Lesley Kingsley

View from Dun Beag Broch, Isle of Skye.

Towards the Cuillin from Dun Beag Broch, Isle of Skye

Dun Beag Broch, Isle of Skye.

MacLeod’s Tables, Glendale, Isle of Skye

We didn’t get rained on today 😊

We’ve had a week of grey skies and light showers to torrential rain so far, but it’s still spectacular! Lucky to still have another week to come so we may just have more than an hour of sunlight in a day yet 😆 😎

Sea loch and cliffs, Isle of Skye, taken through a window, including the reflection of a view from another window.

Currently staying on the #IsleofSkye I’ve seen all of the weather in the last 36 hrs. This is a photograph of (a small part of) the view from the window, with the reflection from another window seen in the sky…. not altered by me. Liked the effect, not sure I have done it justice though 😊

Bright orange / red autumn maple leaves

Years ago my mum bought me the smallest, weediest maple tree sapling from a local supermarket. Mostly because she felt sorry for it. This year has been its best so far…. the leaves are just stunning. It’s right outside the lounge window and I’m finding myself gazing at it all the time 🧡

Tiles on a cathedral floor that have been laid with no thought for matching up the patterns properly.

Not one for people with OCD 😬

Rush Announces 2026 Reunion Tour To Celebrate Life Of Late Drummer Neil Peart Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, co-founders of the classic rock band Rush, have announced the band's first tour in 11 years.

My ‘first love’ band 😍.
With Anika Nilles drumming!
OMG I hope they play the UK.

#EngageFangirlMode
#BegintheDayWithaFriendlyVoice

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YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Living Colour – Cult of Personality

Another favourite live band. This song couldn’t be more pertinent at this time.
#LivingColour
#CultofPersonality
#AskNotWhatYourCountryCanDoForYou

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Banned Books Week UK starts next Sunday! Help spread the word:

🔹Post on social media
🔹Share your favourite banned book
🔹Use the #BannedBooksWeekUK

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For the Epsteinth time, Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.

YouTube video by Ryan's Smashing Life Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street

Today I shall channel the kid in the red sweater 🤩

#steviewonder #sesamestreet
#superstition

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If you haven’t seen it already, search for ‘Superstition Sesame Street’ - one of my favourite videos, little kids grooving out to six minute, full band version 🤩
In fact, I’m going to post it on my feed now!

Love this.

English Roundabouts   They’re making the roundabouts great again by painting the flag of St George to keep our circular road systems safe from the dark, satanic hordes. What do they want? Patriotic junctions! When do they want them? Before it’s too late. Good old-fashioned English roundabouts, as decreed by Alfred the Great. Behold the sacred intersection, this blessed plot, this septic isle. English roundabouts for English people, draped in red and white and bile. St George is cross, as well he may be – whipped-up hate, he’s seen before. Give way to the right, the road signs rage, and the far right most of all. Brian Bilston

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Just started this:

Great book 😊

Show me the nipple-baring Ziggy knitwear! A tour inside David Bowie’s mind-boggling 90,000-item archive From the plans for a Major Tom movie to the Aladdin Sane mask and some wild ‘artworks’ sent by fans, this Bowie treasure trove is now open to the public – and it’s the freakiest show!

I was lucky enough to see the ‘David Bowie Is’ exhibition when it toured. Standing in front of his blue ‘Life on Mars’ suit it became very obvious that the room was terribly dusty…. 🥴
#DavidBowieIs #Bowiearchive #LifeOnMars

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Denied 😐😂

*As well as the fact….
(not ‘apart’).
🥴

Apart from the fact my dad drove mobile cranes for Grayston Crane Hire in the 70s, I love everything about this photograph!
It’s got definite ‘The Bed Sitting Room’ vibes. 😍
Wonder who the lady was 🤔
#thebedsittingroom #graystonwhiteandsparrow
#photonostalgia

I love this 😍. It’s like a scene from the film ‘The Bed Sitting Room’ (a classic in my eyes).
Then, to top it off, a Graytson crane in the background… my dad worked for them at the time as a crane driver… nostalgia right there for me 😊.
Fantastic photograph!

I’m channelling this kid today 😎

This.

I know, I know but still:

Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers

Nearly 20 years an Indie.

A blonde lurcher curled up on a woolly blanket.

A blonde lurcher, lying on his back with feet in the air.

First pic - Scout
Second pic - Sidney
Scout was much smaller than Sid, but they could have passed for siblings if they had been around at the same time.
Lost Scout around 10 years ago, Sid in June this year 💔

Two of the bestest, goodest dogs.
#nationaldogday #nationaldogday2025

Tuesday.

At first glance I thought that was a photograph of the newly ‘enhanced’ Oval Office 😬

A path between overgrown hedgerows, Wales.

A few days away, enjoying walks and nature.

Vintage clock case repurposed as a frame for a tiny watercolour painting of a harvest mouse.

Latest tiny 3D painting in a vintage clock case featuring a harvest mouse feasting on blackberries.
I love creating these 😊

Watercolour painting / diorama of a red squirrel, framed in an upcycled vintage alarm clock case.

A recently completed commission.
All original watercolour artwork, forming a little diorama, framed in an upcycled vintage clock case.

I love making these 😊

Flower meadow at Muker, Swaledale, Yorkshire.

Happy Yorkshire Day 🤍