A quote from Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter 2025 Even in the early phases of tenant reduction, during the seventeenth century, many of the dispossessed appear to have maintained a foothold in the local ...

Dr. Angus Sutherland on the Scotts of Buccleuch and the Ettrick clearances, in the current issue of the 'Scottish Literary Review'.
#EttrickForest, #SouthernUplands, #ScottishBorders, #ScottishHistory, #LandReform

#hillwalking #hillbagging #SouthernUplands #SUW

1:50k map extract showing route walked today.

Hillscape with clouds, and a glimpse of the Daer Reservoir.

Lovely weather today, some warm sunshine but enough of a breeze to keep the temperature down & the insects mostly away. 10.7k, 492m, 4h13, 3 new hills, 3 revisits. Sat about in the sun for ages over lunch on Hods Hill.

#hillwalking #hillbagging #SouthernUplands #SUW

1:25k map extract showing route walked today.

Landscape photo, Lowther Hills in the distance.

Ovine momento mori: 3 sheep's skulls on the ground.

Good to get out on some new hills at last, lovely day apart from the clegs 🪰. 11.4k, 450m, 3h36, 6 new hills.

#hillwalking #SouthernUplands #SUW

Save Todrig from Sitka spruce plantation Campaigning to protect nature and communities around Todrig from proposed Sitka spruce plantations, and to save the Southern Uplands.

Save Todrig from a Sitka spruce plantation:
#ScottishBorders
#SouthernUplands

sheep and lambs by the River Clyde

In the spirit of taking a break from all the doom to post a little loveliness:
new arrivals by the upper reaches of the Clyde... on a glorious Easter Sunday
#lambing2025 #southernuplands

Cairnsmore of Carsphairn and Beninner

#scotland #Galloway #stewartry #glenkens #hills #scenery #southernuplands #photography #gsabiosphere

Shared for #TrigpointTuesday

Minch Moor in the #SouthernUplands #Scotland

Seems I'm not the only one missing the snow this winter #sorethumb #mountainhare #southernuplands

Into the abyss... but what a day for it
#SouthernUplands #workworkwork #stormhour #loveukweather