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Donate to the Electronic Intifada!
They are doing amazing work and it’d be nice if everyone donated to celebrate Ali Abunimah’s relase from detention in Switzerland!! You can donate via – https://electronicintifada.net/
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Cats
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Kittens
I got kittens from the SSPCA! They are adorables!!
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The deer appear
I know there are deer, because I see their tracks and I see their poop. I see them occasionally but not very often, so I thought I’d set up a trail cam to see what they and other animals are up to. First time round, all I got was footage of Douglas the neighbour’s half-wildcat…
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A ritual centre in Moray?
This field between Bleachfield cottage and Leitchestown farm in Deskford, Moray, is most famous for the discovery of the Deskford carnyx (an Iron age war trumpet) around 1816. A labourer (great great grandfather of a man who lived in the cottage where I write this text) was digging for peat and came across fragments of the carnyx…
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Bobby Fingers
Wow this guy is quite the mad genius!!
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Durn Hill
This was a lovely solstice walk up durn hill for the first time, if a touch on the windy side. Getting there meant a drive via the carnyx find site and past Gaulcross. I parked at the quarry which is disused but it looks like Aberdeenshire council sometimes uses the site for storage, so don’t…
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Donate to the Moray Community Foundation
The Moray Community Foundation is a local charity founded in 2023 to support people in Moray when they come up against financial emergencies. Give today and help people who are currently experiencing a cost of living emergency. Anything you can give, no matter how large or small, will make a difference. To donate please complete…
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Rhynie and more
My heritage society comrade had doublebooked himself and hence could not join the excursion so we resecheduled and I went to visit the Pictish power centre of Rhynie instead. It did not disappoint! Before moving up here, I didn’t know much beyond the blue-painted dreadlocked warrior stereotype of the Picts. Unsurprisingly, things turn out to…
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Spicy library
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