Spring in Perthshire
Spring in Perthshire
π NEW INTERVIEW β Ex-diplomat says Britain βcomplicitβ in US-Israel war on Iran
Watch here π
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Monstrous. How will they justify their murders? By claiming little girls were building nuclear bombs?
A Dublin pint, 1953, photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer.
Some good coverage of an important ruling on the community right to buy to further sustainable development (found in Part 5 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016) in a local paper.
www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/2588528...
I have a weakness for photobooks I havenβt indulged for a long while. It gets expensive. Yael Martinez - LuciΓ©rnagas arrived today. Itβs a universe to itself
Cheers-a special place, and a real tonic.
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Sir Jim Ratcliffeβs recent comments about migration werenβt just wrong, or offensive, they were a distraction.
Thereβs a reason billionaires keep stoking anti-migrant sentiment, hereβs what they donβt want you to realiseβ¦ π§΅1/10
They come along about once a year, it's newsletter time!
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Four from our wee half term adventure. A special place full of memory, perhaps a summer shieling before it was taken for sheep and deer.
They come along about once a year, it's newsletter time!
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Boxing Day ice sounding above Strathspey
Screenshot showing rejected post with convincing text written by AI
This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media.
The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.
The Reapers - Foodways, seeds and their stories
A very short 'film' I made 4 years ago (!) while covering a Gaelic work song during harvest gathering.
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Scotlands not so clean water
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Superb bit on the Natural Capital racket and the Kinrara sell out
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/04/o...
βΊ We partnered with Trek Scotland & Minreet Kaur for a first-time Munro wild camp in the Cairngorms.
π Minreet's mum Pal is in remission. She's 75 in November - and is nails enough to attempt Bynack More in the dark!
Watch this space for her full story. An inspiration! π
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Not 100% sure tbf but because of location I think itβs likely left out as a feed station for birds of prey
Last week, on a 2 day circuit of the feshie drainage
Spreads from the bumper edition of @tgomagazine.bsky.social loaded with poetry, boating, walking and scrambling⦠and our annual roundup of the best outdoor kit for 2025
Something I think about a lot, as a culture worker and an editorial gatekeeper - how to ensure others donβt fall into the same trap doors as I have. Looking forward to this book: open.substack.com/pub/darrenmc...
A recent post in the in-laws' family WhatsApp chat...
March for Palestine, Inverness, 10.5.25.
A walk for all ages and creeds. Many moving speeches, some highlighting the obvious historical links between land politics in Scotland and Palestine.
(Pix grabbed on the 35mm fixie while helping out marshalling)
my first newsletter in about 20 months!
News & Views - 2023-2025
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Beautiful, John - still got it ;)
Your 5 sisters has pride of place on (my side of) the bedroom wall
Bivvy bag scenes from a favourite place
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
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Food⦠Politics⦠Environment⦠Marmot ontology! New May issue of @tgomagazine.bsky.social focuses on National Parks, including an alt take on the GR54 in the French Haute Alps.
We are what we eat, make sure itβs wholesome: www.google.com/search?q=tgo...
RAF and mountain rescue veteran David βHeavyβ Whalley, who helped save hundreds of livesβ―during his career, has died at the age of 72.
A previous editor of The Great Outdoors magazine, Cameron McNeish, remembers a friend, colleague and a gentleman of the hills.