Vicky Stonebridge
@vikstonebridge.bsky.social
Balnacra Pottery. Comics. Croft. The Lochcarron Treehouse. Community. They/them enby. ND. Community resilience. Occasional Pict. 🇵🇸🏴 www.balnacra.com
Say hello to these beautiful new friends. Mom and calf will be staying with us on the croft and hill grazings for the summer. They're Shetland Cows, a bonny breed as you can see. 🌱☘️🌸🌼🌿🐄🌿☘️🐄🌱🌼
What's my 5 year #croft business plan? cuddle Cows and sing songs to them.
What's my 5 year #croft business plan? cuddle Cows and sing songs to them.
June 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Say hello to these beautiful new friends. Mom and calf will be staying with us on the croft and hill grazings for the summer. They're Shetland Cows, a bonny breed as you can see. 🌱☘️🌸🌼🌿🐄🌿☘️🐄🌱🌼
What's my 5 year #croft business plan? cuddle Cows and sing songs to them.
What's my 5 year #croft business plan? cuddle Cows and sing songs to them.
May 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Sorry I forgot to post anything here. Because. Here's some wip.
May 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sorry I forgot to post anything here. Because. Here's some wip.
This business stands with trans people, human rights are for everyone, and can never be at the expense of any other group of people. We believe that this week's supreme court ruling sets equality rights back decades for men, women, cis, & trans. This is a safe space for all people. Thankyou. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
April 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This business stands with trans people, human rights are for everyone, and can never be at the expense of any other group of people. We believe that this week's supreme court ruling sets equality rights back decades for men, women, cis, & trans. This is a safe space for all people. Thankyou. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Sorry don't know how to add captions on blue-sky. It's basically me, apologising for not posting much 'content', and pointing out stuff in the studio in my annoying voice. Blah blah.
April 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Sorry don't know how to add captions on blue-sky. It's basically me, apologising for not posting much 'content', and pointing out stuff in the studio in my annoying voice. Blah blah.
Here's my AI free action figure me thingy.
Context, Folks are using AI slop to make their own action figure images, so real humans and human artists are countering this with human made versions. This is mine.
#starterpacknoai #starterpack #notoai #madebyahuman #madebyme
Context, Folks are using AI slop to make their own action figure images, so real humans and human artists are countering this with human made versions. This is mine.
#starterpacknoai #starterpack #notoai #madebyahuman #madebyme
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Here's my AI free action figure me thingy.
Context, Folks are using AI slop to make their own action figure images, so real humans and human artists are countering this with human made versions. This is mine.
#starterpacknoai #starterpack #notoai #madebyahuman #madebyme
Context, Folks are using AI slop to make their own action figure images, so real humans and human artists are countering this with human made versions. This is mine.
#starterpacknoai #starterpack #notoai #madebyahuman #madebyme
That's us OPEN for the season. Short hours to start with, extending as more people arrive. Tuesday to Friday, 11 to 3. ( see IG for Captions on video i don't know how to do it on b'sky).
March 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
That's us OPEN for the season. Short hours to start with, extending as more people arrive. Tuesday to Friday, 11 to 3. ( see IG for Captions on video i don't know how to do it on b'sky).
Reposted by Vicky Stonebridge
‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week, when Israeli air strikes broke the fragile two-month ceasefire which had brought some respite to Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week
About a third of all casualties admitted to Nasser hospital were under 14, as Israeli airstrikes broke fragile ceasefire
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week, when Israeli air strikes broke the fragile two-month ceasefire which had brought some respite to Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Reposted by Vicky Stonebridge
It's in the linked article...
Here's the link:
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Here's the link:
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
Study confirms Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's in the linked article...
Here's the link:
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Here's the link:
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gorgeous to come home to spring sunshine, and a Happy flock.
March 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Gorgeous to come home to spring sunshine, and a Happy flock.
Missed our home landscape while we were away, being witness to changing seasons and these hills is in my blood since I arrived here in childhood. We call these snows the lambing snows.
March 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Missed our home landscape while we were away, being witness to changing seasons and these hills is in my blood since I arrived here in childhood. We call these snows the lambing snows.
Finally home after an eventful trip. More pix to follow. So glad to be back with these lads. Grateful to our lovely dog sitters.
March 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Finally home after an eventful trip. More pix to follow. So glad to be back with these lads. Grateful to our lovely dog sitters.
A victorious croft day. Finally fired up the 'new' rotavator. Brutal on the steep slopes. Kept getting fangled with brambles & bracken, It kept running away when it was supposed to stop! But the soil is lovely, & all the dead bracken is now mulched in.
#rotavator #crofting #newcrofter #growingstuff
#rotavator #crofting #newcrofter #growingstuff
February 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A victorious croft day. Finally fired up the 'new' rotavator. Brutal on the steep slopes. Kept getting fangled with brambles & bracken, It kept running away when it was supposed to stop! But the soil is lovely, & all the dead bracken is now mulched in.
