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skyebalou.bsky.social
Skye
@skyebalou.bsky.social
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🇺🇦🦋 #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.
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Skye @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:

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France from England this morning
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“Maybe it’s banal,” he says, eventually, “I just think we should be kind. Instead, we’re anti-refugee, beat each other up, kill people in their thousands. Be good, be kind, help the poor, take care of each other while we’re here. That’s what I keep coming back to.”

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Richard Holloway: ‘I’ve spent a life wrestling with the b...
The writer and former bishop talks about the soul, the Good Samaritan and life after faith
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 4d
The forewarning of the hoolie
28 July 2018
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Aftermath of a hoolie, after a ceilidh, Applecross Highland Games 2018
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 5d
Tiree, May last year.
Glad it wasn’t blowing a 96mph hoolie back then!
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 5d
Er, yes I agree 💯
But this was a movie made over 40 years ago.
With a good message. Spoiler following.

The oil terminal caper became a marine research institution.
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
It'll doubtless be a wee bit windier today as Amy advances.
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Isle of Taransay (Tarasaigh)
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Wind whipping up the Sound of Taransay, across to the mountains of north Harris.
Isle of Taransay to the left, Tràigh Losgaintir to the right.
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Traigh Baile, Beàrnaraigh na Hearadh
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Mostly Derbyshire in England, but the Cliffs of Insanity were based on a premonition of the 2025 White House. No sorry, the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
No filming in Scotland.
Another great score by Mark Knopfler. Doesn't quite match #LocalHero in my view, but still pretty wonderful.
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Q4 #LocalHero
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · Jan 7
Local Hero quiz #LocalHero

Q4. What's the number plate of the Ford Cortina in which Mac and Danny arrive in Ferness?
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Traigh Bhalaigh, North Uist
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Eabhal from the outlet of Loch Obasaraigh
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A benchmark for pleasant places to sit and contemplate.
Lochmaddy, North Uist.
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d
Barra from Eriskay
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 7d
Life is pain Highness, anyone who says differently is selling something.
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 8d
Q3 #LocalHero
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · Jan 6
Local Hero quiz #LocalHero

Q3. How long did Geddes reckon the oil terminal would last?
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 8d
Carsaig, Isle of Mull
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Kilanaig on Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull
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Pabbay being unwrapped
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 10d
Q2 #LocalHero
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · Jan 5
Local Hero quiz #LocalHero

Q2. In what year did Felix Happer’s father buy out Alexander Knox?
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Rum and Eigg from Muck
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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 11d
I read that as “Donald Trump has ordered a military invasion of Poland “.
And my first thought was, no surely that’s the other guy, the other dictator?
My 2nd was, ah no maybe it’s trump, he’s crazy enough.
My 3rd was, yeah right, he’s invading his own country. Par for the course.
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