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2023 in Three
Nacreous clouds are everywhere to be seen as 2023 finishes her spin cycle. And spinning is an appropriate metaphor as it feels like the year has barely started and yet it’s almost in the laundry basket, ready to hang up. Those beautiful rainbows clouds in the sky lent our local school an almost sci-fi edge.…
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Storm Babet’s Bothy
A photo of my grandad can still be found on the wall in the restaurant area of the Cross Keys Hotel in Ettrick Bridge. What he is doing in the picture I can’t quite remember as I saw the picture about 12 years ago on a quick stop through the village. The Ettrick Valley was…
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Roger and Out
Parting ways with a friend is always going to cause you some discomfort. Roger, our T5, is moving on to pastures new. But there are two reasons we can live with that discomfort and accept that Roger’s departure is ok. One. We sold to a friend and they are mega excited to be taking on…
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When can I go back to St Kilda?
What do you do when you’ve been on that “Top of my Bucket List” adventure? A trip to the St Kilda archipelago has been at the top of my adventure wish list for years. My 4am alarm call on Friday last week fired the gun on my excitement for the day ahead, while also giving…
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Grid Square Journeys no. 5 – NN 9931 (Montreal)
I’ve never been to Canada, but when I do I hope it’s as lovely as Montreal in Perthshire in the sun. Yes, that’s right, Montreal in Perthshire. It’s no metropolis but rather is an old croft near Harrietfield with the same name as the largest city in Quebec. And yet for such a lovely area,…
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Loch Con and the Field of the Flat Stones
With its single track roads and remote spaces, I’ve always been a fan of Highland Perthshire. So when by a total fluke I found an article online about Loch Con, it’s bothy and the walk in, I immediately added it to my ever-growing wish list of places to visit and waited for the ideal opportunity.…
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“Where are you from?”
Our landscape doesn’t owe us humans anything. It has no obligations to us. Beneath our feet it’s heart beats as surely as ours. It is free. And we have, until our recent creation of climate change, lived in relative harmony. It didn’t feel like harmony as the snow blew at me from every direction, in…
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Are Wooded Hills the Best?
How to get a hill view. Without climbing a big hill. That was the challenge Dave set me and I pondered a few options. I thought of some small hills in the area with big view such as the Lomond Hills and Ben A’an. The OS maps were scoured for hills I hadn’t heard of…
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