#rotavator #crofting #newcrofter #growingstuff
#rotavator #crofting #newcrofter #growingstuff
sneaky reveal of this project here, it's a gift, but the recipients aren't on b'sky. I started quilting last year & it's addictive hyperfixation of the moment. All upcycled scraps. Hopefully I'll have time to make ourselves one before the hyper fixation shuts down. #adhd #quilting #patchwork
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
sneaky reveal of this project here, it's a gift, but the recipients aren't on b'sky. I started quilting last year & it's addictive hyperfixation of the moment. All upcycled scraps. Hopefully I'll have time to make ourselves one before the hyper fixation shuts down. #adhd #quilting #patchwork
A cracking day. Went exploring the grazings above the croft towards "Black Mares Rock", some curious old walls which curved right up into the hill, and what I'm pretty sure was a crude old man-made shelter under a crag. Great views and not too boggy as it was still icy up there.
February 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A cracking day. Went exploring the grazings above the croft towards "Black Mares Rock", some curious old walls which curved right up into the hill, and what I'm pretty sure was a crude old man-made shelter under a crag. Great views and not too boggy as it was still icy up there.
Reposted by Vicky Stonebridge
Thankyou to everyone who supported us this week.
...for the cards, messages, and those who shared stories about my Dads life. We are grateful to all who attended his funeral & helped out.
While it's been a sad and difficult time, it has been lovely to spend time with family and all come together❤️
...for the cards, messages, and those who shared stories about my Dads life. We are grateful to all who attended his funeral & helped out.
While it's been a sad and difficult time, it has been lovely to spend time with family and all come together❤️
February 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thankyou to everyone who supported us this week.
...for the cards, messages, and those who shared stories about my Dads life. We are grateful to all who attended his funeral & helped out.
While it's been a sad and difficult time, it has been lovely to spend time with family and all come together❤️
...for the cards, messages, and those who shared stories about my Dads life. We are grateful to all who attended his funeral & helped out.
While it's been a sad and difficult time, it has been lovely to spend time with family and all come together❤️
So good to see some sunshine after a long winter. Much needed at the moment too. My Dad climbed this hill 297 times. I think 2 of those times I was there. One Easter Sunday with my siblings and once with my eldest when they were around 13yrs. He asked to be buried facing it, which we'll do.
February 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So good to see some sunshine after a long winter. Much needed at the moment too. My Dad climbed this hill 297 times. I think 2 of those times I was there. One Easter Sunday with my siblings and once with my eldest when they were around 13yrs. He asked to be buried facing it, which we'll do.
This has been a long, exhausting 2 days, no time to grieve with a funeral to organise. Grateful for all the messages and reaching out people are doing. Grateful to be able to sit with sibs & SIL to work through Dad's life story today. Hard to summarise such a full life.
February 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This has been a long, exhausting 2 days, no time to grieve with a funeral to organise. Grateful for all the messages and reaching out people are doing. Grateful to be able to sit with sibs & SIL to work through Dad's life story today. Hard to summarise such a full life.
My father passed in the early hours of Monday after living with dementia for sometime. He lived a full life despite early obstacles, climbed every hill in Scotland, our local hill 297 times! He worked on many engineering projects "climbed it!" "built it!". His boyish humour remained until the last.
February 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My father passed in the early hours of Monday after living with dementia for sometime. He lived a full life despite early obstacles, climbed every hill in Scotland, our local hill 297 times! He worked on many engineering projects "climbed it!" "built it!". His boyish humour remained until the last.
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‘Israeli forces are holding 112 Palestinian children in administrative detention as of December 31, according to information shared by the Israel Prison Service. This number is an all-time high since DCIP began monitoring child administrative detainees in 2008.’ www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_...
Palestinian child administrative detainees reach all-time high
Israeli forces are detaining more Palestinian children without charge than ever before.
www.dci-palestine.org
January 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
‘Israeli forces are holding 112 Palestinian children in administrative detention as of December 31, according to information shared by the Israel Prison Service. This number is an all-time high since DCIP began monitoring child administrative detainees in 2008.’ www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_...
Reposted by Vicky Stonebridge
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Relationships with old places need work & intentionality.Yesterday working the croft, each dig with a spade connected with ground worked for generations.Today spring cleaning the studio,200+ yr old blacksmiths,turning up rusty tools, soot from the forge. It's an honour the ghosts won't let me forget
January 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Relationships with old places need work & intentionality.Yesterday working the croft, each dig with a spade connected with ground worked for generations.Today spring cleaning the studio,200+ yr old blacksmiths,turning up rusty tools, soot from the forge. It's an honour the ghosts won't let me forget
Tree planting mission continues on croft.Ideally I'dve got fencing first then wouldn't have had to work so hard carrying tubes & stakes uphill, but fencers are elusive. native woodland going on top slope,orchard etc at bottom.some magnificent grandmother trees on site,but deer eat anything smaller
January 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Tree planting mission continues on croft.Ideally I'dve got fencing first then wouldn't have had to work so hard carrying tubes & stakes uphill, but fencers are elusive. native woodland going on top slope,orchard etc at bottom.some magnificent grandmother trees on site,but deer eat anything smaller