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Islands in the Stream
Bog problems: continuing the encounter with Rannoch Moor [1500 words, 6 mins
Sep 24
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Ronald Turnbull
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Crossing bogs
Encounters with quagmires, morasses, bogs, fens, flows, sloughs and other soggy bits. [1600 words 7 mins
Sep 17
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Ronald Turnbull
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Emily Bronte and the Bog Burst of 1824
A near-death experience for two little girls may have helped inspire 'Wuthering Heights'. [1800 words 7 mins
Jul 30
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Ronald Turnbull
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Theological bogs
The one landscape feature that embodies absolute evil… [1400 words 6 min
Apr 30
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Ronald Turnbull
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Egdon Heath – a fictitious moorland in Dorset
It takes a hardy soul to cross the bleak moorland – a Thomas Hardy soul… [1500 words 7 min
Oct 30, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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Beauty and the Bog
On Friday Sutherland’s Flow Country achieved UNESCO World Heritage status [1100 wprds. 5 min
Jul 30, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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A Weight of Beauty
Mountaineer WH Murray crosses Rannoch Moor. And I do too. [1400 words, 7 mins
Jul 17, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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Lost on Rannoch Moor
Why do sensible people make silly decisions? The story of the seven railway surveyors, with their two umbrellas, who set out across Rannoch on the last…
Jan 24, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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T S Eliot on Rannoch Moor
Was TS Eliot a poet of the Scottish Highlands? Apparently, he was. ‘Rannoch by Glencoe’ has been considered as his only great short lyric. Even if he…
Dec 13, 2023
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Ronald Turnbull
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