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matrixrry · 2 years

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sometimes you lose your hope

#louis tomlinson #faith in the future #all this time #louis baby your lyric vids have typos #tress #what you do can get YOU home #i'm never!!!!!!!!!!! going to stop thinking about this song #and yes it's the cairngorms again :) as is my right :)#louis #fitf

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c-kiddo · 2 years

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hey !! i love your prose and writing style so much, and i was wondering if there were any other works/authors/books you had been inspired by or recommend !

oh aw :'-) thankyou !

hmm i need to read more honestly, but i can give a list of things that have been inspiring or a just really like: Small bodies of water - nina mingya powels, Annihilation (and the whole southern reach trilogy) - jeff vandermeer, My name is mina - david almond, The perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky, Tove Jansson's writing in general a lot (i rly like Moominpappa at sea, thats my favourite of the moomin books)... uhhh h hrm. its hard to remember books. these are graphic novels/comics but: This one summer - jillian & mariko tamaki, Susceptible - geneviève castrée.. also song lyrics by Mount Eerie for sure super inspiring to me, and maybe joanna newsom too but her lyrics are a bit too academic and reference-filled for me sometimes.. i am not academic lol, but i do like her music and imagery. Mount eerie's imagery is more visceral and raw combined with nature imagery (forest fires, yellow grass, a song from the wind or the moon). Oh also The living mountain by nan shepherd is a good book, its nonfiction and very much about the cairngorms but, the attention to detail is very nice, great descriptions of heather and deer and burns. i need to finish other books tbh.. lots of nature writing and things to get through. the main book im reading rn is Elatsoe by darcy little badger :-)

#asks #infodump a bit lol #also its not a book but the 2009 adaptation of where the wild things are will inspire me forever. i love the mood of it sm #i love how quiet and sad it gets lol #i love train-of-thought style books and being in a characters head #i love books that get reviews that are like 'this is slow and sad'

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mood-of-collapse · 2 years

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🎵 Jenny Sturgeon Lunchbreak Concert 📍 Cowdary Hall at 12.45pm on Thursday 24th November Jenny Sturgeon “brings together the old and new with a rare skill” (R2 Magazine). Her songs are bound together by common threads of nature and the connection people have within the landscape. The Living Mountain is a solo performance inspired by Nan Shepherd's celebrated book of the same name. The project explores Nan's writing, the Cairngorm mountain range and human connections with the wild through lyrical, melodic and visual interpretation. You can learn more about Nan Shepherd and her work in #ProvostSkenesHouse. More info >>> https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/whats-aberdeen-art-galleries-and-museums/jenny-sturgeon-singer-songwriter (at Cowdray Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClTkiwiKG5P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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sharedstoriescairngorms · 5 years

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National Poetry Day in the Cairngorms

Hooray! It’s National Poetry Day today!

For my five years at Kingussie High School library, this was always one of the highlights of my year, when we had poetry readings at lunchtime with drinks and biscuits. There was always a heart-thrilling mix of poems, including in other languages and, last year, in song.

The PE department demonstrating cross-curricular skills singing Bob Dylan’s ‘How…

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#Cairngorms Lyric #Cairngorms National Park #health walks #National Poetry Day #poetry

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mayeblade · 2 years

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so ride the rising currents

i trust that I will see you again 🌙💫✨

#houseki no kuni #cairngorm #art tag #lyrics: kkb-flyaway

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housekinokinny · 7 years

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If you had a single flaw You just could not last forever, could you?

