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Aircraft carrier in docks

Firth of Forth: walking the coast of witches and war

War machines, tav avoiders, climate change. If you want to escape politics, walking along the Firth of Forth is not the place to do it.

July 30, 2019 in History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Light breaks over mountains and Loch Hourn, Knoydart

Planting trees, freezing nights and talking deer

An amateur dabbler goes tree-planting on Knoydart, mending Scotland’s ecological damage one sapling at a time. Souls were nearly bartered for dry socks.

July 31, 2018 in Scotland.
Tree with ribbons and other items tied to it as offerings to local fairies

The mystery of a Scottish minister and a secret world of fairies

Robert Kirk’s research into fairy folklore is still important today. Was this 17th century Scottish minister punished for prying a little too closely into the world of fairies and elves?

December 6, 2017 in History, Scotland.
Ruins of Cambusnethan House - windows, walls and blue sky

Crawford Priory Revisited: abandoned ruins and golf balls

A return visit to the enigmatic ruins of Crawford Priory yields family memories, new secrets and golf balls.

April 17, 2017 in Psychogeography, Scotland.
Trees, sea marsh, coast - Porlock

Somerset: Walking with Coleridge and the Person from Porlock

Walk in parts of Devon and Somerset and you walk the footsteps, opium dreams and Romantic poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

August 2, 2016 in History, Travel, Uncategorized.
Tree in the fog

Ghosts, fog and Bedlam: country night-walking

Night walking a country lane, exploring local Shropshire ghosts and watching a winter sunrise on the eerie Titterstone Clee Hill.

March 18, 2015 in Uncategorized.

Hidden Fife: the abandoned railway buildings

The line of abandoned buildings lay on the other side of a field of stubble. Access to the buildings was an easy matter of wading through nettles, brambles and overgrowth and hopping through an open window.

October 21, 2013 in Scotland.

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