Annie Worsley

“We visited a museum with written accounts by people whose grandparents lived and worked here, in Finsbay, Quidinish, Manish, Geocrab and other townships. The way of life with all the hardships and traumas remembered. History within living memory. Their ghost voices were profoundly moving.”

Thank you for sharing my wee blog ☺️

Thank you, Deborah. You are very kind 😊

My pleasure Tracy. Callainish should have been included here but I'll keep that for another day 😉

You are very kind Jen 😊
I wish!!!

Finding Ghosts Early in October, after a big storm, we crossed the Minch to the Outer Hebrides. The ferry sailed across a peppermint ice-cream sea, rising and falling in great stomach-churning swoops, as waves sw…

A ghost post for Samhain.
Happy Halloween 😊
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Good morning.

Red sky warning.

Praying for peace everywhere.

View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.

"The North wind doth blow
And we shall have snow..."

First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).

View from South Erradale ❄️

What a photo!

Yes! Next time! Hugs to you all 🥰

Late afternoon, yesterday.
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.

View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye

A quiet weather day the forecaster said.

Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.

But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉

No, I'm in the NW Highlands of Scotland.
Yes, I've seen the frog (and other animal) protests against Trump, ICE etc

Thank you 😊

Oof no. I poked it. Another explanation is that it's goo from a frog's innards expelled by a bird who ate one for lunch.

One explanation I quite like is that it's from outer space and is often found after a meteor shower or when a comet comes to town!

Oo possibly, thank you!

Hello nature chums. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊

This is a lovely wee film from @clareshaw.bsky.social & Anna Chilvers. It captures the magic and profound beauty of bogs & moors really well.
Enjoy!

#TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now

#naturewriting #peatbogs

To read a post like this is wonderful. To think my words have touched these hearts (& the hearts of many others who've written, emailed & posted over the past 2 yrs) is truly humbling. Thank you @mamafoo2000.bsky.social, thank you 😊

This is the real power of #naturewriting

Thank you so much for this, Alison. I, in turn, can't express how this makes me feel.To think my writing has had such an impact is quite overwhelming.
Slàinte mhath.
With love to you both 😊

Oh my, I'm so happy and so humbled to read this about your mum. "Medicine for her soul". Wow. Windswept has found its true home. Please give her a special hug from me. And I hope she feels much better very soon 🥰

Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines.

For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social

I love Paris 🥰
Get well soon!

Exactly, yes. My son (living in Paris with wife and children) has said the same.
Hope you're ok?
Happy weekend 😊

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Absolutely. It's almost as if they don't know what's going on 🤔
I should laugh really...
But what I'd like to see/hear is an explanation plus I'd like to read the science and epidemiology underpinning the decision-making. Academic papers etc

I feel your pain. Same for me. Suddenly, without explanation. No COVID jab.

Unless we pay.

Mother Nature eh!! I just point and click 😊

It's the red dawn of a brand new day. So far it is cool, calm and collected.
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.

Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