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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Ten days ago I set off on an expedition to cross the Finnmarksvidda plateau in northern Norway on ski. After five days of hauling a pulk and camping in temperatures below -30°c, we travelled just under 100km.

A figure in dark clothing is ascending a snowy rise towards the sunrise with a arc overhead

Wrapped up in several layers of clothing to ski with a pulk loaded with camping gear

A figure in dark clothing stands by tent pitched on snow lit by the green light of the aurora

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Yes that's one of them. My shooting way out performs my skiing at the moment, and I'd never be able to control my breathing enough to get the shots on target

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I genuinely believe there's a couple of Winter Olympic events that I could have had a solid chance at competing in if I started training four years ago when I last had this thought.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

2. Something that's been on the old TBR list for a while, but with the Libby app and a few flights, I finished Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall. #AmReading #BookSky #Geopolitics #Geography

A screenshot of the audio book cover of Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall from the Libby app

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Up, but more up than here right now on a wee holiday. Not down there again until the end of the month.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

1. A chunky start to the year with The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Over 1000 pages, but a very readable tale of medieval life around the building of a cathedral in England. #AmReading #BookSky #HistoricalFiction

The paperback book of The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, looking a bit scruffy and dogeared, lying on a blanket

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Oh, I didn't photograph the big bag of porridge oats that will help spread out the snacks, it should last a little longer with that

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Forecast is looking cold ❄️❄️❄️

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Takk! Tomorrow just a flight to Tromsø, then to Alta for a few days of exploration across Finnmarksvidda

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm not saying that everything made it into the bag...

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Snacks prepared and bags packed. Ready for the airport in the morning.

A close up of an orange duffel bag and a grey and orange ski bag

Piles of snack bags and energy bars laid out on a blanket

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm quite luck to have had a long break between work contracts. Finished end of December, time for a wee adventure this month, then back to work again in March.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Starting next week... ⛷️❄️🥶

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It was a pretty quiet January at home for a change, mainly sheltering from the wild and windy winter weather. Doing cosy stuff like reading books, baking bread and doing jigsaws by the fire. #winter

A slightly dog-eared paperback copy of the book The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett lying on a blanket.

A view of the village under grey skies in a rare break in the rain, with rolling white water hitting the outside of the harbour

A completed jigsaw with a collage of tiger faces as the design. Quite a tricky one.

Another jigsaw with a design featuring the leaves of houseplants. I enjoyed this one more.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This time next year when I'm a millionaire I'm going back for the massive platter of crab that they do. In the meantime they're safe* in their tanks. *from me, but still available for sale

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Took myself out for a fancy dinner in the Bergen Fishmarket. A bowl of crab claws, some gravlaks with sweet mustard sauce, and fresh bread smeared in seaweed garlic butter. Yum

An array of shellfish on display in the fishmarket

Gravlaks and knekkebrød with a glass of white wine

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A driech day in one of my favourite cities, Bergen. Just passing through on a wee autumn adventure in Norway.

The sign opposite the airport which says "Bergen?" in large yellow letters, surrounded by trees in autumn colours. Like the iconic Hollywood sign but designed for drizzlier weather.

The view from my window of the edge of the fishmarket and the fjord ferry terminal in the driech.

And the view of the picturesque city port, though the upper parts of the mountains and the funicular are obscured by rain clouds.

The old wooden buildings of Bryggen world heritage site in the rain.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I don't believe you know Greenland 🤔

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

‘We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

A stunning approach to the landing at Nuuk airport in Greenland. I'm on the way to join the @aurora_expeditions Sylvia Earle for an epic adventure through the Northwest Passage. #NorthWestPassage #PolarGuide www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Does that actually mean bin bananas? Didn't matter, the cake was lovely and squishy

A small cardboard box containing a dessert that is part of an airline meal. The box reads "carrot cake. Made with upcycled bananas and carrots"

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Well, today's plans have been dynamic. Now on the way to somewhere else instead #Greenland

Screenshot of a news article headline about the suspension of international passenger screening at Nuuk, Greenland

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

That's a wee bit of a cheat. My best group was from prone, then kneeling. It was less tight standing up as the rifle was a bit too heavy for me

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A great day of skills development training on the Line of Sight full-bore shooting range in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. Not a bad result either #PolarGuide

A rifle pointing down a shooting range in the hills

A layout showing me holding the rifle for an aimed shot, a paper target with a close grouping in the centre, and a metal target shaped like a roe deer

A button with Line of Sight 500 yards on it.

