Rachel Dominy

Couldn’t agree more. Love this little museum …

Unst Boat Haven. The image shows the well-lit interior of a large shed-like building. Aboud half a dozen boats are placed in the shed on a simulated stony beach. There are two mannequins, and the walls are covered in exhibits.

Inside the amazing Unst Boat Haven on Unst in the Shetland Islands: one of the most attractive and interesting museums in Scotland and well worth the trip from Shetland's Mainland to see, along with Unst's other attractions. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Shetland #Unst

Bobbie the blue merle labradoodle is reclining on a cushion, looking at the camera with clear brown eyes. She looks calm and beautiful.

Look at our beautiful girl. ♥️

The best boy 😍

Snow poles installed on a gravel track in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. Nighttime view, with the light being reflected by the poles. Some snow remains on the verges.

The snow was deep enough that the local farmer struggled to see where the track was when he cleared it for us - and, fine fellow that he is, he suggested putting up snow poles.

This surely unlocks another level of wilderness living 😁

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

Found myself thinking this is very cool. I clearly am not. At all cool.

Bobbie the blue merle Labradoodle with snow on her face. Wearing an olive-coloured NonStopDog coat. In the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.

Ears flying, Bobbie the blue merle Labradoodle shakes snow off her face in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.

Bobbie the blue merle Labradoodle running in deep snow wearing an olive NonStopDog coat in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.

Can you tell Bobbie the Labradoodle loves burrowing in the snow?

Tomintoul 52cm, Durris 31cm, Loch Glascarnoch 27cm, Aboyne 25cm, Dyce 22cm and Fettercairn 22cm.

Snow depths continue to build across our observation network, here are the latest stats ❄️❄️❄️

Properly snowed in. 🪏⛷️

A bright white circle of light shines through bare branches in a cloudy night sky. A house roof blanketed with snow and a snow-capped chimney stack.

The Wolf Moon and Jupiter just showing themselves through the wintry sky.

Snow depths of the UK today. 37cm Tomintoul, Loch Glascarnoch 23cm, Aboybe 22cm, Dyce 20cm, Aviemore 15cm and Tullch Bridge 13cm.

Snow depths are building across our observation network, here are the latest we have had today ❄️❄️❄️

Sounds good to me. Happy New Year Sam x

1. Peel a pack of sausages. 2. Unwrap pre-rolled flaky pastry. 3. Combine the two. 4. Cook for 40 minutes.

Homemade sausage rolls.

Disproportionately rewarding.

Glorious walk this morning …

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!

A black Labrador carrying a deer antler in moorland in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland

Bear the black Labrador fulfilling his mission in life: see something; pick it up; carry it home.

A six-foot Scots pine we had to remove to stop its roots buggering up the drain leading to the septic tank. Xmas 2025

The top of a fir tree that blew down during a conveniently timed storm. Xmas 2024

Last year's Christmas tree was the top of a fir that had been blown off in a storm.

This year's is a self-seeded (Scots?) pine whose roots were threatening a drain.

Waste not, want not. 😁

Hello! I think we’d say a Labrador. Bobbie is amazing and we love her to bits. Bear is a lot easier though! As you’d expect I guess of a lab. X

A snowy scene with layers of hills and mountains in the background. A winter sun glimpsing through grey clouds. Just visible at the foot of the hills are snow clad roofs of the Tomintoul distilerry. And in the forefront soft rolling snow with the tops of grasses breaking through.

November going out with a quiet splendour. A morning walk out of the back door and into the Cromdale Hills. Tomintoul distillery hunkered down in the valley.

Ever-changing light in the Cairngorms this morning.

We shed as we pick up. [farewell to the master]

This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.

This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.

open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

3 dogs of different sizes and colours are looking out of a window in a conservatory. Closest is Bobbie a black and white labradoodle Then Bear - now the biggest - a black lab. And George the border terrier.

Pesky pheasants in the garden. (Although Bobbie the labradoodle is actually focussed with adoration on the workshop where her favourite person is doing tractor maintenance…)

A black and white photo of a black Labrador and a blue merle Labradoodle play-fighting on a grey sheepskin rug.

Ever wondered what a Labrador and a Labradoodle look like play-fighting on a sheepskin rug?

Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky

The Cairngorm mountain range from the Old Military Road between Tomintoul and Grantown-on-Spey.

Sunset over the hills in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. Shadowy trees in the foreground.

Not a bad sunset.

Waiting for our best person … 🥰

Stone-lined drainage ditch in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.

Uncovered a stone-lined drainage ditch, complete with a culvert that we think marks the location of the old track.

The guy who used to farm here, who is 77 and has lived in the glen his whole life, hasn't ever seen it, so it must be 100+ years old.

Geeky I know, but I love this kind of thing.

Bear the black Labrador in a woodland setting with moorland behind, blue skies, and a freshly chopped log in front of him.

The big fella's been helping me chop wood.

#dogsofBluesky

A black Labrador puppy and a Labradoodle both wearing bandages on their left fore leg. Only the Labrador needs it...

Bear the black Labrador needs Tubigrip on his leg.

Bobbie made it clear she felt left out, so she's wearing one now too.

#dogsofBluesky