…peat, wood, coal, shale oil and now wind have all been harvested for fuel in this landscape…

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…it’s on her parent’s farm and was cut commercially until fairly recently…

When I asked my colleague Caroline to look at something on my iPad at work today she asked, “Its not another picture of a bog, is it?” (It wasn’t but here’s one now).

Creel, tweed, stack: echoes of the peatlands live on (doggedly) within our lives.

Billy and stack of children.

Moor lines.

Stacks of shields on Trajan’s column. Joe has asked if he can have a tortoise.

 

Book of matches. Naw, they are. Matchboxes shaped like books.

Peaty window display, @WhiskyCastle whisky shop, Tomintoul.