#mod cairngorm #lyric edits #hnk phosphophyllite #hnk antarcticite #antarcticite x phosphophyllite #houseki no kuni kin

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pclysemia · 5 years

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For all of these writers, to use language well is to use it particularly: precision of utterance as both a form of lyricism and a species of attention. “I want my writing to bring people not just to think of ‘trees’ as they mostly do now,” wrote Deakin in a notebook, “but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree”. Muir, spending his first summer working as a shepherd among the pines of the Sierra Nevada in California, reflected in his journal that “Every tree calls for special admiration. I have been making many sketches and regret that I cannot draw every needle.” Strange events occurred in the course of the years and journeys I spent writing Landmarks – convergences that pressed at the limits of coincidence, and tended to the eerie. They included the discovery of a “tunnel of swords and axes” in Cumbria, guided by a Finnish folk tale; an encounter with a peregrine in south Cambridge on the day I went to look through Baker’s telescopes and binoculars; the experience of walking into the pages of Shepherd’s The Living Mountain in the Cairngorms; and the widening ripples of a forgotten place word, found in a folder in Suffolk, left behind by a man who had died. Strangest of all these strangenesses, though, was the revelation in the week I finished the book, that its originating dream of a glossary of landscape-language so vast it might encompass the world had, almost, come true.

robert macfarlane, the word hoard

#robert macfarlane #language #onomastics #nature and language #etymology #article

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phoslos · 6 years

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band au bc bandori but also finding fall out boy lyrics to work too well for phos...

Cairngorm on the drums bc yeah Ghost on bass Diamond can do keyboard/misc. & secondary vocals Antarc on main guitar (they would shred it don’t deny) & secondary vocals And Phos, of course, would have to be main vocals/second guitar.

Why isn’t Cinnabar playing? Because one) they’ve never rly been Phos’ partner (or biggest fan aka Dia) and two) consider them a fan that goes to the shows but is too shy/socially anxious to meet phos/the band

thanks for coming to my tedtalk

#phoslos txt

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onewayglass · 7 years

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Houseki no Kuni Exchange FAQ (updated 2/5/18)

I’m running a Houseki no Kuni exchange via Twitter, and here’s a bunch of your questions answered (plus some preemptive ones)

SIGNING UP/DEADLINES

Where do I sign up?

Here.

Do I need a Twitter account to do this?

I am running the exchange on Twitter, so it would surely be more convenient, but having other social media (IG, Tumblr) is fine so your gifter can post who their gift is for during reveals. If you don’t want to have any, sign up anyway and I’ll email you to figure something out.

When is the deadline to sign up?

sign-ups close on December 11th, 2017 at 11:59 PM PST

Is there any age restriction on this?

You must be 18+, since I am allowing the possibility of NSFW content

(”how can Houseki no Kuni bc NSFW? they’re just rocks!!” if you’ve been in fandom for as long as I have, rule 34 is not to be underestimated)

Can I edit my sign-up?

yes, you may edit your sign-up as many times as you want before the deadline. I believe I have added edit capability to the form. If not, DM me @ luzrovrulays on twitter.

When will I get my assignment?

I will try my best do have them matched up and sent out within 2 weeks after the sign-up deadline

When is my gift due?

Your gift must be posted by June 6th, 2018, 11:59 PM PST.

If you know you will have problems finishing it, please contact me at least two weeks prior, so I can set up a pinch hit.

I will also send check-in emails before the deadline to make sure everybody is making good progress, dates for those TBD

What is pinch hitting?

Pinch hitting is when one steps in to take on somebody else’s assignment because that person is unable to complete it.

Unfortunately pinch hitters do not get extra gifts if they take on extra assignments, so I’m eternally grateful if you volunteer to be one!! (as the sole mod with limited time, I can only pinch hit once)

The term comes from baseball.

Oh no, I missed sign-ups! Can I still participate?

Unfortunately, I cannot add late sign-ups to the pool, but pinch hitters are ALWAYS WELCOME, if you don’t mind not receiving a gift/just want to create something.

GIFT-RELATED

I allowed a wide variety of artistic mediums on the sign-up form so I’ll answer questions pertaining to those.

How do I gift somebody traditional art?

While traditional art is best enjoyed in person, not everybody is comfortable giving out their address to have it mailed to them, so please scan it in, or take a really good photo.

If, after reveals, the giftee wants the original physical copy and the gifter is willing to mail it, feel free to work out an arrangement.

Can I draw a comic instead of a picture?

Yes, definitely!

How long does my fic have to be?

