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[ADMIN] Our website is now almost tidied up, with a full record of our curators. We will add an archive of the entire decade of tweets, but there are problems with downloading this which we hope Twitter will fix soon. We will update when sorted.
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Needing to drive 60 miles to the closest supermarket does have its perks 😍
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Sometimes, just sometimes it’ all comes together beautifully.
This happened a few seconds ago 👌🏻😁📷👏🏻
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Hello everyone! My name is Carly and I work as a Marketing Graduate for the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust. I am very excited to be taking over this Twitter account for the week!
Gigha is a small but beautiful island on the west coast of Scotland. Have you visited before? ☀️🌊
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One of the best road side signs - on the coast road from Sheildaig to Applecross.
I would love to know what the etc is.
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Where am I?
I’m sure a lot of you will recognise this house…
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This is St John's Head, Hoy, Orkney. If you can see me in the pic, well done. I'm wearing a red top. It's a very big cliff. I climbed an amazing route here called The Longhope Route. /1
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Enjoy your adventures today folkies...wrap up, it ain't the warmest like!!!😉
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❤️Please Help!❤️
Found this by Tescos in Inverness, near the watch repairers, I was getting my Doc Martins fixed, needed a good Biff! On the back, it reads,“Dad&Mum-1955”. Would love to get it back to the owner, either today or sometime very soon in the future. Please share!🙏
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Your daily dose of Hebridean meditation, here we have Vatersay. Turn up your volume and take 9 seconds
#andbreathe
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So a bit about me… my Twitter account is
@down_brynn
My name is Brynn, I am 16yrs old and I live on the island of Yell in Shetland. I am a wheelchair user, but that doesn’t stop me from exploring Shetland and you will often see me on the hills training. I have lived here since..
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Since we’re on the subject of using GoPro cameras for filming wildlife....
I captured this underwater footage of an
#Osprey
catching a trout at
@Rothiemurchus
Nr Aviemore It went viral with in excess of 3 million views! 🤯
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I really love driving through rural Scotland. Even in the wind and rain. 😍
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Did you know that 46% of property in Tiree is not lived in all year round? It makes it very hard to run and grow businesses, or keep communities functioning when houses are at a premium.
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During a dry spell the water level in Loch Shin drops to expose the ghostly remains of the forest that covered the area before the hydro scheme was built.
At times the shoreline looks like part of an alien invasion.
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Good morning everyone! Today, I will be mostly tweeting about LEGO. So here's my LEGO map of Scotland, which I created in 2019. Normally, it would be hanging on my wall, but I'm currently redecorating so for now its being stored in a less prestigious location.
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Polin Beach is one of my must-visit locations in the Highlands. With the colour of the water, it’s hard to believe it’s in Scotland.
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Hello! Mull Geology here. I am doing the H&I Voices Twitter account for this week (17th- 24th May). My passion is for geology, esp the Isle of Mull, so here are a few pictures of Staffa's magnificent rock architecture to kick off with!
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I'm going to leave you with Calum's Road. As you probably know, Calum MacLeod single-handedly built this 1¾ mile stretch of road in the 1960/70s, to connect the residents of northern Raasay with the rest of the island. There is a whole book on the subject by Roger Hutchinson.
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This is me… Brynn the person behind all the tweets this week. As you have seen I don’t let my ♿️ or my severe asthma get in my way! I have really enjoyed having so much engagement with my tweets & I would love it, if you could take a moment to follow me over on
@down_brynn
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This is me, rather soggy, but in my element, having waded across to Oronsay (or Oransay, or Orasaigh!) at low tide to explore the priory. There is clearly much too much to say about this place for a tweet, but I will come back to it later with some individual details.
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Hello! I’m Siân and I’ll be tweeting from South Uist this week!
I am a part time reporter at our local paper Am Pàipear, a part time Fine Art student at UHI (on summer hols obvs!) and a member of both the
@UistArts
and South Uist Games & Piping Society committees
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This is the view from the brewery office window. Loch Linnhe looking over to Three Mile Water with Ben Nevis in the distance. Ardgour is a beautiful place.
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Hello there! I'm Emma - a Geography & Geology teacher living life over in Gairloch, Wester Ross. I'll hopefully be sharing a bit about my favourite places and the people I come across during this week.
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Hello everyone! I'm Catherine,
@CatherineMMunro
and I will be tweeting this week.
I am a writer and tour guide living in
#Shetland
so expect lots of puffins, ponies and other lovely things!
