Times change as do our perceptions of Scottishness. My great, great, great grandfather on 30th November: “…An’ ilk St.Andrew’s Day he maks a feast, An’ drinks yer health twal times or mair at least.”
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As the season changes the blinding mists of winter roll in over the transient moor on the high peatlands
As the season changes the blinding mists of winter roll in over the transient moor on the high peatlands.
Resurrection on South Uist
In the cemetery at Hallam on South Uist the dead have names and, occasionally, portraits. Their stones face eastwards over the autumn bronze peatlands to the rising sun and the hope of future resurrection. Below the modern graveyard an ancient one amongst the hummocking Atlantic sand-dunes. Over three thousand years ago peat mummified ancestors were resurrected by the anonymous Bronze Age islanders.
Celtic cross, Hallan Cemetery, South Uist
Atlantic Ocean beach at Hallam, South Uist
Passage from “Into The Peatlands” au Cladh Hallam, South Uist
Mumified skeleton, Cladh Hallam, South Uist
My moorland journey ‘Into The Peatlands’ continues tomorrow evening at Blairgowrie
My @bookweekscot moorland journey #IntoThePeatlands continues tomorrow evening at 7:30pm StCatharines Community Centre, Blairgowrie @bookmarkblair Looking forward to seeing you there @BirlinnBooks Tickets here: http://www.bookmarkblair.com/tickets.php 
Returning First World War servicemen were denied land promised to them.
The theme of this year’s @BookWeekScot is “rebels” On the peatlands returning First World War servicemen and their families were denied land promised to them. In a series of ‘land raids’ they secured the crofts promised to them, this memorial at Gress, Isle of Lewis celebrates their victory.
Very much looking forward to Book Week Scotland events in Dundee, Blairgowrie and Benbecula
Very much looking forward to Book Week Scotland events in Dundee, Blairgowrie and Benbecula.
Absolutely thrilled that ‘Into The Peatlands’ has been longlisted for the Highlands Book Prize!
Absolutely thrilled that ‘Into The Peatlands’ has been longlisted for the Highlands Book Prize!
Preserved because of domestic peat cutting
The environmental cost of peat cutting? What about the cultural cost of not? All these artefacts in National Museum Edinburgh preserved because of domestic peat cutting 
Adabrock treasure, Isle of Lewis; Ballachulish Goddess, West Highlands; Blackburn Mill treasure, East Lothian.
Next Tuesday at 7.00pm…
Next Tuesday at 7.00 pm I’ll be at @falklandestate to talk about my book #IntoThePeatlands with the wonderful @agentjenny of @JennyBrownBooks Warmed spiced apple juice from the Falkland orchard, books by @Wstones_Perth Join us! 
Delighted to find ‘IntoThePeatlands’ in NHBS catalogue
Delighted to find ’IntoThePeatlands’ in NHBS Christmas Catalogue. If you’ve never checked out their lovingly curated natural history titles I thoroughly recommend you do.
Robin A Crawford 