There is no restriction on fic length - all that I ask is you put genuine effort into it and produce a gift you would be proud to give somebody!

< 1k oneshots can be great, so don’t feel compelled to make it long

on the other hand, if you feel super inspired to write a multi-chapter epic, go for it, but make sure you can finish your gift on time with quality you’d be satisfied with

How long does my poem have to be?

same applies for fic - no length restriction, just thought and effort

since poems tend to be shorter than fic in general, feel free to write multiple poems in different formats if that interests you!

Can you explain more in detail about photography-related gifts?

Sure! Cosplay photoshoots and aesthetic moodboards were two possible possibilities off the top of my head. If you have specific questions about other photography-related gifts, DM me on twitter @ luzrovrulays

For cosplay photoshoots, either pics of you (as the cosplayer) or ones you have taken of other cosplayers are fine, as long as every party involved (cosplayers, photogs, etc.) is okay with using the images for this exchange.

What are aesthetic moodboards? It’s difficult to explain in words, here’s a good example - a collection of images and text meant to evoke a character, ship, etc. I believe it can be used to fulfill prompts as well

Important things about making moodboards: PLEASE CHECK to see if the photos you are using are free to use - since this is an exchange I won’t be super strict on this, but SOURCE ALL YOUR IMAGES after your captions if they aren’t your own, and no, “google” isn’t an acceptable credit. DO NOT use fanart, unless the artist has given explicit permission to, and include a screencap of that permission in your credits section.

Any rules/restrictions on making screencap edits/gifs and AMVs?

I’d strongly recommend sticking to official art only (anime and manga footage). But if you have a fanart piece that you’re dying to use, provide a screencap of permission from the artist in a separate post.

I know editing can be hard work but make sure your gift fulfills the prompt somehow and isn’t just pretty/flashy.

What does ‘songs’ entail? Are fanmixes okay? How do we go about giving music as a gift?

For songs, I primarily meant originals, but I am also accepting covers of existing melodies with re-written lyrics to fill the prompts you are given (e.g. if you want to do Phos x Cairngorm-themed lyrics to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” that is acceptable)

I love fanmixes, but they aren’t included this time, sorry.

Record your song somehow. I’m not expecting everybody to own top-tier recording equipment, but make sure the quality isn’t overly scratchy - usually smartphones nowadays can record something semi-decent. If you have more specifc questions on how to capture and gift somebody a song, DM me.

Instrumental songs are also a-okay, but I think it is difficult to directly answer a prompt without lyrics. However, if you feel up to this challenge/have a lot of inspiration, by all means, go for it!

Are multimedia works and multiple gifts okay?

Definitely! If your giftee marks multiple categories for what they’d like to receive, feel free to mix them into one work!

If your giftee did not mark a medium you’re burning to create in, I’m not stopping you from making an extra piece, but do it after you’ve finished filling their request in the medium they requested.

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vacationsoup · 5 years

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New Post has been published on https://vacationsoup.com/wealden-literary-festival-a-fun-filled-weekend-for-all-the-family/

Wealden Literary Festival – a fun-filled weekend for all the family

A word to the wise... make a date in your diary for the last weekend of June when the Wealden Literary Festival springs into life in the enchanting setting of Boldshaves Garden just 15 miles from Barnfield House Kent. Now in its fourth year, this family-friendly festival fizzes with words, ideas, local food, arts and crafts, outdoor activities and creative workshops. Over the course of the weekend, renowned authors, poets, artists and makers will converge on this gorgeous corner of the Weald of Kent to share ideas and inspiration on nature, wilderness and the spirit of place. Both days are jam-packed with activities to keep all the family delightfully entertained as well as informed.

Book into workshops on creative writing with Tanya Shadrick (Wealden's writer in residence for 2019), botanical illustration with Emma Mitchen, natural dyeing with Francesca Baur, willow-weaving with expert basketmaker Julie Gurr, spoon carving with Jill Swan, bookbinding and design with Hope Fitzgerald ,Wealden's artist in residence for 2019, and – intriguingly – the mindful observation of sounds in nature with musical composer Laurence Rose.

