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The Silver Slashers were working near Aberffraw today, in two working parties. We had to clear a lot of brambles to install this ladder stile. #Anglesey #YnysMôn #RamblersCymru #Stiles #Volunteers

Lovely skies over Eryri and Pen Llŷn on yesterday's walk. #Anglesey #YnysMôn #Eryri #Snowdonia

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Today the Silver Slashers were clearing a footpath, removing fallen trees and replacing some steps between Llandonna and Pentraeth forest. There's old trees and lots of evidence of previous hazel coppicing. #Anglesey #YnysMôn #ramblerscymru #volunteers

A laid back campsite with access to community owned land with regenerating woodland was the perfect place for a couple of nights in our #campervan. #Scotland Glengoulandie Camping & Dùn Coillich Community Land – Back on the road again share.google/E1g9zDHtGmPQ...

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Moody skies over Pen Llŷn from Abermenai estuary. #Anglesey #YnysMon #DailyWalk #MentalHealth

We're really enjoying watching Jule's and Greg's Wild Swim on BBC Scotland. It already makes us want to return to the Outer Hebrides. And there's some amazing tidal pools in Fife: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The Silver Slashers were replacing three ladder stiles today, around Ty Croes close to Bodorgan railway station. A calm day with warm sunshine and outstanding views.

For the past few weeks the Silver Slashers have been working on replacing 60m of boardwalk along the Anglesey coastal path near Llandonna. Bad weather delayed us on a couple of days. We finished the final section yesterday. Where possible we've re-used the tread boards to save money.

Hopefully they'll also be room on the spaceship for Mr Far Rage and 'our Tommy'.

I need to empty the Gaslow tanks to get them replaced (10 year life), so I'm mostly cooking in the van on the drive! Chicken curry today.

From near the source to Melrose, we follow the River Tweed on foot and in our #campervan. #Scotland Following the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders – Back on the road again share.google/B4Le29ufUG5x...

We had a walk around the lovely harbour town of Portpatrick, including a walk up to the evocative ruins of Dunskey castle.

After visiting Culzean Gardens (NT Scotland), we're parked up on the Scar Park CAMpRA aire, overlooking Stranraer. It's an ex-RAF Flying Boat station. The huge pitches are on the concrete plane parking areas and we must be about 50m from our nearest van neighbour!

Currently parked up by Saltcoats harbour on the west coast of Scotland. Although windy last night, we've been serenaded by myriad seagulls and oyster catchers and watched a lovely sunset. The fish and chips were good too.

BREAKING: A UN inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. All eyes are now on the UK Government who must stop indulging in genocide denial. It must fulfil its legal and moral responsibility by taking immediate, decisive steps to prevent and punish genocide.

#cycling in #France is always fabulous and nowhere is more fabulous than around the Marais Poitevin in the Vendée. My latest blog post. Cycling along the Shady Banks of The Marais Poitevin in France – Back on the road again share.google/D2Mauu6xeT4Q...

No, I've not chopped his head off! This is a typical Patterdale Terrier, who spent this morning in terrier heaven - lying down with his head down a rabbit hole. No rabbits were hurt in the filming of this photo! #TerrierTuesday

Back on the mainland after a great fortnight in the Outer Hebrides. We're now on a campsite north of Oban for a couple of days, to recover from this morning's 4am start and ferry crossing, plus Cathy has an online Welsh lesson tomorrow. Still managed a nice beach walk this afternoon though.

We've made it to Barra and are staying on the lovely Scurrival campsite. We've seen a plane take off on the low-tide beach runway, Cathy went skinny-dipping in the Atlantic and after we sat on a bench with hot drinks watching the waves pounding. Hot sunshine today but back to wind and rain tomorrow.

A brew with a view! After a stormy and very wet couple of days, it's good to see the sunshine again. We're looking forward to seeing Barra and Vatersay before returning to the mainland.

Strong winds & heavy rain for two days, so we're on a CL on South Uist to charge the leisure battery and dry out coats. All local Cal Mac ferries have been cancelled today. We're due to sail to Barra tomorrow IF the weather eases - all part of the adventure! In the meantime - chicken jalfrezi.

