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Deer stalking in Scotland........necessary and humane (Monday, December 28, 2020 - 14:31)
Red deer stagJust before the first Covid19 lockdown in March last year  I posted a blog about Scotland having too many deer after a doubling of our deer population in the last 60 years Too many...
UK Government obsessions, incompetence and corruption - Covid19 economic and health disaster (Sunday, November 1, 2020 - 12:48)
This post is a letter to my cousin Ian in California (and my American friends ), we contact each other about once a month on family and other matters. It's to assure him that Americans aren't alone ,...
Scotland's native pinewoods........... an alternative to Munro Bagging for "crumblies" (Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 10:58)
If like me you feel you are getting too old and slow for "Munro bagging", the obsessive  pursuit of walking all of Scotland's 282 mountains over 914.4m (3,000 ft) there is an attractive...
Lynx re-introduction to Scotland ........ Kintyre and E. Aberdeenshire the most suitable landscapes. (Monday, September 21, 2020 - 11:10)
Lynx kittenFifty years ago on a hot, still, blackfly and mosquito infested afternoon  in northern Quebec I came across two lynx kittens sleeping in the sun on a big flat rock beside the...
Was Boris Johnson hiding in a former Youth Hostel on the Applecross Peninsula last week? (Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 11:41)
 Last week the "Daily Mail" broke the story that our Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfefell Johnson was hiding from the chaos his lack of competent governance has created in a cottage ...
How will the Scottish government deal with UK government's no deal?..... Virtual meeting with our MP next week..... (Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 11:21)
 One of the unexpected side effects of Covid19 lockdown here on the peninsula is that many of us have learned to use video conferencing. So, next week we have a ZOOM meeting with Kate...
Led by donkeys.... Covid19 exposes the truth (Friday, May 15, 2020 - 13:45)
For the last four years I have been trying to work out how and why Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and why Boris A. P. Johnson  persuaded more than half of voters that we...
Lock down week 7; at last the adults are in charge... (Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 11:08)
On Saturday Tobermory was still and quiet; we were still keeping our distance there were no visitors, no cruise ships, I had the ferry, "Loch Tarbert" to myself again and the inshore fishing boats...
Did you enjoy your Dinosaur eggs for breakfast? (Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 09:16)
First find a mouseHens (chickens in the USA) are highly intelligent, they can negotiate complex mazes in return for rewards, they learn quickly, for example they expect me to be out there in the late...
Wildlife watching from "Ranger Hamza's" sitting room window. (Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 10:29)
Wild goats where they should be... not in townIt's quiet out there with very few people about and wild animals are moving into urban spaces.Today's "Guardian" newspaper has a photo of a gang of...

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