Wander the gardens and woodland at Boldshaves in a wildlife safari Mark Cocker, celebrated naturalist and author of best-loved books about nature including Crow Country and Our Place. Learn firecraft with Phil from Badger Bushcraft or go foraging with Rural Courses founder Michael White.

Sip award-winning English sparkling wine hand-crafted by Woodchurch Vineyard made from grapes grown less than a mile away from the Festival site. Tuck into a rustic vegetarian feast served up by the Plant Pantry. And feed your spirit with daily meditation and yoga.

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Perhaps the heart of the festival is the opportunity to meet with authors and hear them in conversion or reading from their published works. Here are a few sessions that grabbed our attention.

29th June 11.45 – 12.45 PETER MARREN – EMPERORS, ADMIRALS AND CHIMNEY SWEEPERS: THE NAMING OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS Let Peter Marren take you on a journey back to a time before the arts and science were divided – when entomologists were also poets and painters, and when a gift for vivid language went hand-in-hand with a deep pre-Darwinian fascination for the emerging natural world. One of the country’s most celebrated naturalists and author of books including Chasing the Ghost, Bugs Britannica and Rainbow Dust, Marren's latest book Emperors, Admirals and Chimney Sweepers is the first comprehensive guide to the names of butterflies and moths.

29th June 15.00 – 16.00 LAURENCE ROSE & JULIAN HOFFMAN IN CONVERSATION: THE NIGHTINGALE’S SONG Learn about the unique songs and cultural significance of nightingales, the bird’s fragile future in Britain, and the nature of loss and possibilities for replenishment. The author of The Long Spring which examines the joints between nature, conservation and culture, Laurence Rose has been getting to know the nightingale population at Boldshaves in connection with his next book. Julian Hoffman’s latest book Irreplaceable: The Fight to save our Wild Places is an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them.

29th June – 16.00 to 17.00 EMMA MITCHELL – THE WILD REMEDY: HOW NATURE MENDS US The Wild Remedy is a truly unique book for anyone who has ever felt drawn to nature and wondered about its influence over us. Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression – or as she calls it, ‘the grey slug’ – for twenty-five years. After moving to the Cambridgeshire Fens some 15 years ago, she began to take walks in the countryside around her new home, photographing, collecting and drawing as she went. Each walk lifted her mood, proving to be as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical. In this beautifully hand-illustrated diary, she explores the paths and trails around her cottage and further afield, sharing her nature finds and tracking the lives of local flora and fauna over the course of a year. Reflecting on how these encounters impact her mood, Emma’s moving and candid account of her own struggles is a powerful testament to how reconnecting with nature may offer some answers to today’s mental health epidemic. While charting her own seasonal highs and lows, she also explains the science behind such changes, calling on new research into the benefits of spending time outdoors.

30th June 10.30 to 11.30 NAOKO ABE – ‘CHERRY INGRAM’: THE ENGLISHMAN WHO SAVED JAPAN’S BLOSSOMS As told on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week,‘Cherry’ Ingram is the irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman based in the Weald of Kent. Collingwood Ingram, known as ‘Cherry’ for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived in Benenden until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Over decades, Ingram became one of the world’s leading cherry experts and shared the joy of cherry blossoms both nationally and internationally. Every spring we enjoy his legacy. ‘Cherry’ Ingram is a portrait of this little-known Englishman, a story of Britain and Japan in the twentieth century and an exploration of the delicate blossoms whose beauty is admired around the world.

30th June - 17.15 to 18.15 NEIL ANSELL & DAN RICHARDS IN CONVERSATION Neil Ansell and Dan Richards explore their experiences of the remote and wild places on the edge of human civilisation.

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018, Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence explores the experience of being in nature alone within the context of a series of walks he took into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. He illustrates the impact of being alone as part of nature, rather than outside it.

In Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State, from Iceland’s ‘Houses of Joy’ to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl’s Metro-land writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?

