Hiking the Affric-Kintail Way, Day 4 Glen Affric YH to Morvich 25km. Last day of thru hike, such a remote area I only saw 6 people hiking the trail over the 4 days 👌and after 3 days finally get a signal. A fabulous hike 🩵💚☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Looks fabulous!

Wall-to-wall sunshine and no midges! Picked the right few days for a bothy/camping trip to the Rough Bounds of Knoydart. Absolutely stunning, Scotland at its best! 3 Munros climbed again & 2 Corbetts anew. (But I also picked up loads of ticks, there were deer everywhere). ☀️🥾

An amazing morning walking across Uig Beach and surrounding beaches #beaches #Scotland

Long shot but we have received a very sweet birthday card, including some cash but no return address, to a "Jordan Bedding" who presumably lives/lived in Stroud, though not at our house. Please feel free to repost and let's cheer up a stranger.

It was quite a steep hike, but so glad we did it. Wonderful views from the top #hike #Skye

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Here is a simple customer service difference: #Evri throw package out in open on ground and leave gate open to have package stolen. #RoyalMail package delivered safely to neighbour, postie drives past see's me arriving home and apologises, using my name, for missing me earlier.

Destroy these companies. Jail their owners. Redistribute their wealth to the poorest children on the planet

The greatest sickness in modern life is the rise of performative cruelty. Many no longer hide their sadism but revel in it. It’s not hard to trace the root cause. The book is an empathy machine. It’s no surprise the decline in reading has been accompanied by a spike in inhumanity. It’s hand in glove

★★★★★ Review - DEADLY CODE - 'Great characters, plot rattles along at a great pace and the finale is just brilliant. All in all a cracking good read' https://bit.ly/4iknq01 #CrimeFiction #Mystery #Thriller #CSI #LinAnderson #SantaMonica #Raasay #BloodyScotland

If we're spending millions commemorating a woman in Scotland, I have some ideas. Here's a 🧵of high achievers worthy of statues. 1st Jennie Lee, MP & founder of @OpenUniversity . The work she did as Arts Minister was transformative. Also = Mrs Aneurin Bevan /1

Wee walk near Edinburgh Airport after school. Tomorrow's author visit is a school hereabouts. 😊

Sanna Bay, Ardnamurchan. Pic: IG/kenny.d.block

On the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill to be decided on next month “real people at the heart of this Bill” have watched someone they care for having to “suffer unbearably at the end of life”. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Looking towards the Cairngorms from Sgor Gaoith in the Cromdale Hills this afternoon. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cairngorms/g...

Good morning start of new week. I am holding onto that feeling of sun on my face on Saturday. Have a good week..😎☕️xx 6 weeks & counting.. #retiredandroaming

Why have I never heard of this extraordinary woman? Yes, I’m asking you, mainstream journalists?

I spy with my little eye, I saw blue sky last night when I got here with Louise & snowy tops mountains..feels so long since I saw blue sky, I wanted to share xx

Morning. Up close & personal admiring the handiwork of the Romans on Hadrian's Wall. With undulating hills & such vast landscape giving such raw beauty, it is a feast for the eyes to behold... Have a very good day...☕️ xx

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wishing everyone in Scotland and across the world a very happy Burns Night. It’s comin yet for a’ that...

Our president Zahrah Mahmood has received her MBE from the Princess Royal! ❤️ Zahrah says it: "amplifies the messages that people like myself are trying to get out...that everybody belongs in the outdoors, no matter what background or culture or religion or even financial background you’re from.”

Glad this week has come to a close, its been like a roller coaster with emotions. Looking forward to getting away in Louise & reconnecting with nature. Nature has its own rhythm & if you become in tune with it, it can become quite therapeutic. Have a great weekend, keep safe & share your smiles 💜🚐 x

Beside the North wall, at the north east corner of Housesteads Roman Fort. Looking east along the line of Hadrian's Wall mile 36. #harianswall #followtheacorn #RomanFortThursday

Frida Kahlo...with her pet hawk, 1939 (photo by N. Muray) #womensart

Love this trompe-l'œil style mural on the ground floor of an exposed tenement gable in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #streetart #mural #linthouse #govan #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #clydetunnel

🏆 EUROPEAN RECORD BREAKER! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Eilish McColgan who has just only gone and broke the Women’s 10KM European record in Valencia at a time of 30:07 - just SEVEN DAYS after the record was last broken!

Still snowbound here - so got out by snow shoeing up Tom an Uird. Ridiculously soft powder so very exhausting!

In 2007 Douglas Alexander said the only way to achieve Scottish independence was for the SNP to win a majority in a Holyrood election and then a majority in an Indyref. This could come back to haunt the new Scottish Secretary. He won't want this retweeted.👇 www.facebook.com/share/v/1KUJ...

SNHS is the BEST in the world in my opinion,my sister was 46 years a Nurse,they never retire,it's a vocation,it's a DIFFERENT BREED OF HUMAN BEING,that care for us ALL,with one hand tied behind their backs,THANK YOU ALL SNHS🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 STAFF,PLEASE KNOW YOU MATTER,have a great Xmas and New year,THANK YOU🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Are Scots the most indoor folk in Europe? Daytrippers. Next to no family weekend huts. Priced out of overnight stays. Lost family links to the land. Why no outrage? Chuffed to be at Blether of Books Nov 2 Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. tinyurl.com/bdfcfev2

A couple of new hills for me today. Ones I can see from home and yet had never climbed - Millstone Cairn and Creag nan Leachda....plus a climb up Creag Loisgte. No real plan, just wandering about and walking wherever looked interesting 🙂

Good news for rail users in Scotland, from tomorrow, the Scottish Government has scrapped peak rail fares. Every little helps.

Scotland will be free… and the values of Sweden are a model for us to follow

*Very* brief glimpse of an Otter on the River Kelvin in Glasgow, just after midday yesterday.

A fantastic time last weekend with Red Rope pals, based in Elphin. Love this part of Scotland - and it was looking particularly lovely with the bonnie blooming heather. @redropescot.bsky.social

Who knew that squirrel’s love satsuma!

I could power the national grid with that right now.

Any chance we could stop indulging in the not necessary and focus our energy on issues that matter to people in Scotland?

I was looking at the fountain a couple of weeks ago and it's in a bad state again - couple of heads missing from the smaller figures around the bottom, and flaking of the stone at the base. Definitely needs some attention before winter.

Donegal, Ireland.

Andy Scott's statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh on Argyle Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow glowing golden in last rays of this evening's setting sun. #glasgow #statue #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #anderston #publicart #eveninglight

Now with link to judgment, just published today. What did the judge decide? Click on the link at the top of the blog post. #NotSecretCourt

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

Really enjoyed a walk at Loch Leven yesterday, used to visit daily when I worked in Milnathort for @ramblersscotland.bsky.social. It was busy with walkers & cyclists, hard to imagine the path hasn’t always been there. Testament to the hard work of the local path group, landowners, funders.

I met Cleo Laine on a couple of occasions when her daughter, Jacqui Dankworth, was at the Guildhall at the same time as my sister. Calling Cleo a force of nature doesn’t quite cut it; she was phenomenal. And she could sing anything you put in front of her!

Remembering Janey

#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide

Very unsatisfactory article: apparently we don’t need to panic about sea level rise, UN Sec Generally and others are fear mongering about climate migration. Maybe true, but maps and figures are needed to support the argument. theconversation.com/what-danish-...