Skye Balou

Sharing this space with G-pa – 78 rpm (rocking past midnight). He’ll put a G in his posts. Images are a mix of his & mine over the years. Like me, he loves the movie #LocalHero & worries about climate change, so much he wrote a script for a climate follow-up. Open this post to read more in my reply.

Calm before the storm

Believe it or not, this place is, according to the Ordnance Survey map, called St. Illickswell Gug. I really can’t remember the last Gug I visited before this one. And who the hell was Illickswell? Though as he/she was presumably a Saint that’s probably an inappropriate way of asking.

The Celebrity Traitors might inadvertently demonstrate something more valuable than its makers intended: if you build a system that rewards people for betraying one another, you shouldn't be surprised when betrayal becomes the dominant behaviour. Society, hey. Civilisation, duh

Lanterdan pinnacle. Has become famous even though it’s low quality, tacky, worthless and dangerous. Surely that could not happen in the human sphere of activity? 🥺

Wonder why they left it there. 🤔 I mean, the stack of rock in the old quarry. Not Gull Rock, no-one will shift that in a hurry 😁

Tintagel, Arthur, Rainbow, all that stuff.

Plough, Big Dipper, Saucepan, whatever you call it, still there tonight.

Exe

Classic Cornish cove

Favourite riverside spot. But that river is low, with no serious rain forecast. 😳

A pale tussock moth (probably hungry) caterpillar

The Otter Estuary

One for you lovely Canucks. Cathédrale Saint-Vincent-de-Saragosse de Saint-Malo

I bet someone knows where this is.

One of my favourite harbours

Low tide at Pedn Vounder

The history of this coastline is fascinating.

G-pa has written a little piece about the dilemma between AI use & climate/nature action. I think it deserves some thought & maybe debate. I know he leaned on what you, @michaelemann.bsky.social wrote in New Climate Wars about deflection & individual virtue. I wonder if you think it's a fair take?

Mangersta, Isle of Lewis

Finale of a small festival

Found this amongst the images on my phone. Any artistic merit? Any idea what the hell it’s depicting? If it was ascribed to someone with a name it would probably be worth several million shillings.

Exhilarating

Postolonnec

Only 40 miles apart but what a different story.

11 metre (36 foot) tidal range today

Ironically, having £72 million will mean I can spend more money promoting the idea that I'm a man of the people and not just a rich, entitled tosser.

Big sister 🥰

Excellent piece, explained superbly 👏 🙏

Ripples. Moment of quiet contemplation today 11 September 2026 😔

About 600 miles apart, north/south.

For me, the granite coastlines are the best, whether it be Morar, Penwith, Scilly, Finisterre, Corsica, Seychelles. ❤️And doubtless many others I’ve never seen.

Definitely stayed out in the sun too long 😂 (4,000+ years ago) Where we’ll all end up if we don’t stop pushing out greenhouse gases into our fragile atmosphere.

Not my finest hour. Had to be abandoned. Could have been a great Dolly but all went a bit pear shaped 😢

Your name? Marina Your occupation? Sculptress Your choice of media? Granite Here’s one of my earlier pieces.

Gorgeous granite

Dogs are banned from this beach but if they do get onto it they get put in a box and turned to stone. 🐶

From the middle of the English Channel I get this. I think it’ll be the same on both sides now. And forever. 🍁 Let the trump moron try to build a wall across the middle of Lake ONTARIO 😡

This one was interesting

This one wasn’t quite so good