Thanks
@VikBeeWyld
for inviting me and your fantastic tweets last week.
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🌟 BUT WHO AM I? 🌟
So, my names Steven Macdonald and I hail from Baleshare, a small tidal island off the west coast of North Uist. Last year I set up a small business after returning from the mainland, I love everything to do with the outdoors and island life. 😊
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Fàilte! Is mise Kirsty. I am from Bernisdale on the Isle of Skye. I am a Gaelic lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig where I teach on the first year immersion courses. I am also a first year PhD student studying part-time.
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I took my daughter to Raigmore Hospital today to have her eye checkup. She has an astigmatism which was picked up on last year when she had her eyes tested in Nursery. I was told today that Scotland is the only country in the UK that gives pre-school children eye tests.
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Hello folks, Laura here for a quick first tweet. I live in Inverness with my James and my Morag, James is a community nurse and Morag is a lively lovely one year old! You'll hear about cycling, gaelic, music and community from me. I'm excited and a little bit nervous, here goes!
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The story of this account is that I started it a long time ago but the credit really has to go to those who administered it for so long.
Please show your appreciation to
@simonvarwell
@featherytravels
&
@linda83ross
It would have been a much shorter experience without them
It’s the last evening of
@HI_Voices
. All very poignant. I hope everyone’s brought in a toy or game.
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Photographers talk about the 'Golden Hour', even with no photography skills and a brick for a phone, Barra manages to be golden.
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My hopes this week are to share my love of the Isle of Arran with you.
I moved here from West Yorkshire in October 2023 as have been in love with Scotland for years & the thought of living on this beautiful island was a dream.
This is my current view.
Dreams do come true!
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I'll finish this evening with a wee geographical fun fact. Loch Maree in Ross-shire is the location of the UK's only (?) island in a loch on an island (Eilean Sùbhainn) in a loch on an island.
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Hi All. This is my final tweet from the Isle of Barra before handing over to
@smacdonald93
. I hope you've enjoyed the feed this week.
If you'd like to see any more Barra photos you can catch me on instagram at 'islandsarah'.
Suas leis a' Ghàidhlig!
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A cottage being restored and rethatched at
#Malacleit
in
#NorthUist
Note the rounded gable ends, affording protection from the wind.
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THANK YOU!
From a snowy Shetland the time has come to say goodbye 😢
I would like to say a massive thank you for joining me this week on this Twitter feed! Please head over to my account
@down_brynn
& give me a follow if you haven’t already.
You guys have…
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Shellfish farming is very sustainable. Nothing is added they filter their food from the sea. The water is cleaned too and it’s low on CO2. The beds provide shelter and shade for other creatures. We don’t shout about it enough and are often overlooked because it’s also a business.
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Hello, first tweet from Rebecca and Andrew
@Doune_Knoydart
- sharing our lives and work with you for the next week. We run a wee restaurant and rooms on the western tip of Knoydart, accessed only by boat or a loooong walk - so expect food, adventure, wildlife, weather and pets.
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For those who might not know much about Eigg, we're one of the four Small Isles. 110 or so folk live on our 5x3 mile island, an hour off Mallaig, just south of Skye. In June 1997 the island moved from private to community ownership in Scotland's first island community buyout
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En route back to the Highlands with possibly the smallest lurcher on the planet.
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Let’s talk about Scottish authors and books set in the Highlands. Who/what should we all be reading? Self-promotion is encouraged - this is a safe space to big yourself up!
#books
#BookTwitter
#WritingCommunity
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Lovely night here but the reality of second properties & holiday houses is more visible at this time of year. There are eleven houses in our row. 💔
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I'm German-born and follow the events in Westminster with interest. Thanks to EU funding, I came to Scotland to study. Stayed, married, had children, got a mortgage, volunteered, worked, paid tax. 28 years later I'm still here.
Didn't get to vote in EURef.
It's personal.
#mess
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Hi folks, I'm Dave MacLeod from Roybridge. I'm a professional climber. This week I'll tweet about mountains, rock & ice climbs and exercise/health. I'll start off by telling you about one of my best days in the Scottish hills ever /1
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North Uists coasts are definitely to be explored. Here's my fiance enjoying a dip late October 2021.
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Hi folks, I’m Rosie. I live on the Isle of Raasay which, in my humble opinion, is THE BEST place about. Generally, I have quite a bit to say about housing, I work as a Carbon Neutral Development Officer and have an adorable pup that will probably feature heavily this week.