It's going to be a wonderful weekend! Check ticket prices (there's no charge for children up to age 14) and book author events, creative workshops and outdoor adventures via the official website website www.wealdenliteraryfestival.co.uk Saturday June 29, 2019 10:00 AM - 07:00 PM Sunday June 30, 2019 10:00 AM - 07:00 PM Boldshaves Gardens Woodchurch, Kent TN26 3RA United Kingdom

#HolidayInKent #Kent #VacationInKent #EastSussex #familyfriendlyweekendinKent #literarykent #TunbridgeWells #VacationSoup #wealdenliteraryfestival #whatonthisweekendinkent #whatson #whatsoninKent #whattodo

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stirlingdiypress · 6 years

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Review: ‘A Chorus of Lawnmowers’ - Paul Henry Smith

An excellent return to form for Weird Decibels singer guitarist Paul Henry Smith on his new solo album ‘A Chorus of Lawnmowers’. No hint of any major style change here but for those who lapped up his last release, 2015’s ‘Morningday’, then that will come as welcome news. The stripped back vocal style still stands strong amongst contemporary indie releases with a bigger sound, his soul laid bare in the intimacy of the recording reminiscent of the pain in great voices of the past like Cohen and Curtis.

There’s no ceremony or launch point. The starting track ‘Watching Years Fly’ opens with such a downbeat tone as if suffering from hangover blues, the sort of tone you might expect any other album to drop down to in the middle of things, not kick off with. But there’s resoluteness and confidence here that reflects a poet in full acceptance of his middle aged self. The beats and references arrive in retro style with track two, ‘Van Basten’ and it pulses with past heartache, digital drum rolls reminiscent of last tune at teen discos, as the repeat and fade out of the lyric ‘Learn from mistakes you make’ pushes us to think of loves lost.

You expect it all to kick on from there but he reads that pensive feel and backs off for a bit to a part broken, off beat picking on ‘Tree At The Top Of The Hill’, a track with disturbing psychedelic layering that builds like a rush of chemically assisted hormones. Reaching what is arguably the album’s euphoric peak with ‘University (I’ve Never Been Here)’ – all pulsing kickbeat and harmonica, it feels like Smith’s festival main stage moment. He then holds on to that moment on this imagined stage with a pure Joy Division homage in the title track ‘A Chorus of Lawnmowers’, another reflection on mid life existence thoughtfully backed by a brilliant Hookesque bassline that any indie music lover of a certain age will find difficult not to get the feels from.

The Falkirk based singer songwriter producer can be best compared to fellow Falkirk wordsmith and former Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat and the second half of the album sticks truer to these roots. ‘Automatic Help Screens’ ticks away against a simple drum machine and heavily placed synth chords reminiscent of much of Moffat’s great catalogue of work. Shaking off the melancholy once more on ‘Here To Stay’, a tale of love defeating time that comes at you with the pace of an adolescent heartbeat but in a more mature head and reveals a lovely positive side to our otherwise sombre songsmith. Another of his great influences shines out in the next track ‘My Computer Died’, an obliquely haunting basement ballad that could have been picked straight off an early Leonard Cohen album. Early Arab Strap again on ‘Running in the Cairngorms’, another seemingly dysphoric finger picker that turns out to be a little charmer about a private smiling moment of discovery on a 40th birthday.

But if you thought, like me, that the small glimmers of light throughout this ostensibly bleak collection might culminate in an all affirming last song called ‘Hopes and Dreams’ that would cast away the preconceived societal tropes on the slope of life after middle age and voice a picture of new possibility, then you would be wrong, in part anyway. A Forth Valley poet is far better grounded than that. Smith sees the potential in his young son’s future and accepts his own changes more gradually. So with this, we look forward to his next collection of tales.

‘A Chorus Of Lawnmowers’ on Bandcamp. Paul Henry Smith on Facebook.

Words: Tracksuite

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viralhottopics · 7 years

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Bothy-bagging: Scotland’s best-kept secrets revealed – BBC News

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Bothies – remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge – have long been one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the mountain huts.

