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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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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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Wild Theme by Mark Knopfler
#LocalHero
To my mind one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard.
Very slightly shortened to fit Bluesky's 3 minute max.
The images don't really do justice to the music, but they reflect the location in which it's best heard, and felt. ❤️
July 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Only 6 months left until I’m here again ❤️
Ragged Robin at Camusdarach
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Woof
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
@martintravis.bsky.social
Your splendid images reminded me of this brief visit last March.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Ben's Beach a decade ago.
Always beautiful.
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Off to the beach.
This beach.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Mermaids in DC?
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Gneiss isn't it?
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Oldshoremore
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It seems that rules of governance were made for a different, less polarised, less populist, more hopeful era.
Such rules, especially vetoes, now making the world less safe, less humane, less decent.
UNSC, EU, SCOTUS, BBC Board of Governors ….
Partisan authoritarianism taking advantage.
What to do?
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A spot for quiet reflection on life, the universe and everything.
Sollas, North Uist.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Glad you liked it, @jonmelville.bsky.social did a grand job.
Every #LocalHero aficionado should enjoy this. ❤️
Took a break from scrolling and read "Local Hero: Making a Scottish Classic" by Jonathan Melville (Thanks for the tip, Skye). Fascinating book about one of my favorite films of all time, and a great prompt to watch it again. Lots of buried treasure in there. Highly recommend!
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bath time
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Airing clean washing in public.

Who hangs out dirty washing (even in private)?

And those checks are definitely M&S.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Left flank bias (but easy to see through)
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Right wing bias
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Space
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Space
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
BBC biased? Which way, left, right, up, down? 😳
Puzzled. Seems there's bias in some news/current affairs areas/people/programmes. Panorama video edit was clearly daft & amateur. Some interviews, timeslots etc. seem to favour the right.
It's a complex world in which we live. Maybe ask BBC Verify? 🤔
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Muck from Muck
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Rum from Muck Eigg from Muck
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM