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Gaye Murray
@tortymurray.bsky.social
European Scot. Located Alto Alantejo, Portugal. Prof career in psycho- therapeutic services. No more crofter, Isle of Skye.
Owned by Moça 🐕, a PWD.
Interests: thinking, learning, books!
Arts, past & present, r 🪟 to humanity's now.
Chronic pain.
Taking short time off 🦋 , going to say bye to unwanted malignant passenger - graded T1 M0 L0 - so 🤞 bit of baler twine will pull this auld critter back the gither.
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
If you have contacts/ family in Jamaica alert them to 👇 and remind to only engage with official Govt info.
( The shit show of OpenAI is only just getting started 🤐)
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Immensity is mind bogling. Be seeing more of these destructive beasts thx to climate change
(Being reported that staff at NOAH are working despite shut down to maintain so important info flow)
My thoughts are with the ppls of the Caribbean
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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It's now ivy flowers × 2 🤷
Big plus in this pesky slow walking is seeing new & beautiful on my way
(wldnt have really noticed before )
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Fgs stop taking pics. Can't you see am starving for my brekkie "
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When you peer over the wall of the
Health Centre car park for the first time.
( Was - I now know - part of the garden of Carmelite Convent, later a Sanitorium)
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The will to live - if only for the glow of a morning glory moment.
( All of 2 inches high in a crack in paving stones)
October 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Literal pic of my new shadow.
This wee guy - Portuguese Warren Hound/ Podengo Pequino - is at the gate 3 mornings now. Accompanies us on entire walk, then just leaves us back at the gate.
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Indian Pokeweed" - once valued for ink , now invasive - also toxic.
Not everything that seems beautiful is truly so.
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Tis the season of nuts...
A walnut escapes it's now shriveled overcoat
October 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Holm oak acorns. s
Soon to bring joy to wild boar (😐) & keepers of porcos preto - black pigs
October 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
An impressive harvest awaits.This family are assured an abundance of the good oil on their table, with plenty to spare.
( Not my galega 🫒 - pruning year)
October 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Older dog wises up.
"I'm not scampering up the wrong path, gonna wait.."
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The times they are so ugly yet beauty can thrive in the most challenging places.
(Pink evening primrose in a gutter by roadside - Castelo de Vide Portugal.)
October 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
After the rain
#StormGabrielle
October 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Snapped cause reflection - didn't spot Moça studiously ignoring water.
Moça the non swimming PWD.
October 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is quite magnificent, by Judge Young, responding directly to received message & including in his judgement.
🫡
September 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Pomegranates, like autumn baubles, hang from the boughs.
September 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Prickly pears - in an "abandoned" plot by the stream. Only 2 years ago was worked land. Good land.
It's an image of rural depopulation/ ageing community.
Rapidly being swallowed by vigorous bramble types.
September 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Retriever gang on Skye said hi to me today
September 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Could someone reassure me about this phrase of Starmer's.
"patriotic national renewal"
(credit BBC)
September 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Yuccas doing their autumn thing.
Autumn is about to do it's thing to yuccas .
🌬️🌀 ⛈️
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
There may still be blossoms, but autumn
Paper wasps nest in upturned plant saucer .
Those brilliant architects all gone away
September 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My snail vine ( vigna caracella) has begun to flower. Only a few blossoms so far but the scent..
Such a smart flower. Grows buds first who's only role is to drip nectar.
The fertilising ant colony 💪
September 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
And it's nighty night time.
Torty on the hibernation highway.
September 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM