Young Janet Dalrymple was forced by her ambitious family to abandon the man she loved and marry another. Their wedding night didn’t exactly go to plan!
Does anyone know what these wee lumps are? I see so many of them on coastal walks around #Scotland. Always on the skyline and near the top of grass-covered rocky outcrops. They seem to be similarly sized - a few inches in diameter and a few inches high
I've asked plenty of people who are generally knowledgeable about nature, but none of them know what causes them. Some interesting speculation, though
It's funny when you look back through your images folders and find a strange image totally out of context.
No idea when I took it, where I took it, or what on earth is going on 😲😄
So it’s a week since the Aurora. This panorama is from last Friday night and is a stitch of sixteen shots taken randomly towards the general direction. The actual Aurora covered the sky from around east to southwest so the only way to get the full arc with the zenith and the columns was by doing this panorama. For the nerds this was stitched with shots using a 16mm FF lens at f2.8, ISO400 and 5 second exposures #Aurora#Aberdeenshire#Scotland#StillPinchingMyself
@alanferrier Portugal is over 90% renewables and the cheapest electricity in europe
The UK is blessed with huge renewable potential (esp in #Scotland) , nuclear isnt available in the short term and in the long term shouldnt be necessary
There are quicker, cheaper, greener, safer options
It's so sad. I have a couple of yellow azalea bushes (Ròs-chraobh - Rhododendron luteum) outside the kitchen window. As the name suggests they produce lovely yellow flowers. However, the flowers only ever last about a week, before they droop-down and fall off.
The bumblebees are making the most of it as I type. So, there is that.
The National’s content editor was standing roughly 100m from the demonstration when he was confronted by an officer who claimed he was being “obstructive to the police”.
The encounter was recorded. The officer claimed he didn’t have “free roam to go about protest sites” and suggested he could be arrested under Section 20 of the #Police and Fire Reform Act.
The Dunmore Pineapple, one of Scotland's most remarkable buildings. Perhaps the largest stone pineapple anywhere, its top stands 45ft above the level of the walled garden to its south. It was built as a birthday present in 1761. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/airth/thepineapple/index.html
"#Scotland wasn’t mentioned once in [UK] Labour’s big pre-election pitch today [16/5/24].
"[Neither in] Starmer’s 2,631 word speech. Nor the hefty 5,724-word press release which included comments from the likes of Ed Milliband and Yvette Cooper.
"... neither Wales nor Northern Ireland were mentioned either."
Forgot to upload any phone photo from our #cruise on the day we were anchored near South Queensferry, #Scotland. We ditched our original plan to head to Edinburgh with the masses and instead booked a local boat trip out under the three bridges (Forth Road and Rail, and Queensferry Crossing) and then to Inchcolm Island where we explored the 13th century abbey and engaged in a battle of wills with the population of angry gulls around.
Idyllic Kishorn in Wester Ross, with the mountains of the Applecross peninsula in the background. What was at the time the largest movable object ever made by man, the 600,000 tonne Ninian Central Platform, was built nearby in 1978. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kishorn/kishorn/index.html
Here's an alternate view of the same falls, taken from the same spot. They're the Falls of Dochart, and they run through the small village of Killin. They are lovely.
For a sense of completion, here's a normal photo of the same view. You can wander all over the falls on the left hand side, and when I was young it was the most exciting and magical place to play.
Portugal is crushing it: renewables met 91% of Portugal’s electricity needs in the first 4 months this year & have pushed their⚡️prices to a 4 yr low!
Renewables are carrying an increasing % of their electrcity demand in the first 4 months in 2024:
95% April
91% March
88% Feb
81% in Jan
Portugal’s rapid transition is evidence it can be done: renewables are up from 27% in 2005 & 54% in 2017 with their last coal power plant shut down in 2021. #nature#environment#renewables#earth
@renewable_energy and on top of that, energy companies are now paying anything from 40p down to ONE pence a unit for sustainable energy fed into the grid from domestic solar panels...You can probably guess where on that payment spectrum most of those rates sit 🙄