On ferry for Arran and screening of Finland film in Whiting Bay Hall 7.30 tonight. Great sailing weather & after earlier cancellations the ferry is on time. Huzzah. Still tix for tonight & Prestwick Sunday. Largs sold out. lesleyriddoch.com/events
Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece.
Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging.
Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The Cullen Skink World Championships Traditional competition is underway!
#CullenSkink #cullenskinkworldchampionships#Cullen #cullen #discovercullen #moray #scotland
Very sorry to hear this shocking news Shirley. Best wishes to all at a very difficult time.
Some good coverage of an important ruling on the community right to buy to further sustainable development (found in Part 5 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016) in a local paper.
www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/2588528...
It is a wonderful song - but I will take your ‘tache comments under advisement.
Tomorrow, the UK's first community owned vet practice opens in Tiree. I am indescribably proud of this project, and the team of people who have made it happen. It's been a mission of epic proportions.
www.thenational.scot/comment/2585...
Not a new article, but an interesting read.
#IntentionalCommunities #Ecovillage
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Excellent and exciting opportunity for an experienced creative right here in Moray! Please feel free to share far and wide 🎭🎬✨
www.odtheatre.org.uk/careers for more info 🌟
Bergen, I would guess.
Shameful that we in Scotland rely on the work of one mostly un-funded person for so much of our still incomplete knowledge of our land, who owns it, and how it is owned.
One of our universities shd give him a lifetime fellowship with a stipend and funded access. And ScotGov - be more transparent!
Matt Damon with Ailie Flett, Hotel Manager, Seafield Arms Hotel in Cullen
With thanks to Matt Damon, Cullen and the Moray coast have been hitting the headlines this week.
"Hollywood superstar Matt Damon lavishes praise on ‘beautiful’ Moray village of Cullen"
“In particular, Cullen and the Moray coast was just beautiful.
Thanks for the lovely words about Wintersmith, Andy 🙏
@folkmylife.bsky.social
@mickpuck
NEW BLOG - "Community Ownership and Local Landed Power" exploring recent events in Glengarry and the interplay between community action and an influential local businessman. andywightman.scot/2026/01/comm...
You can catch the whole segment at the start of last night's Scotland Tonight on the STV Player - after all the party leaders got a short segment to set out their stalls. player.stv.tv/episode/4vor...
Moray Council approves the shortlist of projects for Moray-wide Just Transition Fund bid.
newsroom.moray.gov.uk/news/council...
Attended a joint meeting of Community Energy Moray and Zero Carbon Moray today to dicuss various projects including a substantial solar farm in the local area. Exciting times.
@energy4alluk.bsky.social #Moray #renewables
Image of Cullen Skink World Champions 2025 with the lord lieutenant of Banffshire
⚠️ Final Call ⚠️
Entries close for the 2026 Cullen Skink World Championships on 31.01.2026.
It's not too late to enter.
Full details at discovercullen.com/cullen-skink/
#CullenSkink
It was a pleasure to be able to lead a debate on Growing2Gether's work with young people after visiting some of the folk involved in Kinmylies last year.
This works, and we should do all we can to promote and support it 👇
We have a vacancy for a part-time COSS Adviser role covering the west coast of Scotland? This 3 day per week role will give you a chance to make a difference to communities considering taking on assets. Closing date Tuesday 27th January (noon) - dtascommunityownership.org.uk/about-coss/v...
Good luck. I once travelled from Forres (near Inverness) to Westray (island not far north of Orkney mainland) by train, ferry and bus and that took longer than 24 hrs.
Many thanks to John Reed for playing my song "High Force" from my newly released EP called the "Helm Winds". You can hear John's show "Compendium" again on MixCloud - I'm on around the 40min mark...
www.mixcloud.com/JohnReedBrea...
Compendium 246 Playlist:
www.mixcloud.com/JohnReedBrea...
Good news - it should trip community land ownership to over 3% of Scotland's land area - the communities along the Isle of Harris east coast villages, Northton in the west & the Isle of Berneray have secured community land trust funding.
www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/ar...
www.baysofharris.org
Today's earworm. I'm not familiar with #Discworld yet this is most evocative. Bravo @shirley-sings.bsky.social
Prophecies are symbolic. Unfortunately few [today] understand symbolism. We want something to be either true or false, with no shadings in between. We especially don't understand that something can be psychologically and spiritually true without being in any way literally true.~Robin Robertson
Reviving Scotland’s lost Zulus – an ambitious project based in #Ullapool.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2574971...
The remains of Findhorn’s fishing fleet, abandoned during WW1, can still be seen on the western short of #Findhorn Bay at low tide.
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Competition entries are now open for the Cullen Skink World Championships on Sunday 1st March.
You can enter online at discovercullen.com/cullen-skink/
Please email visit@discovercullen.com with all competition queries.
How a ‘dysfunctional’ English farm became a biodiversity hotspot - Positive News Isabella Tree & #KneppEstate www.positive.news/environment/...
That seized tanker, Marinera / Bella 1, in the Moray Firth, seen from far away, up a hill by a field in Forres, snow-capped mountains beyond and a field in the foreground.
It's still there.
#MorayFirth
