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🇬🇧🇪🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Life can be like trying to open the wrong end of a bin bag sometimes but, at least you've got a bag and you're trying to open it. Socrates (maybe mistranslated)

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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 10h
It was v noisy with spray everywhere. There were metail wires as groups can go and climb up there!
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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home
Tom Ford spring 2027 runway look
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The house Mackintosh designed in Helensburgh. Being renovated so can actually walk over the roof! Love Mackintosh design.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some sights on our travels today.
Loch Lomond with a few trees making a swim for it under darkening evening skyPainted face on a tree trunk.  Long eye lashes and red lips (the painting,  not me)Dramatic gorge hills staying guard over blue Loch Leven under blue sky with a few wispy clouds,  which obviously couldn't be bothered to form into larger ones. Gray Mares waterfall.  Spray. Rocks.  Trees. If you look closely,  wires as they allow tours to climb up the falls.  Why would anyone want to though?
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But didn't he win the war with Iran? Several times in fact?
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pitch to BBC: "I have an idea for a new TV soap. We've had Coronation Street but what about a new spin off...."
Road sign saying Corrie Road infront of a street fence
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exactly! My grumble is pianos at train stations when anyone gets on and hammers away! You should have to prove you can play at grade 7 or something before they let you play.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Loch
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I assume so. Maybe for catching the rare land based lobster!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Glen Coe at moment. You been up here?
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hotel breakfast view
Scottish hills behind river. Lots of trees.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I only spoke to staff cos son wouldn't let me go and speak to the bloke directly. Think he's already embarrassed that I asked for a room change at last hotel cos of humming from boiler beneath our room.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just had something similar over breakfast. Bloke playing badly out of tune piano in other room. Spoke to staff cos couldn't put up with it any longer. Nor could they i think.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As you like your history, there's a lot to see! Im going to buy a book on Scottish history.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What I'd not seen before was, apart from bits of grass lower down, there really was nothing on it. Just v dark stone. That's it.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Glenfinan: the Harry Potter viaduct. And the monument to the Bonny Prince Charlie uprising, which started here, and got as far as Derby but then finished off at Culloden.
Monument with Scottish soldier on top of the towerGlenfinan. Bonny prince Charlie raised his standard here in 1745 and marched on England. That viaduct.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Right. Prattle on about minimum state interference in people's lives, and then operate on this level.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seen this a lot on our travels. Is it a biker thing?
Back of a road sign covered in stickers
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To be fair, they probably look better in the sun but, it's worth going just to get close to a mountain that looks all black rock.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I packed for road trip to Scotland with son, I had to pack my stuff plus 50%. This is because he does what he always does: packs one pair of shorts and one pair of jeans (along with t shirts etc).
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had to balance, it getting blown down the hill another metre vs me pinning it triumphantly to the ground and waiting for applause.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On walk, Japanese woman lost her hat when wind blew it off. I was just about to stab it with my hiking pole when thought she might not be happy to have an air vent hole added to it.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Skye today.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hopefully, not this one!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know! I loath the trumps!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Had a dream Melania ran away with me. Still dreaming, I told others about what she had done in my dream. Waking, I was disturbed on so many levels.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are lots of villages on Skye called the same name.
Square white sign saying Passing Place with trees and shrubs behind
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dramatic Skye sky
Bubbling orange and grey to v dark grey could catching last of today's rays
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tempted to ask for this just to see what it looked like: Toast on scrambled egg.
Menu for café listing prices
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What I liked about them was their affable confidence. They'd happily chat, even if just briefly. One group in car were wary of the narrow road near Ben Nevis and their GPS. Told them they had nothing to worry about so long as braked before cliff edge. They were jokey.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excellent! I don't know if its normally like this or it's a seasonal time of year thing. Like birds migrating for the winter!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw a post box decorated in the stuff.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ohh. Where abouts? Talked briefly to different ones today when out walking.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There seems to be more Americans in Scotland than Scottish people.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Steall Falls near Ben Nevis
Steall Falls crashing down hill sideBen nevis range of hills (i think)
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I like that!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's a folly!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Morning you. Sounds like a good night!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Especially on All Hallows Eve...
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I bet the local kids dare each other to go into the grounds and look through windows etc
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I liked this sign today.
Sign on wooden gate to rear of house states No parking. Not even for 2 minutes.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oban which looks over towards Mull in the far distance.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They took memory cards and sold us cloud storage. They took CDs and DVDs and sold us streaming. They took software you bought once and turned it into a monthly subscription. Corporate America figured out the real money wasn’t in selling you something. It was making sure you NEVER actually own it.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In a dinosaur suit
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These are like otter puns.
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I like that. I'm tempted!
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Been invited to a party tonight. Invite says 'Dress to impress" This makes me nervous with my wardrobe. I'll just have to say I read it as 'Dress to depress.'
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yikes. No Airbnb type places there?
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WhatsApp. When you see 'X is typing' and it goes on for minutes and then the message comes through as "Ok".
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John @emptyjamjar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Doesn't Saruman have one of these too?"
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