Ranald

Happy new year to you all. Thanks for all the comments of late. I will get round to replying when I get home. Right now I am using my mobile phone and am in the Highlands. It is snowing, heavily. Great for photos but we haven’t been able to move far. It is also cold, it hot down to -17 the other day. My lens kept frosting over. Goodness only knows why the diesel wasn’t frozen.
More soon if I c…

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Since it’s the 30th of November, I thought I’d extend St Andrew’s Day wishes to all of you.

Hope the forthcoming 12 months is good.

Hey wow! My picture of one of my favorite places in the Borders (Witchie Knowe) was printed (ye, printed) in The Scotsman newspaper on Wednesday 25th March. Needless to say, I didn’t buy the paper that day!!!!

Anyway, it appears online as the 7th picture in the slideshow so I am still chuffed.

Woo hoo!!! Kilchattan dawn was featured on the BBC Scotland website “Your pictures of Scotland” gallery for this week. I submitted it last night so they work fairly quickly.

Robert Burns, 250 today! Campaigner and activist, he wrote against slavery with works such as “A man’s a manfor a’ that” and “Slave’s lament”.

So, here’s to the man who wrote “To a Louse” (the laste stanza is superb) and the song sung the world over at Hogmany, Auld Lang Syne.

To a Louse
Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly;
I canna …

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Well, another wildlife crime to report I am affraid. This time, government and Reporter instigated.

Donald Trump has been given consent by John Swinney MSP (John.Swinney.msp@scottish.parliament.uk) to rape the dunes of Balmedie beach and build 500 houses, a hotel, holiday homes and 2 golf courses. The environment is not as important as profit it seems.

Laughingly, Donald Trump claimed t…

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