The cut peat is all sacked up and ready to be brought home from the moor. 
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When looking into the peaty waters of the boggy pool it is often yourself you see reflected
When looking into the peaty waters of the boggy pool it is often yourself you see reflected.
two weeks today, appearing @edbookfest
Two weeks today, appearing @edbookfest with @DonaldMurray56 #IntoThe Peatlands @BirlinnBooks. Garden Theatre 11:00-12:00, super excited! 
There are sheds… and then there are peatlands sheds
There are sheds… and then there are peatlands sheds. 
Sphagnum
sphagnum moss.
#peatland illustrations
#peatland illustrations. 
It takes about a year for 1 mm of peat to form…about the same speed as my homemade jam is taking to set
It takes about a year for 1 mm of peat to form…about the same speed as my homemade jam is taking to set.
Marvelling at the intense colour when making jam with blackcurrants from my garden. In the peatlands similar big metal pots would simmer over peat fires with moor gathered lichens, crottal and plants to produce intense colours to dye the wool for weaving into tweed
Marvelling at the intense colour when making jam with blackcurrants from my garden. In the peatlands similar big metal pots would simmer over peat fires with moor gathered lichens, crottal and plants to produce intense colours to dye the wool for weaving into tweed. 
re-colonising.
Even on the arid desert of the commercial peat bog, amid the bleached remains of ancient birch trees, the cottongrass sedges are re-colonising.
Rain at last
Rain at last. The sphagnum mosses are doing whatever mosses do when they dance and sing with joy. 
Robin A Crawford 