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Peat iron and spade #WetlandsDay.

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Each lettered and numbered post is a point on Bankhead Moss, Fife where water levels are monitored.

Peat/burn.

Scarlet lichens ablaze on the frozen moss.

Mountains like molehills. Assynt from the North Lewis moor.

Polluting plastic is in the news. But to whom do you point the blame? Here’s some on Flanders Moss, left by well intentioned conservationists.

Skiers heading for Glencoe and the Nevis Range last Saturday created a six mile tailback across the desolate Rannoch Moor, one of Scotland’s largest blanket bogs.picture copyright Alastair Burgess/ Sunday Post 21st Jan 2018

“…Wi’ a’ this care and a’ this grief,
And sma’, sma’ prospect of relief,
And nought but peat reek i’ my head,
How can I write what ye can read?
Tarbolton, twenty-fourth o’ June,
Ye’ll find me in a better tune;
But till we meet and weet our whistle,
Tak this excuse for nae epistle.”