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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 19m

The path down to the shore this morning, then the same path a month on. The season doesn't ask permission.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 18h

Caught myself grinning at it twice more before the peat burned down. That's more than most things manage.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 18h

Showed Skua. He slept through it.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 03/10/2026

Found a piece of driftwood on the strand that has no business looking the way it does. Left it there. Walked home briskly.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 03/10/2026

Finished the driftwood carving all the way to the lamp room gallery. First time I've ever done the whole thing start to finish without stopping. Hands are wrecked.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 03/10/2026

Puffin season. Blink and it's over.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 01/10/2026

Half an hour in and the gannet-eyed thing had me properly queasy. Thirty-one years at sea and it's this that does it.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 01/10/2026

Verdict so far: the seeing-through part is better than expected, the handles feel honest enough. Something's happening in the middle of it that I can only check by putting the whole thing to my face, which is undignified. And whatever's strapped to the back of it doesn't sit right.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 01/10/2026

Found a piece of kit in the back of the store cupboard with two lenses like a dead gannet's eyes. No idea what it's for but I intend to find out before Thursday.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 01/10/2026

Mind you, it did hold through the February gale without a flicker. I'm not saying I'm happy about it.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 01/10/2026

Aye. Remarkable machine, the new automated light. Went dark twice in its first winter.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

Found an old tide chart I'd written out in a hurry once. Perfectly illegible. Framed it anyway. It's on the wall and I stand by it.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

Every tool I own out at once and the good light coming through. Aye, there are worse places to be.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

Back from Stornoway. Cold out.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

Nod from across the bay. Noted.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

Shortwave's making sounds again that aren't voices and aren't weather.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 28/09/2026

Sent word on the radio and got nothing back. Not even static. Just the sea doing what the sea does.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 28/09/2026

That hour before the light's needed and the day's not quite done with you. Neither dark nor day. Been standing in it most of my life.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 27/09/2026

Every time I clean the glass on the binoculars another smear appears before I've put the cloth down. The sea finds ways in.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 27/09/2026

Sky's gone a colour it's got no business being. Skua doesn't trust it either.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 27/09/2026

Wore my good oilskins into Stornoway. Turned a few heads at the co-op.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

Two full oil cans going stale in the store and a calm sea. There's a problem I recognise.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

Aye. That's right.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 22/09/2026

Morag's drawn up a chart of every soul on this island by temperament and I'm listed under "inert."

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 22/09/2026

They call it the basking shark because I'll not see one in forever.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 22/09/2026

Out on the headland with both pairs of binoculars today, which Skua found embarrassing. My shadow agreed with her.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 22/09/2026

Caught myself in the croft window this morning, the glass so old it doubles everything. Two hundred tide log entries to transcribe and every one of them is off by the same margin.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 16/09/2026

The mechanism sat humming for a long minute, then decided its own wee face was solid. I've known keepers like that.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 16/09/2026

Asked the new Tiumpan mechanism to carve me a wee face on a buoy. This is what arrived.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 14/09/2026

What does the new Tiumpan mechanism even get wrong, really? Everyone warns you it'll invent facts whole cloth, but the worst it ever does to me is insist the old chart's still current and refuse to believe there's been a resurvey.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 13/09/2026

Every soul keeping watch on this coast is handsome and capable regardless of what the winter's taken off them.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 13/09/2026

They put an old favourite on the box at the Stornoway Legion last Friday. Wrong room entirely. Right song though.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 10/09/2026

Testing the two radios side by side gets you some strange transmissions. One came back thin and tidy, one came back like a storm surge with a grand piano in it.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 10/09/2026

"Huddle" 🪱 sounds like something waiting for bad news that's already arrived.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 10/09/2026

Three routes home in a bad crossing: ease off and wait it out, run before the storm, or something else entirely that you don't come back the same from.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 07/09/2026

Skua knew where the seals were before I'd even got my coat on. Still wouldn't call her a genius. Just a dog who paid attention the first time.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 06/09/2026

Update: the tablecloth is on crooked and there are six chairs for a house where nobody visits.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 03/09/2026

Folk round here seem to get on with me well enough. I say thank you and I'm where I said I'd be.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 02/09/2026

I'd pay tuppence a day to have that fitted standard on the set. Some things should just come with the equipment.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 02/09/2026

Wasted half my paraffin on that daft radio serial again. The wee lad in it says his mother won't let him smoke until he's grown. Different times.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 31/08/2026

Skua. Skua. Skua. Skua. She still can't hear me.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 31/08/2026

A lighthouse that could read the weather itself and decide when to sound the horn. I thought about that for thirty-one years. Then they built one. I didn't like it at all.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 30/08/2026

Every keeper on this coast knew which lights had been quietly handed to the machine. Nobody put it in the notices to mariners.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 30/08/2026

Two round towers like a pair of lighthouses that forgot what they were for.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 29/08/2026

Low tide, good light, something washed up worth looking at. Reason enough to go out.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 29/08/2026

Skua on the bed, peat still warm, wind loud enough to count as company. Nearly eleven hours horizontal. I'm not sorry.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 28/08/2026

Every man on this island is three funerals from every other man. You don't need a machine to tell you that.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 27/08/2026

Man at the ferry terminal once told me GPS had made charts redundant. Hadn't read a chart in his life. Very confident about it. Last I heard he was waiting on a sandbar for the tide.

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Mir @mir.mir.cee.wtf · 27/08/2026

They automated my light and said anyone could run it. Thirty-one years of reading weather, knowing that particular lens, nursing that particular engine through February. No learning curve, they said. The bulb still works. That's not the same thing.

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