The theme for #WorldSuicidePreventionDay2025 is “Creating Hope Through Action.” In my experience it can be so easy to choose an inactive path when faced with severe mental health turmoil. We each tread individual paths but it’s good to share our experience in the hope this will resonate for others.

Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, the theme, “Creating Hope Through Action”. I learned so much about myself on my recent walking adventure through Scotland. How I live with bouts of debilitating depression & powerful ideations to complete my suicide. Holding onto HOPE is key.

We saw our first otter today! We're on Benbecula and it nonchalantly crossed the road about 20m in front of us. With no other traffic we stopped and watched it for the few seconds it took to reach water and safety. A pre-lunch walk to Peter's Port between heavy rain showers. 😊

Strong winds and rain showers on North Uist, but it's still beautiful. We're parked up watching the weather. I also met Hercules the bear (or at least his life size statue at his resting place) in Langass Woodland.

After yesterday's heavy rain, it was a sunny but windy crossing from Harris to Berneray. West beach was lovely and we're now parked up at East beach with amazing views. Warm and sheltered in the van with a pot of beef stew simmering on the stove.

Admin morning. Using the launderette at the Leverhulme Community Centre in Leverburgh. Breakfast and trip research in the meantime.

Does anyone remember Castaway 2000, one of the first (and still the best) reality TV documentary? This is Taransay where it was based, photo taken from Luskentyre beach, West Harris. I wish they'd repeat that excellent series.

The Angela Rayner Story - In A Nutshell. I made this last April I believe it still stands. #embroidery

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Knepp beach for our morning walk after leaving the excellent Croft 1 Camperstop in Reef Village, Isle of Lewis. Now parked up and chilling at Mealasta Bay. Watching the tide come in and hoping for a chilly but refreshing late afternoon dip. #youneverregretaswim

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#vanlife isn't all sunsets and quiet sandy beaches! We spent the night in the car park next to Tesco in Ullapool. It was quiet and we slept well. Now it's coming to life as lorries, cars and vans prepare to catch the ferry. It was a very warm 21⁰C here yesterday afternoon.

Fancy a #cycling holiday in #Poland? How we found cycling along the Dunajec River. Distances, costs, veggie food, cycling infrastructure and hotels. Cycling along the Dunajec River in Poland – Back on the road again share.google/ABdxOr24j4go...

On the way to Ullapool to catch the ferry tomorrow, weather permitting. Stopped off at Knockan Crag for lunch and a walk.

We've made camp for a couple of days on a CL not far from Bonar Bridge in Sutherland. No driving tomorrow nor wild camping meant I could have a glass of wine tonight, enjoying the evening sunshine.

After a day in Fort William (recommend the West Highlands Museum and the Nevis Bakery!) we're now on a CAMpRA Aire at the Bridge of Oich, next to the Caledonian Canal.

Bit of a wet day but not complaining as we've seen so little of it recently. Still, we ended up at a quiet park-up along a narrow road not far from the Bridge of Orchy and the clouds broke for some evening sunshine. #scotland #vantrip

In his favourite place - curled up in the campervan. #TerrierTuesday #PatterdaleTerrier

First park-up of our month long trip to Scotland. We left Anglesey this morning and drove to Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve in the Moffat Hills. Our National Trust for Scotland membership means we get to park for free. Walk done, waterfall viewed, supper eaten. #scotland #moffathills

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He always wanted his own camping chair. #TerrierTuesday

The Silver Slashers were back at Llanrhuddlad today. An old wooden bridge was removed and replaced with one we built using re-purposed armco motorway barriers. A wooden ladder stile on the other side was replaced with a metal H-stile. Finally we cleared around another bridge ready to replace it.

A bit late posting but last Friday the Silver Slashers were near Llanrhuddlad installing kissing gates. The big boys' toys were needed to get through the rock! The next day I was helping to clear some paths at @llynparcmawr. Sunday was a recovery day!

Salty the Patterdale was rescued from a farm, where he'd been locked in a dark shed for the first year of his life. Now he likes nothing better than travelling in our campervan (here with his hairy bro)....and sniffing out rabbits of course! #TerrierTuesday