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Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com · 14/08/2025

Yesterday marked 30 years since British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves died in a storm on K2. My story on the Hargreaves-Ballard climbing dynasty in @thefence.bsky.social from last year about risk, control, blame, why people climb and how we tell their stories: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

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In the Shadow of the Mountain

The soundscape of falling ice.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I had buckfast pulled pork at a place called Smokey Trotters in Glasgow. And scampi fries loaded fries, which is one of the only things that I've had out, said I'd recreate the recipe at home, and actually followed through with it

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Ah, I'd just call it a coke float. Even though it would have any kind of fizzy juice, it would still be a coke float

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Irn bru affogato is probably the most Glasgow thing after tikka masala.

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LucyCB-T @lucycbt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Poem @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social wrote a few months ago & posted on X as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed. 💔

Screenshot of a post on X by Michael Rosen: A poem he wrote a few months ago as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Started watching #DestinationX and feel that this is the one thing in life that all my skills and experience have prepared me for.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“There is a problematic underlying approach in how UNEP operates, which is to consider that the people who created the problems, benefited from the problem, have lied about the problem and their responsibility about it for years and decades, are trustworthy partners to solve those problems.”

theguardian.com

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I got charged at by one while I was on bear sentry at Beechey Island last year.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I don't get a mobile phone signal at home, so just went out in my pyjamas to stand by the harbour to phone the mechanic about repairs to my van and got caught by the Google Street view car.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Did you know you can get fossils inside other fossils? 🤯 Tiny holes in some of our marine reptile fossils are actually burrows of bone-eating worms which are up to 100 million years old! They've now been named as new species - find out more about them 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons | Natural History Museum

Bone-eating worms have been cleaning up the ocean floor for over 100 million years.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

You are just a spring chicken 🐣

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Particularly the apparent ageism they experienced. Having been a participant in the TGO Challenge on several occasions, I'm still in awe of the older participants (the majority) that do this and other similar things on a regular basis.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Fascinated by revalations that have come out around the author of the book/film The Salt Path. I wondered about the progress of Moth's illness after finishing the book, and there just seemed a few other odd things that I couldn't quite put my finger on about the story. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I'm leading a team of Ship Liaison Officers at the Aberdeen Tall Ships Festival at the end of July. Getting stuck in to the event training from this week onwards. #tallshipsaberdeen #sailing

A graphic for the Tall Ships Races event in Aberdeen held between 19th and 22nd July 2025, with the text "I'm a tall ships volunteer" and "sea you there!"

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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

BBC News - Flood alert for Highland and Moray areas affected by wildfires - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wildfires shut roads in Highlands and Moray

Firefighters are dealing with incidents near Forres and Carrbridge.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Gor blimey! You've got to pick a pocket or two, boys! Etc etc 😂

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold. A social history of women + working classes in Victorian London through the lens of the Whitechapel murders, giving voice to victims often forgotten in more sensational accounts of the crimes. #amreading #history

My Kindle showing the cover of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, propped up against a large glass of Calafate pisco sour on the bar at Taberna Club de la Unión in Punta Arenas, Chile.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Another book catch up... the audiobook of Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Klein's thoughts on identity, conspiracy and the mirror world that exists at the bottom of the rabbit hole inspired by confusions with "the other Naomi" #amreading #audiobook

The audiobook cover of Doppelganger by Naomi Klein on the Libby app.

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