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One of the things I love most about living in the NW Highlands is the absolute tenacity of the weather. I wait eagerly for the gales every winter, but spring can be vicious too. This is the view from our window in April 2021.
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Sunset on Gairloch Beach 🌅😍
Thank you for having me
@HI_Voices
! I've really enjoyed sharing with everyone this week & attempting the challenge of sharing the best bits with some reality. I'm over
@EmmaEarth
on Twitter and Instagram 🌍
Handing over to
@Kirstymacd3
from 6pm 👋
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Today my father and I escaped The Oa for a few hours and had a lovely late lunch at Seasalt Bistro in Port Ellen. My father will be 92 in August. He has farmed in The Oa since he left school and is a great advert for the hill farming life!
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Just head over to the fish factory now to collect our Asda order.
The factory exports local seafood all over Europe.
Every week the empty chilled lorries stop in Glasgow on their return and pick up our grocery orders.
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Good deed Sunday!
A visitor slipped & dropped their
@GoPro
into the Moness Burn in the Birks of Aberfeldy.
They posted on a local FB group asking for help to recover it.
Basically my dream task 😂 and one I have the perfect skillset for!
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I left Oban harbour about 20 years ago for a wee island I had never been to or even heard of. The job interview was successful and I moved there a month later. I still get excited today at saying goodbye to Oban.
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The
@CorranFerry
operated by Highland Council is the gateway to the peninsulas. The crew keep the service going 361 days a year, battling storms, massive tidal flows through the narrows and visitors with unsuitable low-slung sports cars. We are grateful!
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It takes me a while to drive from place to place in
#Shetland
as I have to keep stopping to admire the views, even though I live here. I just love looking at the sky and clouds.
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Failte! My name is
@DonaldMurray56
and I’m your host for this week. I’m a writer, ‘retired’ teacher who lives in Shetland but comes from Ness, Isle of Lewis. I also lived in Benbecula for over a decade. I’ll introduce you to all these localities over the next week.
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Woke up to the long awaited delivery this morning! It's the first calf of ours born on the croft for about 40 years. Happy days!
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Our home was built by my husband's great-grandfather who was a stone mason. There was no road to lochside until 1950s, so materials were brought in by boat and carried up the hill from the boat house (also stone). It was finished in 1910 after 20 yrs of work.
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This is the standing stone circle at Lochbuie, Mull. It's not quite on par with Callanish of course, but I rather like it.
#InnerHebrides
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Believe it or not we actually have a university on Barra!
(Well, a campus building anyway).
The university of the Highlands and Islands has campuses all over Scotland. Remote learning means we can access lots of courses we'd otherwise have to leave the island to do.
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Absolutely incredible light as we circled the cliffs around Mingulay and Barra Head
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Good morning Twitter!
Today is my (
@down_brynn
‘s) last day taking over this account, so I thought I would kick start our Sunday by introducing you to these guys! A couple of Shetland ponies I often see roaming around in Yell. They always make my day & put a smile on my face!
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I am sitting at my desk trying to write, watching mist roll down the hill. I think I will get a notebook and pen and head out. I can never concentrate indoors when the weather is beautiful
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Like many young highland and islanders, when I left for university at 18 I was delighted to leave and was so ready to set sights on the bright city lights. I never in a million years thought I’d ever move back home.
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After years of private ownership, the island was put up for sale for the huge sum of £4,000,000!
After much discussion, the islanders decided that they wanted to take control of their own future.
The brave decision was made by the community to buy the Isle of Gigha!
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Before I go I will be sharing some memories of around Shetland. I am very lucky to be able to call this little corner of the world my home.
I spend a lot of time in this spot, looking out to Mid Yell Voe. When I was shielding this is the place I missed the most.
@down_brynn
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Sunrise in Orkney this morning. Looking east down the hill from the farm
Weather is dry but bit breezy with an autumnal chill
Some of the rams just visible lying down by the gate
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One of my favourite times of the year is when the gorse flowers. Everywhere you go smells absolutely delightful!
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*** 12th June Anniversary ***
24 years ago, our community became the owners and steward of the Isle of Eigg. It's "just" a date, but it's a world of a difference. Raise a glass with us today - here's to celebrating in person again next year.
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I hope you are all enjoying this weeks tweets so far.
Me & my family are delighted to be able to share Shetland with you.
Here is a photo of us all in our favourite place & at the best time of the day. Watching the sunset from our local pier in Yell.
