Skye Balou
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Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
Love your pictures, your apostrophe and your Oxford comma. I apologise if that sounds patronising or even matronising but it’s heartfelt.
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Love your pictures, your apostrophe and your Oxford comma. I apologise if that sounds patronising or even matronising but it’s heartfelt.
You’re very lucky.
Lindisfarne? 🥰
Lindisfarne? 🥰
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You’re very lucky.
Lindisfarne? 🥰
Lindisfarne? 🥰
You should post a picture of it and they could be in a competition for the highest level of decrepitude and rust.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You should post a picture of it and they could be in a competition for the highest level of decrepitude and rust.
As you've no doubt discovered, crofting is the way much of the farmed land was occupied after the Highland Clearances. Most rural scattered communities were formed by crofts. I think it's a pretty complex legal arrangement. Not one of my strong subjects. There are many others of similar status.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As you've no doubt discovered, crofting is the way much of the farmed land was occupied after the Highland Clearances. Most rural scattered communities were formed by crofts. I think it's a pretty complex legal arrangement. Not one of my strong subjects. There are many others of similar status.
Sounds wonderful Bridget. Is your rendition online anywhere?
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sounds wonderful Bridget. Is your rendition online anywhere?
On the fresh side, 14 metres higher:
Loch Morar
Loch Morar
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
On the fresh side, 14 metres higher:
Loch Morar
Loch Morar
Two hours later the same evening
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Two hours later the same evening
Thank you for the reference. I didn't know that poem, but have now read it. Very poignant.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Thank you for the reference. I didn't know that poem, but have now read it. Very poignant.
Hard graft in a harsh environment. This, at Eorasdail on Vatersay, wasn't a clearance. Dates to early 1900s, abandoned about 60 years ago after they "forgot" to include it in the new road access on the island. There'd be a few holiday homes here now if they hadn't.
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2061785
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2061785
Ruined croft houses, Eorasdail © Gordon Hatton
Eorasdail was a crofting settlement set up by the Scottish Board of Agriculture in the early 20th century for landless people from elsewhere in the southern Outer Hebrides. Amongst settlers here was M...
www.geograph.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Hard graft in a harsh environment. This, at Eorasdail on Vatersay, wasn't a clearance. Dates to early 1900s, abandoned about 60 years ago after they "forgot" to include it in the new road access on the island. There'd be a few holiday homes here now if they hadn't.
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2061785
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2061785