Bleached bones of a 1500 year old birch tree on the arid desert of a commercial peat bog.

Lovely drying weather out on the #peatlands #SouthUist

Phew, heatwave continues. Peat stacks/camel stacks (drawing by Joe). 

Bogged down van, Tomintoul. 

been framing up some of my peat stack illustrations. 

Happy #BogDay 2 IntoThePeatlands 

Happy #BogDay #IntoThePeatlands

Gold diggers. Decorative spades used to cut the first turfs for Victorian railways, West Highland Museum, Fort William. 

I was privileged to join @LaurenParry on Kirkconnell Flow, Dumfries as she explained what lies preserved within the peat under our feet. You’ll be able read about peat’s magical ability to hold within itself the story of our past in my book #IntoThePeatlands, published in September.. 

… this was MacKinnon’s house. It is said he was so tidy and organised that he could find anything in his tool shed at midnight without having to put on the light. The delphiniums in his neat borders have survived the croft, his shed and himself.