Vicky Stonebridge

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.

In studio Action photo!

#potterystudio #Scottishpotter

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. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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

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).

‘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

‘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...

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

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/...

Does it say which 6 are the worst, so we can target, boycott and focus efforts towards stopping them?

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.

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 big red rotavator at the bottom of a steep slope of freshly dug ground.

Looking down a steep field that's been freshly dug over. It's rough ground with dead bracken. A loch, hills and blue skies in the background.

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

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

This is fantastic and yes those details ❤️. I haven't seen your illo art in a billion years! Great.

Highland view from up a hill, brown Heather, blue skies.

View from a up a hill looking across a loch to hills in the background.

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.

Portrait of RFK Jr

Science is dead.

🚨🔥😍

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❤️

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.

Remember when Elonia commented snark about being both a zi0 nist and a nat z1 ? Well here's the evidence that you can in fact be both, as well as total dull witted pea brained parasites.

A faded vintage photo of a bearded man in a tartan shirt cross country skiing across a snow field .

A faded vintage photo. It's a sandy beach, a bearded man stands in a deep hole in the sand up to over his waist. He looks pretty proud of this crater he's dug.

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.

I have the original on a 45... probably very scratched!

Palestinian child administrative detainees reach all-time high Israeli forces are detaining more Palestinian children without charge than ever before.

‘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_...

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.

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...

I've planted a few already, that's 4x more fruit trees and 125 native Scottish broadleaves just gone in. I have another 30+ but they're pot grown so less hurry to plant them.

An old stone building. Tin roof with skylights. Old cart wheel either side of the wooden door. Old wrought iron windows. Big barn doors have " pottery " sign on it. Blue sky with clouds above.

Inside a working pottery studio and shop. In a mess. Potters wheel, a ladder, card stands, brushes, boxes, clutter. It's an old stone building.

Inside A building , a stone chimney with a rusted hood above what was once a blacksmiths forge

A view of a blacksmiths forge with some old farm tools, a rusty hood over the forge, a wood stove on a stone plinth nearby.

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