Making coffee at playgroup today and reminded that rural community halls are the best places for boozing. Simplicity at its best.

Postcard of The Aviemore Centre, Highland. (1966)

‘Latha nam bòtannan ùra/ Day of the new Wellies’ is a weeklong festival of dance and rejoicing in the Celtic calendar.

Fragments | Iain Sarjeant anotherplacemag.tumblr.com/post/688233478… Volume 1 of the series is available to pre-order over at Another Place Press anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/fragme… @iainsarjeant

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Guiding for @TeamWilderness this week in one of my favourite parts of the country. Not a bad view today, eh?

Wild weather, so a day exploring the social landscape rather than high hills with my @TeamWilderness group.

This is the abstract from the dissertation I recently completed for an MRes in human geography with Geography Birmingham. I'm interested in how seemingly 'natural' landscape characterisations, such as 'wild land' are bound up with social history and power. 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1VW4-uG…

Rory MacPhee @MarkBinnersley There’s a summary of such land reform in this article I wrote for Eigg’s 25th community buyout. The problem with land nationalisation is if it results in management by administrators. The power of community land, is it’s managed locally and so empowers. thenational.scot/news/environme…

Wonderful few days of walking, camping, bothying and boozing in fine company.

End of the Road festival! So good.

Guiding on the Isle of Skye for @TeamWilderness.

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Top tunes.

Not least as Gaelic placenames tell us better than any history book what plants & animals used to be here, and even more importantly, which 'wild' areas used to have people in them.

A rare item from my vintage magazine advertisement collection. Summerisle Apples. UK, c. mid 70s... 🌞

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