Sunday at The Meadows. Cherry blossom time.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

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Rude names, railways and a mass trespass - how the Peak District became a tourist attraction It became the UK's first national park 75 years ago, but has been attracting visitors for longer.

BBC News - Rude names, railways and a mass trespass - how the Peak District became a tourist attraction - BBC News
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The image shows a view across ornate formal gardens in the foreground to a stone wall, beyond which the gardens rise steeply to a fairy-tale castle in light stone sitting on top of a ridge. The castle is large and the angles have slim circular towers topped off with tall conical roofs. There are trees on the two sides of the frame. The scene is in subdued light. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top left corner.

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. The central characters stay at Dunrobin Castle as the story develops.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/ets/index.html

Loch Lomond from Firkin #LochLomond #Scotland #Trossachs www.damianshields.com

A quick reminder that I'll be running a walking tour in Glasgow next Sunday (26 April) starting at 10am and lasting 1.5 to 2 hours. It will be looking at the history and architecture of Buchanan Street and its surrounding areas.

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#glasgow #walkingtour #architecture #glasgowhistory

It's Saturday, so we're back with those old Anderston postcards. Now, best behaviour the lot of you, that big polis has just clocked us!…

The image shows a view from above its north-western end of the Kylesku Bridge. The roadway enters the frame in the bottom right and then curves to the right, with the bridge filling much of the frame before reaching the rocky far shore of the crossing in the upper right of the frame. The bridge stands on thin supports and the background scenery is rocky and mountainous. The sky is light blue. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top left corner.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west, with the Kylesku Bridge playing a part.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more:
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A double-dunter today for your delight and delectation.

It's October 13, 1898, and the corporation high heid yins and guests have all got gussied up for the inauguration of Glasgow's first electric tram service, running from Springburn to Mitchell Street in the city centre.

TV and vhs tapes

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

More of the mosaic decorated bollards in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. I love the colour they bring to the streets.

#glasgow #streetart #mosaics #woodlands #bollards

The image shows Stirling Castle from the west. The castle occupies a horizontal slice of the image about three-quarters of the way up. Below it are the cliffs it stands above and a broad swathe of the image is occupied by the trees cloaking the lower slopes of the rock. There is part of a field in the foreground. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle - seen here from the west - and more widely across Scotland during World War Two.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/has/index.html

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

The Jordanhill Cross, one of the @govanstones.bsky.social in Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. It's the lower section of a celtic-style cross and is decorated with a figure on horseback and geometric knotwork designs.

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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #govan #govanstones #scottishhistory

Six people removing turf from a ruin close to a burn in a mountain landscape.

We've been working at Ben Lawers this week on an ilicit whisky bothy and a shieling hut. Great location up the Lawers Burn close to Lochan nan Cat. #PioneeringSpirit

Excellent book by @kenlussey.bsky.social via @arachnidpress.bsky.social #booksky @undisscot.bsky.social

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Blairmore near Oldshoremore. The image shows a slightly downhill view over rough pasture and a stone wall to a line of four crofts and cottages, one of which is ruined. Beyond them the ground seems to drop away to the sea and more land is visible on the horizon. The sky is partly cloudy but the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the top right corner.

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced thriller set in northern Scotland. Oldshoremore in north-west Sutherland has an important role as the story develops.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-atw/ind...

Love this modern stained glass window in Woodside Library in Glasgow. Installed in 2024, it was created by Keira McLean working with members of Simy Community Development to highlight the lives of the Scottish suffragettes Helen Crawfurd and Jessie Soga.

#glasgow #stainedglass #woodsidelibrary

Peatland near Loch Ness to be restored in rewilding project Charities and private landowners are working on the scheme covering more than 1,000 hectares.

BBC News - Rewilding project aims to restore peatland near Loch Ness
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Cairn on mountain summit with snowy peaks behind

View from snowy slope to mist over distant glen

View over narrow loch with steep slopes

Snow gapped peaks beyond a tree-clad gully

Beautiful sunshine but still strong winds on Ben Tee yesterday - a real landmark of a Corbett above the Great Glen.

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Black & White seascape with black slate beach on left edge, a wave breaking on rocks in the middle distance & a huge storm cloud with dramatic wave breaking-like shapes within it taking up the top half of the frame

Scottish west coast weather brings gloriously dramatic scenes - the rain battered through Easdale Island and then marched up the Sound of Mull lit by a low evening sun #Scotland #ScottishWeather

This modern image shows a view across a cultivated field with green plants appearing above ground. In the lower right of the frame is a windowless two-storey square flat-roofed concrete building with ivy growing up part of it and the floor of a balcony on its left. The sun is coming from the right, leaving the face nearest us in shadow. In the distance the land rises to high rounded hills. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top left corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. RAF Wigtown has a central role in the book as the search for a spy builds towards its dramatic conclusion.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

Building stone of the Twentieth Legion which was found at Bearsden Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. The stone is part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland

A large rock with a large hole in it. A path leads through the hole.

Scotland is a country in which 90% of the geographical features have names incomprehensible to 97.5% of the population.
Life is simpler if you know Gaelic.

This is Clach Thoill. The name means Hole Rock.

This painting is titled "Sidekicks II" and was created by the American contemporary artist Michele Poirier-Mozzone. Based in Massachusetts, Poirier-Mozzone is known for her "Fractured Light" series, which explores the transformative effects of water and sunlight on the human form. This particular work is an oil on canvas piece that captures a unique underwater perspective, looking up toward the surface. Her work often emphasizes

This painting, "Sidekicks II" by Michele Poirier-Mozzone, is an oil on canvas from her Massachusetts-based "Fractured Light" series, exploring water and sunlight's effects on humans. It depicts an underwater perspective looking up.

Torwood Blue Pool, probably originally a colliery air shaft. The image shows an oblique view of a low circular brick structure that crosses the bottom half of the frame. It has vegetation around and beyond it and it lies within a forest with trees overhanging it. It is filled with water that has a lot of tree debris floating in it. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the top right corner.

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers about a haunting in central Scotland which features the mysterious Torwood Blue Pool.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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Rainbow over a dull sea.

It was one of those Sundays.

Film review – The North Whilst there have been quite a few quality films about climbing and mountaineering over the years, movies about walking are few and far between. Wild, the story of Cheryl Strayed's hike on the Pacific...

FILM REVIEW: THE NORTH
A feature film coming soon in cinemas about two friends walking the West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail?
Find out what we thought of Dutch director Bart Schrijver’s new film in the first ever film review on Walkhighlands.
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Loch Tarff from Carn an t-Suidhe #Scotland #Highlands #FortAugustus www.damianshields.com

The image shows a view down a slope to a broad glen with a large loch in it. On the far side rough ground climbs to the hilly skyline. On the down slope in the foreground, some distance from the viewer, is a roofless cottage comprising two gable ends and an internal divider, with window openings. It faces across the glen to the left. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in central Scotland and the far north-west. Sandwood Cottage plays an important part in the story.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/thr/index.html