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Hels Babs
@hels8.bsky.social
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Inverness Dweller
Nature Lover
Bird Liker
Childless cat lady 😻
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Woke up early to witness the pink footed geese wake up and fly off for their breakfast! There were 1000s of the noisy honkers. A glorious nature spectacle! 💚🪿🪿🪿. AND a rainbow cloud, what the...! 🌈🌈☁️
#goose #findhorn #nature #rocks
The sun is rising in the background, over an expanse of grass next to an estuary. A woman wearing a bobble hat is stood with binoculars to her eyes, looking out over the water to see birds and geese Woman in bobble hat walking, above her a cloud with a rainbow through it
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Best lunchtime view? Getting away from the annoying office, taken myself off for a bench sit by the River Ness 💚🍂🍁
#autumn #rivers #Highlands #Scotland
View over a wide, calm river. In the background trees turning autumn colours of burgundy, yellow, some are still green. Blue sky and fluffy white clouds
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I fed Lenker some delicious tuna, and she was so happy she is literally purring out loud in this photo. Look at the Face Of Contentment 😻💘
#cats #catsofbluesky #foodheaven
Black and white cat sat on a mat (no, really) looking at camera with dopey look on her face because she ate yummy food. Eyes half closed with delight
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A lovely Beach Cat I met in Paros, Greece 🇬🇷. I wanted to take him home 💞
#Caturday #blueskycats #beachcats
A ginger cat sat on a beach, in the background the sun is setting over hills, reflected onto the sea.
September 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Archeology cat! 😻
Spotted cooking off in the archaeological museum in Paros, Greece 🇬🇷
#cats #greekcats #archaeology
Photo of a ginger and white cat inside an ancient Greek pot, trying to stay cool from the sun. Surrounded by other remnants of white stone carvings from...5/600BC?!!
September 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Lenker slept in with me this morning 🌄 😻
#blueskycats #caturday
Smol black and white cat lying ontop of white duvet cover. Looking very comfortable and relaxed.
September 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Northern Scotland baby! What a beautiful Sunday at The Gut (strange name for such a lovely place lol) 💙
#Scotland #culbinforest #moraycoast #sun #sea #sand
Photo of white sandy beach and sea next to it, stretching out into the distance. There is blue sky and fluffy white clouds in the sky
August 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Spotted in Dundee. An artist paints over chewing gum splodges on the pavement. West End Dundee 💘🌈
#Dundee #Scotland #pavementart
Photo of small, round chewing gum splodge on a grey pavement. It has been painted like a flower, pink in the middle, blue on the outer ring ans a yellow border. My trainer in the shot for scale!
August 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Friendly *boop* to a neighbourhood cat walking home this evening. What a cutie. She frequents lounging around our pond from time to time 😍💘😻
#cats #are #nice #and #boopable
Photo of a small, fluffy all white cat about to be booped on the noise by a finger, my finger
August 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Sunday packed lunch by a lochan in the Highlands (Littlemill, by Farr) then back home in time for Liverpool FC friendly. 👌
#Sundays #Scotland #Highlands
View over a lochan, green trees all around, blue sky and fluffy white clouds. In the background a small hill and fishing hut
July 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The bees favourite 🐝. Freshly opened poppy from the garden this morning 🌄 ❣️
#poppies #flowers #bees
A small red poppy freshly opened in the centre of photo. It's surrounded by pink and white flowers, with green grass in the background
July 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The wonderful Hotspur Press building in Manchester has burnt to the ground 🖤. Here it is in its majesty in 2017. Such an awesome building, what a loss (and indeed it was just left to rot by people wanting to 'develop' it)
#Manchester #hotspurpress
A large red brick mill in the foreground. Looming over it are shiny white high rise buildings. Old and new Manchester
June 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Lesser Spearwort and Lenker by my pond today for #wildflowerhour and #aquaticplants 😻👌!!
Black and white cat lying next to a pond, in the sun. In the pond is an aquatic plant with yellow flowers
June 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social 's *excellent* Dopplelganger and struck but how the Other Naomi's descent into authoritarian/far right conspiracy land is the same as Liz Truss?! Click into photo for handy maths equation 😄👌
#doppelganger #liztruss #authoritarians
Photo of book quoting a maths equation for people turning to the authoritarian right: Narciss(Grandiosity)+ Social media addiction + Midlife crisis ÷ Public shaming = Right-wing meltdown!
June 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Happy to note he is pre-blocked!! May he find it very hard to 'engage in debates' here due to nobody listening
June 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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I swam in Loch Ness this morning whilst Good Boy Toby was my lifeguard. It wasn't that cold, amazing!
#lochness #Scotland #swimming
A woman in a red long sleeved swim suit is wading into a loch, she is up to her waist in the water. In the foreground is a pebble beach with a black dog looking out onto the swimmer
June 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Photo of a gravel path, in the centre is a very small bright red beastie - a red spider mite
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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A woman watering a pale blue cat sitting close to gravel path, taking a photo of a beastie on the floor to try and identify it
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Aird Mhòr and the Falls of Balgy walk in Torridon this weekend. It was stunning! We saw crossbills and beasties I've never seen before (red spider mite in 2nd photo!). Thanks once again to @walkhighlands.co.uk for the incredible walk info 💚🌸
#scottishhighlands #walking #beasts #birds
View from a narrow path with ferns on either side and a view in the distance of a munro (I do not know the name!). Blue sky and fluffy white clouds
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Happy #caturday from Lenker ❣️! She's giving propping up the bar vibes 🍻😄
#catsofbluesky
Photo of black and white cat, lying on the top of a flight of stairs with her arms propped up like she is ordering a drink at a bar lol
May 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Could I BE any more happy?! Best start to the morning, meeting the pod of bottleneck dolphins at Chanonry Point. They showed up in force and hung around snacking on salmon for ages 🐬🥰💚
#dolphins #Scotland #highlands #rosemarkie #sea #birds
Photo of blonde white woman smiling into the camera, in the background a pebbly beach and sea beyond. A group of people with cameras have their backs to the photo, they are taking pictures of the dolphins in the sea. No dolphins in this photo- was not quick enough!
May 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Big Burn Walk near Golspie yesterday. What a lush surprise it was 💚☘️✨️
#walking #Scotland #burns #nature
A pool of water, part of the burn flowing downstream. On either side are rocks, the banks of the burn are covered in moss, ferns, grasses, trees. A tranquil scene
May 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Lovely heath-spotted orchid (I think. Plantnet tells me so!) seen on a walk at Portmahomack 💚🌸
#wildflowerhour
#Scotland
#hiking
#Portmahomack
Photo of small pale pink orchid flowers, there are dots of dark pink throughout. They are small against green grass, there are yellow gorse flowers in the background
May 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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So good.
Ben Jennings @ The Guardian
#Trump #gifts #grifts #corruption
Cartoon drawing showing a caricatured Trump walking up to unknown Saudi or Quatari princes who have their back to us . Trump has a red bow tied in the middle of his waste. The Princes say - 'what a gift!'
May 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Bogbean blooming in my pond! 💚🎉
#springtime
#bigbean
#flowers
#nature
Photo of a small pond plant with green leaves and 4 small white flowers in bloom reaching up to the sky. In a pond with small pebbles in the background
May 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM