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Also known as Jenny. Grew up in Derby, lived in Manchester for 20 years, now in South West Scotland. Left of left. AFOL. LGBTQ+ ally. All humans are people. Once wrote something clever. Diarising COVID for far too long.
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Motorsports and mechanics across the way today - under a pendulous sky...

#dumfriesandgalloway
#newtonstewart
View over a stone wall into fields. The nearest field is all visible. It has grass and some small hills and ruts. A track has been made by repeated car tyres. On the track, a small family car racing. After the end of the track, a group of people and vehicles including low loader 'recovery' vehicles, entrant cars and other vehicles. The sky has huge ominous layers of grey cloud. It looks pendulous.
August 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Photo of a poster held by an individual at a protest. It reads "First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that."
August 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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England women's team won the Euro's and the 9nyear old girl next door came round with celebratory cakes, and that's all I need right now... 😃
Close up.inage of two plain cupcakes
July 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Hands up if you're wearing someone else's suit...

#bbcsport
#womensfootball
#womenseuros2025
Photo of the telly, showing the bottom half of the 3 female commentators. The person far left is wearing a blue trouser and jacket suit, which is at least 4 inches too long, so long in fact that she keeps standing on her own trousers. In the middle screen a silver bowl shaped table, and 2 other commentators wearing fitting trousers.
July 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Happy Summer Solstice to all who celebrate. 11.10pm and normal (not night time) photography. #nofilter or technology, it's just that light.

#dumfriesandgalloway
#Scotland
Widesceen view over fields with blue sky above. A small scattering of clouds on the horizon, but mostly clear pale blue night time sky on the longest day of the year.
June 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The midnight sky over Galloway, South West Scotland tonight. Almost midsummer 😊

#Scotland
#Galloway
#dumfriesandgalloway
#midnight
View over dark fields in shades of black, above them on the horizon a large swathe of bright light with oranges and fluffy white clouds reflecting the midnight sun below. Further into the sky the clouds are thicker, in shades of blue, darkening to almost black at the top, with a patch of lighter blue clouds, which seem much closer in the middle.
June 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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My partner cut his hair earlier and it's obviously taken years off him... also - live 10pm photo. We aren't bothering with nighttime just now.
#Scotland
Reverse view of man standing on a stone wall overlooking green fields. In the distance and orange and golden sunset and hills. The sky is grey - because it's 10pm and slightly dark, but still light enough it's like a cloudy day. To the left of the photo you can see the corner of our glass wondowed outhouse summerhouse thingie.
June 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Well, there may be #northernlights tonight, but we won't be seeing them. We've just entered a month of twilight being the darkest it gets... 11.45pm...it's very blue! #Galloway #Scotland
View of a huge nighttime twilight sky. Massive clouds are in shadow and look black, with a sky behind in various shades of blue. View of a huge nighttime twilight sky. Massive clouds are in shadow and look black, with a sky behind in various shades of blue. Middle left above the horizon, you can see through the gaps in the clouds the remains of the sunlight from the day, with pale blues in the sky and a patch that looks almost white glowing in the far, far distance.
June 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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We really could have done with a bit more rain over the past few days... gorgeous dusk though.
#itwasallyellow
#yellow
#Galloway
#Scotland
View over fields with newly cut grass towards a golden yellow sunset and sky. 2 fairly large white clouds are in the sky, which is bluer the higher you go. The short grass in the fields is pure yellow, both reflecting the sunset and yellow sky, and because it's very dry and straw-like.
May 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Northern Lights are here again...

#Scotland
#dumfriesandgalloway
#Galloway
#aurora
Nighttime view over black fields of grass to the horizon, which has a layer of yellowy green at the bottom and pink above, with vertical rays of brighter light
May 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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It looks like the whole world is sleeping under one giant crisp cotton bedsheet tonight...
View over fields as it goes dark at dusk, with a great big orange and blue sky. The sky has very few slightly wavy horizontal lines, giving the illusion of hiding under a crisp cotton bedsheet
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Well, it is the Northern Lights, but not the massively impressive kind... more of a "do you see any glow on the horizon?" - although the purple is very pretty 😄
Night time view over fields, with silhouette trees in the distance on top of hills. The sky has a green glow on the horizon, and above it a faint red colour. Stars are visible. Night time view over fields, with trees in silhouette in the right hand distance. The sky has a green glow along the horizon, with a purple shade above. Stars are visible.
May 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Spectacular sky tonight... 😃

#dumfriesandgalloway
#Galloway
#Scotland
#skyscape
#clouds
View over green grassy fields towards the Galloway Hills in the distance and loads of blue sky full of fluffy pure white clouds that look like dotted lines heading into a point in the middle
May 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Happy Easter everyone!
Apparently at 15 and 16 you still need an Easter Egg Hunt... 😄

By crikey it is a gorgeous day!!
My 2 teenage boys standing behind a table with wispy, curious creations and miniature chocolate eggs. The boy on the right holds the cat. Behind them a view over green fields towards hills in the far distance, with a bright blue sky and fluffy white clouds above.
April 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Caught the Northern Lights again from South West Scotland 😁

A brief display, but so worth the freezing cold hands 😀
The Norhern Lights as seen from South West Scotland - pink vertical lines to the left, turning to orange to the right The Northern Lights from South West Scotland, green at the left, then pumk and orange towards the right, with a glow over the hills
April 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered...
Photograph of a raven sitting on my stone garden wall facing right. He is a fully black bird, almost twice the size of a pigeon and really quite ominous. Behind him a green grassy field with a grassed hill 200m away.
March 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Sums it up.

