Skye Balou
@skyebalou.bsky.social
🇺🇦🦋 #LocalHero Brit Awake
Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
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Skye Balou
@skyebalou.bsky.social
· Apr 7
Life, love and hope – a 40-year-old tale evolves to engage with the world’s most pressing crisis: climate change.
Here's my story about a story:
skyebalou.wordpress.com
Here's my story about a story:
skyebalou.wordpress.com
Q20 #LocalHero quiz
#LocalHero quiz
Q20. How did Andrew spell out the name of the gentleman coming from America to see Mac?
Q20. How did Andrew spell out the name of the gentleman coming from America to see Mac?
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Q20 #LocalHero quiz
Moving on ….
Loch Broom and Ullapool
Loch Broom and Ullapool
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Moving on ….
Loch Broom and Ullapool
Loch Broom and Ullapool
Calculations suggest that UK tax on petrol/diesel for cars, at present levels, will be about 2.5 times higher than the new (from 2028) EV mileage tax of 3p/mile.
Not great but still a lot cheaper than petrol and diesel. Would have been better still if the 5% VAT on home energy bills was scrapped.
Not great but still a lot cheaper than petrol and diesel. Would have been better still if the 5% VAT on home energy bills was scrapped.
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Calculations suggest that UK tax on petrol/diesel for cars, at present levels, will be about 2.5 times higher than the new (from 2028) EV mileage tax of 3p/mile.
Not great but still a lot cheaper than petrol and diesel. Would have been better still if the 5% VAT on home energy bills was scrapped.
Not great but still a lot cheaper than petrol and diesel. Would have been better still if the 5% VAT on home energy bills was scrapped.
The Mallaig to Armadale (Skye) ferry - June 1998
Did you own one of those Ferraris?
Wonder where they are now. Scrapped maybe 😉
Or at best, off the road.
Did you own one of those Ferraris?
Wonder where they are now. Scrapped maybe 😉
Or at best, off the road.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The Mallaig to Armadale (Skye) ferry - June 1998
Did you own one of those Ferraris?
Wonder where they are now. Scrapped maybe 😉
Or at best, off the road.
Did you own one of those Ferraris?
Wonder where they are now. Scrapped maybe 😉
Or at best, off the road.
Loch nan Ceall
Timeless
(this was 1998)
Timeless
(this was 1998)
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Loch nan Ceall
Timeless
(this was 1998)
Timeless
(this was 1998)
Chilling the strand
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Chilling the strand
Prisoner 951
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Prisoner 951
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
Berwick-upon-Tweed, very close to the east coast border, which for some reason hits the North Sea a couple of miles north, ensuring the town is in Northumberland. But only since 1482.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Berwick-upon-Tweed, very close to the east coast border, which for some reason hits the North Sea a couple of miles north, ensuring the town is in Northumberland. But only since 1482.
Bamburgh, Northumberland.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Bamburgh, Northumberland.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
Dunstanburgh Castle, on the magnificent Northumberland coast.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dunstanburgh Castle, on the magnificent Northumberland coast.
Nice rocky profile, from Camusdarach
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nice rocky profile, from Camusdarach
Something's reminded me of the beautiful slow air by Tammy Anderson (1910-1991) Da Slockit Light, about migration in the 1960s from the rural areas of his homeland, Shetland.
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
The speed of sheep
Eventide for sheep in the slow lane at Bunessan, Ross of Mull.
The music that was playing is "Da Slockit Licht" (The Lights are Out) written in 1969 by Tom Anderson (Shetland fiddler), performed by Paul Sartin & Benji Kirkpatrick, from the compilation album Folk Music of Scotland.
I don't know who the birds or the sheep were..
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Something's reminded me of the beautiful slow air by Tammy Anderson (1910-1991) Da Slockit Light, about migration in the 1960s from the rural areas of his homeland, Shetland.
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
Hampden Park-by-Sea
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hampden Park-by-Sea
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Something's missing 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Something's missing 🤔
Parking's at a premium on Barra 😉
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Parking's at a premium on Barra 😉
Here's a couple of quick questions for Putin. Even though I'm fairly sure he's not one of my followers (though could be hiding out there), nevertheless word travels fast around here:
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Here's a couple of quick questions for Putin. Even though I'm fairly sure he's not one of my followers (though could be hiding out there), nevertheless word travels fast around here:
What's in a name?
Castlebay
Castlebay
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What's in a name?
Castlebay
Castlebay