Neil Reid

Come on ScotGov, this is unforgivable - and stupid! Funding for paths, etc, has always been part of the agricultural funding farmers could bid for, since 2005. It’s a tiny proportion of the overall farming budget. If land managers can’t get £££, why should they pay for this public good themselves? 😡

A fine night for eight at Corrour with a braw fire thanks to the MOs' coal and two other guests with the foresight (and shoulders!) to take in extra logs. Bothy TV, a wee dram and some great blethers: what it's all about.
#Cairngorms #Bothylife

At my age it was always touch and go.

Remember: we'll all be expecting sunshine and picnic weather for Wednesday.

Scene of the crime There’s not, to be honest, much of a view from the site. The foreground is all low-growing heather and heath, with a couple of rounded heathery hills framing an unremarkable glen disappearing down …

From a lonely place to die to views to die for. The murder of Sgt Arthur Davies. #Cairngorms
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A fascinating paper on recent Mesolithic archaeology in the #Cairngorms. I was lucky enough to attend a couple of the digs & even found a couple of wee flints. Exciting discoveries & interpretations, & who knows what else there is to uncover. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

Euan Philipps, head of media at Labour Against Antisemitism, adopted a Jewish sounding name to file antisemitism complaints to Labour.

The activities of this faux Jewish activist encapsulate the absurdity of the antisemitism hysteria under Corbyn👇
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Braw views from Meall a Bhuachaille.

Hope you get many more bonus hills then. I've stopped bothering about climbing at other people's pace, and go a lot better and further at my own (slower) speed.

Climb each hill like it’s your last The picture shows an old man lying in the heather looking across a loch at a great cliff face. The cliff is the massive Creag an Dubh Loch and the man is Dod Thomson, a bothy pal of many years stan…

A lesson learned and a day of utter joy in the #Cairngorms.
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Yes, in the Cairngorms, and beautiful austerity is exactly it. Exact locations described in the alt text for the photos.

Near the top of Sron Riach of Ben McDui

Looking through cloud into the massive complexity of the Garbh Choire

Big sky over the granite and grit landscape of the McDui plateau

The cliffs of Coire Sputan Dearg of Ben McDui

One of those perfect days. Several times almost moved to tears by the beauty.

Muirburn should be banned - yet the @snp.org Scottish Government don't even have the guts to enforce the licensing system they claim to have agreed.

I think I just need some hope.

Fergus Ewing was practically up their rear end. Maybe the rest are just running scared, but they're letting control of the country be taken away from the people while they dither about asking nicely for a referendum. We're going backwards rather than forwards.

The SNP have always been in the pocket of the landowners, feart to say boo to them. I still want independence but have to seriously consider giving my vote to any party willing to control the landowners and their minions.

I still think the campfire ban in the @cairngormsnews.bsky.social Cairngorms National Park is right, but it's long past time landowners were held to account too and made to behave responsibly themselves.

Congratulations! - on the bairn, the book and your dedication to the cause.
But most of all for young Mr or Ms Featherstone when they come. A whole new field of guiding for you.

Just published 🙂 I've been wanting to write about the rut for years but never had the piccies to back it up till last autum 🦌. It certainly helps when it's happening right outside your house.

Looks interesting, but not sure I could help. My navigation too often consists of wandering aimlessly, getting lost, then using relocation skills. 😳

This happened last week. Last week! A British MEP pleading guilty to accepting bribes to promote Russian interests. Why has this not been headline news all over the media?

Given that these people can reasonably be seen as Israel's agents in Britain, surely all members should be charged with both treason and assistance to genocide.

Fascist.

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Remember: God is American, so uses American time zones. Better get those clean pants back on for a few hours yet.

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I'm surprised they didn't, but don't know all the circumstances.

Always interesting to catch up with what Mountaineering Scotland have been up to. Read their annual report here.
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🤣I'm thinking of suggesting a second storey. I'm sure the MBA would go for that.

Watercolour painting of a mountain bothy painted on an Ordnance Survey map of the relevant area. #Corrour Bothy #Cairngorms

So thrilled and moved to receive this for my birthday. It's a lovely piece of art in its own right, but especially important to me because I've known Corrour Bothy for almost 60 years and been privileged to help look after it for almost 20.
#CorrourBothy #Cairngorms