Simes80
@simes80.bsky.social
Subsea engineer, mountain biker, hard rock fan.
Scotland has always been the dumping ground.
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Scotland has always been the dumping ground.
Sometimes they can be tricky to spot.
October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Sometimes they can be tricky to spot.
That’s spooky (pun not intended).
I just had this pop up on my Bluesky feed. Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of when heaps of Glaswegian kids went hunting the urban legend of the Gorbals Vampire with sharpened sticks.
I just had this pop up on my Bluesky feed. Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of when heaps of Glaswegian kids went hunting the urban legend of the Gorbals Vampire with sharpened sticks.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
That’s spooky (pun not intended).
I just had this pop up on my Bluesky feed. Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of when heaps of Glaswegian kids went hunting the urban legend of the Gorbals Vampire with sharpened sticks.
I just had this pop up on my Bluesky feed. Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of when heaps of Glaswegian kids went hunting the urban legend of the Gorbals Vampire with sharpened sticks.
I’m back in my happy place. Torridon. If I could package & sell the seratonin and dopamine boost this place gives me, I’d be a rich man.
But I reckon I’d just give it away to nice people instead.
But I reckon I’d just give it away to nice people instead.
September 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m back in my happy place. Torridon. If I could package & sell the seratonin and dopamine boost this place gives me, I’d be a rich man.
But I reckon I’d just give it away to nice people instead.
But I reckon I’d just give it away to nice people instead.
Beautiful Spring and Summer brings with it a downside. Come Autumn, when ferns, bracken, gorse, trees and bushes are soaking wet, negotiating narrow trails becomes akin to a fully -clothed, Russian Platza massage.
September 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Beautiful Spring and Summer brings with it a downside. Come Autumn, when ferns, bracken, gorse, trees and bushes are soaking wet, negotiating narrow trails becomes akin to a fully -clothed, Russian Platza massage.
I’ve been working in this building for about seven years. This is the first time I’ve noticed this.
Schindler’s Lift.
Schindler’s Lift.
August 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I’ve been working in this building for about seven years. This is the first time I’ve noticed this.
Schindler’s Lift.
Schindler’s Lift.
For your consideration, Iain M Banks’ lazy gun?
July 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For your consideration, Iain M Banks’ lazy gun?
I wonder what Rachel Reeves will say about it.
July 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I wonder what Rachel Reeves will say about it.
I wonder what her Prime Minister will say about it.
July 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I wonder what her Prime Minister will say about it.
I wonder what her fellow cabinet members will say.
July 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I wonder what her fellow cabinet members will say.
Liberal application of Smidge, midge net hat and lots of flapping arms, you’ll be grand.
Interesting to calculate how many midges it would take to drain the blood of an adult male though.
“It may be just a smear to you mate, but that’s life and death to some poor wretch!”
Interesting to calculate how many midges it would take to drain the blood of an adult male though.
“It may be just a smear to you mate, but that’s life and death to some poor wretch!”
July 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Liberal application of Smidge, midge net hat and lots of flapping arms, you’ll be grand.
Interesting to calculate how many midges it would take to drain the blood of an adult male though.
“It may be just a smear to you mate, but that’s life and death to some poor wretch!”
Interesting to calculate how many midges it would take to drain the blood of an adult male though.
“It may be just a smear to you mate, but that’s life and death to some poor wretch!”
Only according to this man. Who knows how accurate this is.
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Only according to this man. Who knows how accurate this is.
I just remember seeing this photo illustrating an interview with him in Guitar For The Practising Musician magazine (around 1990, about the time of A Little Ain’t Enough release) and thinking it was the coolest guitar I’d ever seen in my life.
June 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I just remember seeing this photo illustrating an interview with him in Guitar For The Practising Musician magazine (around 1990, about the time of A Little Ain’t Enough release) and thinking it was the coolest guitar I’d ever seen in my life.
The view as you approach the edge of the Sgor Gaoith summit is quite stunning.
May 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The view as you approach the edge of the Sgor Gaoith summit is quite stunning.
Took yesterday off and cycled the Sgor Gaoith loop. Low cloud at the start but sun broke through as I climbed the steep section before Carn Bàn Mòr, and from then on it was blue sky the whole way.
May 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Took yesterday off and cycled the Sgor Gaoith loop. Low cloud at the start but sun broke through as I climbed the steep section before Carn Bàn Mòr, and from then on it was blue sky the whole way.
They migrated briefly but then went back. Shame really, it’s a nice place here - no ads, no clickbait. Guess the number of followers was too big a prize to leave.
Not much of a consolation, but have a photo of the start of the Achnashellach descent in Torridon to brighten your day.
Not much of a consolation, but have a photo of the start of the Achnashellach descent in Torridon to brighten your day.
April 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They migrated briefly but then went back. Shame really, it’s a nice place here - no ads, no clickbait. Guess the number of followers was too big a prize to leave.
Not much of a consolation, but have a photo of the start of the Achnashellach descent in Torridon to brighten your day.
Not much of a consolation, but have a photo of the start of the Achnashellach descent in Torridon to brighten your day.
There may be arguments against this but none of them hold water.
April 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There may be arguments against this but none of them hold water.
The game of hide and seek was getting serious now.
March 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The game of hide and seek was getting serious now.