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The Morning Chirp's avatar

Beautifully written! You brought Scotland to life across the world for me. Looks like I've got to start planning my trip there :)

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Felicity Martin's avatar

Thank you. This is just one corner of Scotland, which has great diversity of landscapes.

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Julia Goodfellow-Smith's avatar

Well, it’s clear that it’s time for change again - wouldn’t it be good if this time, ordinary people were to have agency. On another note, my recent photos from a North Wales research trip have a similar brown haze across the horizon from wildfires. I wonder whether we’ll be able to tell which year books were researched in from the pictures…

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Felicity Martin's avatar

Well, change is happening in places, though most of the big estates going into community hands are in the Hebrides.

I fear April wildfires are becoming a ‘thing’. Although last spring was wetter, we’ve been having more wildfires in April in recent years.

We used to expect a spell of dry sunny weather in May, but now that is often coming in April, before there is any green growth.

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Hayley's avatar

Beautiful photos and interesting facts, thankyou.

The motorhome parking spot looks so blissful.

And the mermaid photo is lovely!

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Felicity Martin's avatar

There are plenty of motorhome friendly places on that coast.

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Angie Dawn's avatar

Lovely photos, Felicity. I haven't been to that area of Scotland (not much further north than Ullapool and Stornoway).

The history is both fascinating and tragic - both of the people and the landscape. It is stunningly beautiful, though.

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Felicity Martin's avatar

Thank you. It’s too often missed because the A9 is quite a fast road - easy to speed past all the villages - and it’s not considered as ‘pretty’ as the northwest coast.

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Carol Kubicki's avatar

Thank you for taking me back to the northeast and in such good weather! We hiked up Morvern some years ago and I still have vivid memories of that day.

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Felicity Martin's avatar

Hello Carol. Thanks. I’d forgotten what a tough little peak Morvern is but then my legs are four years older than when I climbed it previously.

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Amy's avatar

Fascinating history, it is hard to imagine living through such a violent upheaval, yet the powerful amongst us seem frequently determined to repeat such atrocities.

The trip itself looks beautiful, though. I love your photo of the Mermaid of the North.

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Felicity Martin's avatar

I’m afraid mankind (I deliberately use that word rather than humankind) seems capable of inflicting great hurt on other people. You just have to look around the world now! So much driven by greed and egos.

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Andrew Thompson's avatar

‘manunkind’ might be better?

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Ronnie Hughes's avatar

Ben Bhraggie would look a sight better without that statue up there. Or are the family still in possession of the land?

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Felicity Martin's avatar

There have been mutterings for years about taking it down. But it is massive! It’s on estate land, but I don’t know who owns it now.

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