovenia. #ScotsAbroad Semi-retired internet consultant, chess player and administrator, landscape photographer, guitarist, Dorothy Dunnett commentator. http://www.dorothydunnett.co.uk

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 7m

They should never have built the Thames flood barrier.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 13m

Hmm, no wheel > no cars > no internal cobustion engine > less CO2 > less global warming. Clearly a man ahead of his time. ;-) Was he by any chance influenced by Eric Laithwaite and his maglev trains?

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1h

That was my other worry.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1h

I'm afraid to look at that in case it permanently screws up my suggested videos. I get enough crap about the 3i atlas as it is.

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European Movement in Scotland @euromovescotland.bsky.social · 14h

Aberdeen University has awarded an honorary degree to 100-year-old Jim Glennie, the last Gordon Highlander alive to fight on D-Day, 6th June 1944. “We wanted to honour not just him, but his entire generation for freeing Europe from Nazi tyranny" said the University.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, I will leave your internal visualisation untainted. 😇

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 3h

But, but, you missed Oliver Reed in a very frilly shirt!!

So you really would have been the one in the audience "getting tired of looking at handsome young men"? 😜

Better not ask whether you thought any of them were Jerott material then...

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 4h

In the after-lunch spot you need a bit of visual stimulus to keep audience from nodding off. 😋
The hero film stars got some laughs and the candidates for J got plenty of approving murmurs!😍

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 6h

An added bonus was that I got very bad Hay Fever in the so-called Scottish summer. Here I found the pollen didn't bother me at all.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 6h

Well there was also the numerous holiday where we were rained out eg Arran 12 days of torrential rain out of 14. The next year we came here for the first time - sunshine, warmth, stunning scenery, lovely people, cheap and good wine, and no midges! Was an easy sell really and the dream was born.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 6h

We should be able to do copyright strikes!

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 7h

Jerott was somewhat lighter and more humorous in tone, though the extracts and descriptions were no less valid. Hope you liked the pictures of possible candidates 😉
I think there was an attempt at indexing but I'm not sure if it's accessible. Ask Suzanne, the editor. She'll know.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly they rather liked me. One of the reasons I started coming over here!

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 7h

Yes I remember reading about that, and the horrific mouth and throat cancers that resulted from it. And of course medicine at the time was ill-equipped to help. Truely awful.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 10h

All EU members must sign up to the ECHR, because it is a legal obligation under the Treaty of Lisbon. So of course parties in England who don't want the UK to rejoin the EU would much prefer we left it.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 22h

There was a beach near Dalgety Bay in Fife which was found to be contaminated with Radium - believed to have come from poor recycling of glow-in-the-dark instrument panels from aircraft. Needed multiple clean-up jobs.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 23h

Distinctly non-trivial. They can reduce tough forestry workers to tears and greatly reduce outdoor working capacity in those areas.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 23h

Yay for Strontium, which was used in glass-making, and the village - not so Yay for S 90 which got into kid's bones by replacing Calcium and was a major health scare at the time, but at least encouraged the test ban treaties..

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 23h

Fun fact, the element Strontium was named after the little village of Strontian, after it was discovered in the mineral Strontianite in lead mines in the area.
The radioactive isotope Strontium 90 was notoriously released by nuclear tests and contaminated the milk supply worldwide.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

...and they're just Plague number 2...

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Used to often take the ferry to Morven and visit a hotel in Strontian which is about half way to Ardnamurchan. Went to the lighthouse with dad once when he was consulting on the windows, and got to climb up to the light room. The views were amazing.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, have driven through Onich many times, usually on the way to the ferry.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Do you remember which sea loch?

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Contrasts depending on which direction you look from Kosec in the afternoon.

Autumn colours against dark mountain clouds. Kosec, Slovenia

Old barn pillar framing the view to Dreznica

Late afternoon autumn view over Dreznica

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who's watched an Oban sunset from Pulpit hill or chased it along the road from Loch Awe, or stood at Arisaig or Ardnamurchan and looked out to Rum and Eigg - they never forget it.

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