#childrenofgaza
#wearewatchinggenocide
#drkiranrahim
#chrishedges
drkiranrahim "You will grow up, if you grow up at all, knowing you were born in an age when human rights had been abolished." - Chris Hedges, Letter to the Children of Gaza We have failed the children of Gaza. The world has watched their suffering through screens, scrolling past their deaths as if they were statistics, too distant, too inconvenient to grieve. Their lives have been weighed and found unworthy by those who decide whose deaths deserve outrage, whose faces make headlines, whose childhoods are mourned. The world has watched in silence as their tiny bodies were pulled from beneath the rubble, as they were burned alive in their homes, as they were shredded in pieces and carried in plastic bags and as they were wrapped in body bags because there were no shrouds left to bury them. We saw it all. And still, the world made excuses. They called it collateral damage. They accused grieving parents of staging their children's deaths. They looked at lifeless, dust-covered faces and refused to believe what their own eyes saw. These children were not granted innocence. They were not given the privilege of childhood. Instead, they were dehumanised, their lives weighed against politics, their suffering dismissed because they were born in the wrong place, to the wrong people, with the wrong skin. Would the world have wept if they were white? Would their names have been remembered, their futures fiercely defended? Instead, they are buried in mass graves, their laughter silenced, their dreams shattered beneath the rubble of apathy. The world barely blinked as they were pulled from the wreckage, wrapped in bloodied sheets, laid to rest in graves too small. History will remember this. It will remember the silence, the complicity, the ease with which the world scrolled past such horrors. History will ask what we did when Gaza burned. And too many will have to answer: We looked away
March 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Gorgeous sunset today, so peaceful and calm - also cold and I'm told stinking of cow manure. Thankfully I can't smell that and nor can you, so we can just enjoy the view... ahhhh...

#Scotland
#dumfriesandgalloway
#Wigtown
#sunset
View over green grassy fields towards trees and hedgerows in the distance. The sky is pale blue with a little yellow fron the setting sun, and several grey/white fluffy clouds dotted around. Peace.
March 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Oh what a beautiful day... with almost perfect clouds.

Naturally I've spent the entire day working in the loft hahaha 😃 Still colder than it looks.

#dumfriesandgalloway
#Scotland
#cumulus
View over my stone wall and green grassy fields looking towards the Galloway Hills in the far distance. The sky is bright blue with tons of fluffy cumulus clouds, it looks cartoonist and pretty surreal, perfect in many ways.
March 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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No Northern Lights for us so far tonight, but it's so bright you could practically read a book - and I got a cracking photo of Orion!

#Orion
#smartphoneastronomy
#dumfriesandgalloway
#starrystarrynight
A smartphone photo of the sky at 9pm 12th March 2025. The sky looks bright and blue, and is full of stars. To the bottom left is the constellation of Orion, clearly visible.
March 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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It's been a cold day today, there was some snow on the hills earlier, but the glorious sunshine melted that away into a beautiful clear evening with an incredibly early moonrise. It'll be a bright night tonight. Still cold mind!

#dumfriesandgalloway
#Scotland
#goodevening
#themoon
View over green grassy fields and some very still water of the River Cree, to the hills beyond. In the cold blue sky a single fluffy cloud to the left, and a full moon in white to the right
March 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Oh what a beautiful morning... deceptively cold though... brrr
Good morning kind people of the bluesky!

#dumfriesandgalloway
#Scotland
#goodmorning
View over my stone wall looking across bright green grassy fields towards hills in the background. The sky is pure blue with not a cloud in sight.
March 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Sometimes it's hard to believe you're actually awake and really reading what you think you're reading...
Polish Minister explains Poland pay $50m a year for Starlink for Ukraine, in response to Musk saying Ukraine's front line would collapse if he turned it off. Musk then responded with "Be quiet, small man. You pay a fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink." Marco Rubio responds to the Polish Minister Sikorski saying Poland pay $50 million a year for Starlink for Ukraine, with "Just making things up. No-one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink. And say thank you because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now."
March 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Late in the day, but it was a misty one here today. I took this earlier and it didn't clear, raining now, so no stars sadly... still beautiful... 😁

#dumfriesandgalloway
##creevalley
View over fields towards a huge sky full of a massive grey cloud. It is clearly it is raining over most.of the visible world.
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I'm honestly mortified by Trump right now. We are all but one person, and my comfort zone is very small and warm, but rightly or wrongly I have stepped out of it.
Screenshot of an email reply I just sent. Text reads: Thanks for your email. I have looked up your products and while I believe they are good for you, your main ingredient has a lot of unsubstantiated claims, and I'm not keen on confusing my audience. In honesty I'm also not very happy promoting anything that increases US trade right now. Sorry. Please don't take it personally - I have no idea how you voted or what your own views are, but once you have a president who doesn't attempt to bully the world into bending the knee to him, threatening WW3, trade tariffs and genocide to get whatever he wants, please feel free to get back to me. Jenny www.thebrickcastle.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM