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Image Wordless Wednesday – An Invitation

Published on: June 29, 2016February 9, 2023 by Croft Gardener 9 Comments 9 Comments
Ardivachar gateway

The Quest – Lost and Found

Published on: June 22, 2016February 9, 2023 by Croft Gardener 14 Comments
East coast Harris, Shiant Islands

I promised I would tell you the story of the Reclaimed by Nature photograph – so if you’re sitting comfortably….. Himself was asked to undertake a mission on behalf of the Lost and Found Fungi Project to try to find Peltasterinostroma rubi  a fungus which was first recorded on bramble near Molingeanais (Molinginish) on the

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Travellers’ Tales

Published on: March 3, 2016February 8, 2023 by Croft Gardener 11 Comments
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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru Venturing across the Minch and driving across the Highlands through Glen Shiel and Glencoe in the February may not

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January Miscellany – Gusting Gertie and Hebridean Homilies

Published on: January 29, 2016February 9, 2023 by Croft Gardener 18 Comments

I have had an usually Himalayan mountain to paperwork to keep me chained to the desk this winter, so while we were plague-stricken I sent my muse on holiday with instructions not to return until Easter. However, I got bored with government forms and computer manuals and summoned her back. So bulletins from the Croft

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Rediscovering the Magic

Published on: December 25, 2015February 12, 2023 by Croft Gardener 32 Comments
Moon image International Space Station

The plague flag has been flying from the gate of the croft for the last 10 days and we’ve been confined to the house by the weather and self-imposed quarantine. The winter solstice supper was cancelled along with the Christmas Eve lunch with friends. The croft kitchen has been eerily quiet, just the bubbling of

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