Carol Kubicki
@carolkubicki.bsky.social
Campervan owner & travel writer in northwest England and beyond. Hiker & cyclist. Reading more books than might be healthy! Long-time environmentalist. Support 🇺🇦. Blog at https://backontheroadagainblog.com/
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Carol Kubicki
@carolkubicki.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Glengoulandie Camping & Dùn Coillich Community Land
Blossom on fruit trees in the community woodland From our pitch I was easily distracted from learning French on Duolingo as a dipper flew along the burn below us and disappeared under the bridge wh…
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A laid back campsite with access to community owned land with regenerating woodland was the perfect place for a couple of nights in our #campervan. #Scotland Glengoulandie Camping & Dùn Coillich Community Land – Back on the road again share.google/E1g9zDHtGmPQ...
If you're visiting Scotland the Walk Highlands app is essential kit.
We recently passed 2,200 of walking route descriptions on Walkhighlands (we really are supposed to be updating/improving routes and not adding more!!). But did you know that you can also post your own reports from walks on the site too - regardless of whether you followed our routes or not?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If you're visiting Scotland the Walk Highlands app is essential kit.
Happy #LancashireDay everyone. Some views from our lovely northern bit of the county.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Happy #LancashireDay everyone. Some views from our lovely northern bit of the county.
Takes me right back to primary school! I can't remember why we needed to make pompoms but we had a production line 😊
Pictures that explain things.
Making pompoms
(More things to Make, 1973)
Artist: Eric Winter
Making pompoms
(More things to Make, 1973)
Artist: Eric Winter
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Takes me right back to primary school! I can't remember why we needed to make pompoms but we had a production line 😊
I had to wake my brain up for this 😂
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I had to wake my brain up for this 😂
Why build a wall when you have a tree! ##ThickTrunkTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Why build a wall when you have a tree! ##ThickTrunkTuesday
On your marks, get ready ... 😊🐈
'Go Cats' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt #Monday
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
On your marks, get ready ... 😊🐈
An honest review of using an AI exoskeleton to assist mountain hikers with mobility issues. Interesting, a bit hopeful but with limitations. #hiking www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/hypersh...
Going bionic in Eryri: can AI exoskeletons open up the mountains for disabled hikers?
Rosee Woodland strapped into a Hypershell exoskeleton for hiking - but would this new tech live up to all the hype?
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
An honest review of using an AI exoskeleton to assist mountain hikers with mobility issues. Interesting, a bit hopeful but with limitations. #hiking www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/hypersh...
A piece of art to get lost in, firstly focusing on the sun but then noticing the other details and colours. Glorious.
The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A piece of art to get lost in, firstly focusing on the sun but then noticing the other details and colours. Glorious.
A story of human supermarket life ...
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A story of human supermarket life ...
#Ukraine still needs your support and Florence is caring out fantastic work to help. This will be money well spent.
The right to exist as a free nation is one of the most fundamental political concepts.
If 🇺🇦 falls, sovereignty becomes negotiable everywhere.
That’s why we’re partnering up with @69thsb.bsky.social to provide a #NAFO 🛻 to the mortar battery of 153rd.
Join us: www.help99.co/patches/belg...
If 🇺🇦 falls, sovereignty becomes negotiable everywhere.
That’s why we’re partnering up with @69thsb.bsky.social to provide a #NAFO 🛻 to the mortar battery of 153rd.
Join us: www.help99.co/patches/belg...
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#Ukraine still needs your support and Florence is caring out fantastic work to help. This will be money well spent.
Another amazing photograph from @monicapelger.bsky.social that reveals the character of the wagtail.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Another amazing photograph from @monicapelger.bsky.social that reveals the character of the wagtail.
Reposted by Carol Kubicki
A very welcome ruling in Northern Ireland - supporting that basic right of freedom of/from religion. The state - and state schools - should not teach a religion as truth or push it on children.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
In a unanimous judgement the Supreme Court allowed an appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A very welcome ruling in Northern Ireland - supporting that basic right of freedom of/from religion. The state - and state schools - should not teach a religion as truth or push it on children.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
A hint at a bigger story ...
Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A hint at a bigger story ...
