Hello Suilven, goodbye Suilven 😊

Hello Stac Pollaidh, goodbye Stac Pollaidh 😊

Hello Dalwhinnie, goodbye Dalwhinnie 😊

And the smell of candle-scorched tumshie is the smell of Halloween.

Inversions are special things. They turn ordinary hills into superstars.

A very sad day. RIP slender-billed curlew

*Friday October 10th 08:20 Windy says hard to believe about 45 years ago I'd be oot standing on the corner of Sydney Crescent waiting for Bayne's lorry coming round to pick up awe the tattie howkers Absolutely back breaking work but the best days oh ma life . . . starting wae a

Should 'meaty' terms be allowed for plant-based food. I always think it weird when vege looks like eg a rasher a bacon. But then why not 🤷 https://t.co/woFfdiDGDW

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This is just astonishing. Starmer is evil and servile at the same time.

Most people will look nostalgically at this photo of the hotels in Aviemore. My first reaction was ‘look at the size of the snow wreaths on Cairn Gorm for mid-May’. Such is the life of a chionophile… <sighs>

@HudaAmmori Will the editor @sanglesey & editorial staff of The New World be arrested? will their web team be arrested for publishing this on their web site? Will those who purchase the magazine from newsagents be arrested? Will newsagents be arrested for displaying it?This'll be interesting

It always surprises me what posts do well and what don’t do so well. Anyway, the geese over the Forth valley have made the World Service.

The fellas at the Greens have voted to ‘abolish landlords’ I’m in favour of tackling bad landlords, but abolish them all & some people will find themselves homeless The state will not give every renter a home This is like sixth form politics, beautifully idealistic but unworkable

With an amazingly supportive landlord, we’ve been involved in restoring a whole hillside near to where we live A mixture of creating wood pasture/savannah type habitat, wetland restoration, and regenerative grazing It’s going to be EPIC

It was lovely to be a tiny part of this today!

Two hours to get through passport control today 😳 Bloody brexit! Then I had to set up and pay for roaming!

The measure of a visionary – Jane Goodall on the indivisibility of art and science

I wish I felt we had politicians remotely equal to the task of thinking about how we find ways to provide safe, dignified, reliable care for an ageing population. But I don't see them, anywhere. Well done to the BBC for investing in this report. It's a distressing read.

I am admittedly a bear of very little brain, and tend towards reactionary old man-ism, but I can't quite square Starmer's "no we haven't put anyone at risk with our rhetoric" with "these people are our enemies and this is an existential fight for the soul of our nation"