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Advent: my journey through the moorland year… in the winter wood, a grim dark tower. Slowly I climbed the snow-whitened stairs… #IntoThePeatlands @BirlinnBooks

Advent: my journey through the moorland year… the day I nearly became a bog body #IntoThePeatlands @BirlinnBooks

Advent: my journey through the moorland year… what to get the children for Christmas, something for the train set or #lego?

Advent: my journey through the moorland year… transformation of landscape into book.

Advent: my journey through the moorland year. MacBeth met the witches on the moor, on Blairdrummond Moss Janet MacBeath met Benjamin Franklin.

Advent: my journey through the moorland year… @DonaldMurray56 it has been a pleasure that our paths have, and will continue to cross in 2019 @WaterstonesStA @edbookfest

Advent: my journey through the moorland year. Highlight has been listening to the stories of peatland people #IntoThePeatlands @BirlinnBooks

Advent: my journey through the moorland year. Venture #IntoThePeatlands and discover a paradise of flora @BirlinnBooks

Advent: my journey through the moorland year. Peat banks/ food banks- fuel poverty and the alleviation of poverty are everyday issues in the peatlands as well as in urban Scotland.

Advent: my journey through the moorland year. On the ‘bird’s road’ (rathad an isein, in Gaelic) I encountered wrens and skuas; hoodie crows and corbies; golden plovers and eagles; geese, gannets and guillemots; herons, flamingos; corncrakes and curlews.