Hi @clareraynor.bsky.social and @mainebogboy.bsky.social. Hope you are well. I'm missing news from @strategywoman.bsky.social and chats over #warcoffee. It's sunny here and chilly. I'm off to make the most of the daylight for my fix of rays 😎
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hi @clareraynor.bsky.social and @mainebogboy.bsky.social. Hope you are well. I'm missing news from @strategywoman.bsky.social and chats over #warcoffee. It's sunny here and chilly. I'm off to make the most of the daylight for my fix of rays 😎
Reposted by Carol Kubicki
😟 Distraught by the images from Termopil and Kharkiv this morning.
Let’s push this fundraiser with @69thsb.bsky.social to equip the 153rd Brigade 🔗⬇️
Backing Ukraine is how we make sure the 21st century doesn’t slide back into the darkest times of the 20th!
Let’s push this fundraiser with @69thsb.bsky.social to equip the 153rd Brigade 🔗⬇️
Backing Ukraine is how we make sure the 21st century doesn’t slide back into the darkest times of the 20th!
The right to exist as a free nation is one of the most fundamental political concepts.
If 🇺🇦 falls, sovereignty becomes negotiable everywhere.
That’s why we’re partnering up with @69thsb.bsky.social to provide a #NAFO 🛻 to the mortar battery of 153rd.
Join us: www.help99.co/patches/belg...
If 🇺🇦 falls, sovereignty becomes negotiable everywhere.
That’s why we’re partnering up with @69thsb.bsky.social to provide a #NAFO 🛻 to the mortar battery of 153rd.
Join us: www.help99.co/patches/belg...
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
😟 Distraught by the images from Termopil and Kharkiv this morning.
Let’s push this fundraiser with @69thsb.bsky.social to equip the 153rd Brigade 🔗⬇️
Backing Ukraine is how we make sure the 21st century doesn’t slide back into the darkest times of the 20th!
Let’s push this fundraiser with @69thsb.bsky.social to equip the 153rd Brigade 🔗⬇️
Backing Ukraine is how we make sure the 21st century doesn’t slide back into the darkest times of the 20th!
Always my favourite place to stop as a child.
Stopped twice on motorway & had a look from this tower.
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Always my favourite place to stop as a child.
Perfect for your morning Geography and History lesson 😊
An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Perfect for your morning Geography and History lesson 😊
A gorgeous day to be by the sea at Heysham. The tide was going out and the seabirds were out finding food in the mud. We had our picnic watching them, squinting in the low sun.
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A gorgeous day to be by the sea at Heysham. The tide was going out and the seabirds were out finding food in the mud. We had our picnic watching them, squinting in the low sun.
Marvellous!
'The lines are busy' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Marvellous!
Stop and look at these empty chairs. Each one representing someone imprisoned or held by russia. #Ukraine 🇺🇦
Kyiv, Sophia Square today.
The annual “Empty Chairs” event –
in support of journalists, writers, and cultural figures
missing, imprisoned, or held captive
because of russia’s war against Ukraine.
I was there. I want the world to see.
The annual “Empty Chairs” event –
in support of journalists, writers, and cultural figures
missing, imprisoned, or held captive
because of russia’s war against Ukraine.
I was there. I want the world to see.
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Stop and look at these empty chairs. Each one representing someone imprisoned or held by russia. #Ukraine 🇺🇦
Mourning Nataliya Khodemchuk today 🇺🇦
During the November 14 drone strike on Kyiv, 73-year-old Nataliya Khodemchuk was killed. She was the widow of Valery Khodemchuk, the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster. A Russian Shahed drone hit her building, leaving her with severe burns. She died the next morning in hospital.
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Mourning Nataliya Khodemchuk today 🇺🇦
Yes! It feels particularly strong in spring and autumn. In winter the magic lingers quietly.
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yes! It feels particularly strong in spring and autumn. In winter the magic lingers quietly.
If you need some joy this morning, here are three gorgeous cats from Maud Lewis.
'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If you need some joy this morning, here are three gorgeous cats from Maud Lewis.
Perfect 😊
There once was a man who said "scone"
So that it rhymed with "gone",
But his wife said "scone"
To rhyme with "tone";
That marriage is over, it's done.
So that it rhymed with "gone",
But his wife said "scone"
To rhyme with "tone";
That marriage is over, it's done.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Perfect 😊
We've all had this coach trip experience 😊. I'm having flashbacks!
We lost one of the people off the coach so we had to leave them behind. We waited an hour, and informed the police. Hope you are feeling better.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We've all had this coach trip experience 😊. I'm having flashbacks!