Goodnight fae
@down_brynn
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Hello all
@SarahSRK
here and I'll be running this account for the rest of the week. Be prepared for lots of photos of Barra, my dog and tweets in Gàidhlig.
I took this photo today on the Traigh Eais - it was bitterly cold!
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Attitudes have to change. We can’t let folk off with calling An Lochan Uaine ‘the green loch’. That’s not it’s name, and ur contributing to cultural erasure, whether u think u are or not. There’s no excuse, particularly for those who proclaim to be experts.
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(1/4) This curious pattern is a quern stone quarry on Gigha. There are a number of them around the
#InnerHebrides
and no doubt elsewhere. Quern stones were used for grinding food such as corn from Neolithic times to the 19th century. At various points in the 18th and...
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[ADMIN] Coming full circle, we need to thank
@sweenyness
, who started this account, for finishing it on a high note.
We're now working on an archive, and will update this account and the website soon.
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Stood on top of the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye. Pic by Dave Cuthbertson.
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Gaelic speakers have been told for centuries to be ashamed of their language for having no place in the world today. To paraphrase the Mealabost Bàrd, that stops here. No longer should we be abashed to use a language that is consistently beset on all sides by dominant powers.
I hope this isn’t the impression most have gotten so far this week. Co dhiù, cha ghabh a h-uile duine shàsachadh.
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Yeah, it rains a lot in the Outer Hebrides.
Yeah, it's often very windy.
Yeah, in winter it can be bitterly cold...
But see on nice days? On nice days you get to live in a place that looks like THIS.
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Feel it’s worth showing my auntie Shona’s nails this lambing season. If that’s not commitment to the cause then I don’t know what is 😂🐑
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Good morning Highlands and Islands followers.
A recreational stile at Red Point beach, with views to Raasay and Skye's Trotternish Ridge.
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At the south end of Shetland mainland you will find these little guys. The best place to see them is at Sumbrugh head lighthouse. You may know them as Puffins but they are known to the locals as a Tammy Norrie.
To see these comical characters you will need to visit inbetween…
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Barra is often nicknamed Barradise or Barrabados and it's easy to see why. During the summer months the white, sandy beaches and clear blue water sparkle in the sunlight. You can also usually have the beach completely to yourself.
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Good Morning folks, how are you all today? Today is my last day on H&I Voices, so here's a pic of Loch Shiel & the Glenfinnan Viaduct from Beinn an Tuim. 😁
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Signing off tonight with this photo taken in the summer of 2019 just before midnight. In the summer around June, July, Shetland sunsets are around 11pm & just dips below the horizon before rising again around 3am. Meaning it never gets darks…
Just look at how still the sea is!
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Deer are a ‘problem’ but also an opportunity. Let’s get more venison on plates. It’s great stuff.
Scotland's deer population has nearly doubled in my lifetime, with devastating effects for our natural environment.
#GreensInGovernment
will ensure that big estate owners take responsibility for managing the deer population on their land
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Another Ness historic site for you. I spent my afternoon at Filiscleitir, where John Nicholson (An Fiosaiche, The Seer, who introduced evangelicalism to Ness) built a spectacular clifftop chapel among the shielings. 3rd pic is a shieling ruin, 4th a phone pic for context.
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As my final day of tweeting a random assortment of Highland related stuff dawns, have a midsummer sunset stile from Assynt.
I hope you've enjoyed this week, or at least found it tolerable. There'll be a few more stiles, tin sheds, clouds, the odd beach.
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I'm going to be sharing a few maps each day, so let's kick off with a 3D map of the Western Isles. This is made with free data from
@OrdnanceSurvey
& a free program called Aerialod.
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Hiya folks! It’s me
@VictoriaHarvey_
and I’m taking over this week!
I live in Stornoway and am the Front of House manager at the
@CalanaisCentre
, you can find out a bit more about me with the link in the bio. I’m a wee bit nervous!👋 how’s everyone’s Sunday going?
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The Cairngorms are looking moody and magnificent this morning.
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You saw the behind the scenes footage this morning, and now here’s the results.
#RedSquirrel
portrait
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The view from my croft, and one of my lambs posed perfectly 🤩 Bidh mi a’ tweetadh mu Gàidhlig, coimhearsnachd, beathaichean is croitearachd is mo bheatha, mar te òg le Gàidhlig a’ fuireach ann an coimhearsnachd eileanach☺️
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