For more than 50 years the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA) has maintained an eclectic network of shelters across the wilderness areas of Scotland.

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The vast majority are single-story crofts or huts for shepherds which have long since been abandoned.

The secluded hideaways became popular with ramblers and hillwalkers but many were falling into ruin before a group of climbers and walkers formed the MBA to take on their upkeep, with the permission of the owners of the vast estates on which they sit.

The bothy network has never been advertised to tourists and information was always spread by word of mouth between those in the know.

But long-time bothy enthusiast Geoff Allan decided five years ago that the time was right to produce the definitive guide to Scotland’s bothies.

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The author of the Scottish Bothy Bible told BBC Scotland: “Part of the reason it took so long was that I only went out in weather windows to get all the photography in good weather.

“In Scotland that takes quite a bit of time.”

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Mr Allan, 47, originally from Suffolk, has been based in Edinburgh since he was at university in the city.

He says he joined the mountaineering club at Edinburgh University and soon started to use the bothy network.

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“I come from a youth hostelling background,” he says.

“So free accommodation out on the hills caught my imagination.

“Basically I have never really had any money. I would have had many more weeks in self-catering accommodation but it always seems to have been bothies.”

Mr Allan, who was a surveyor but who now works as a photographer and creative artist, says: “I had a car when I was planning the bothy research but it got scrapped because I could not afford to run it so I have been to all the bothies by bike and public transport.”

The Mountain Bothy Association (MBA), which does not own the buildings it maintains, said it had no input into Mr Allan’s book but that the author was acting as an “ambassador” for the movement.

Neil Stewart, a trustee of the MBA, said it had published the grid references of the bothies online in 2009 so the “genie was out of the bottle”.

He said he was happy for Mr Allan to promote the work of the bothy movement as long as people who used the shelters stuck to the strict code of “respect for the buildings, for the environment and other people using the bothy”.

Geoff Allan spotlights some of the best bothies

HIGHEST – Hutchison Memorial Hut

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One of the few purpose-built shelters on the list is built in memory of Dr Arthur Gilbertson Hutchison, a keen outdoor enthusiast from Aberdeen who died in a climbing accident in 1949. It is located high on the north flank of Derry Cairngorm.

REMOTE – Maol Bhuidhe

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East of Plockton there is almost 40 miles of wilderness all the way to Cannich. Maol Bhuidhe lies within this area.

It is a remote roadless area between Glen Carron and Glen Shiel.

The cottage was occupied by shepherds until it was abandoned in 1914. It fell into disrepair and for the next decades it was only used by tramps and vagabonds, people who took to “stravaigin” the country during the mass unemployment of the 20s and 30s.

The Bothy Bible offers two routes to the bothy, both challenging walks of more than 10 miles which would take upwards of four hours.

Geoff Allan says: “There are three rivers so when it is bad weather you can get stuck quite easily cause you have to wade the rivers to get out and there are no tracks or passes. You really need to know what you are doing.”

STRANGEST – Strathchailleach

Image copyright Geoff Allan/Bothy Bible

This battered old estate cottage sits on the vast empty moorland south of Cape Wrath in the far north of Scotland.

It is where hermit James MacRory-Smith lived until as recently as 1996.

Inside the cottage, it is just as he left it 20 years ago, with the murals he painted still on the walls.

Geoff Allan says: “It is really spooky when you are in there because it feels like he’s still there.

“It is like a living museum and because it is so far north and so few people go, it hasn’t been vandalised or anything. It has been left, a bit like the Marie Celeste.”

SMALLEST – The Tea House Easan Dorcha

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“It is basically a glorified garden shed,” says Geoff Allan. He says it is more of a lunch stop than an overnight destination.

Inside there is a small table and chair and a long wooden bench that is not really wide enough to lie on.

There is room on the floor for three people to sleep very closely together.

The cabin sits in woodland in Wester Ross.

‘BEST’ – for first timers /families – Peanmeanach

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“If I was to recommend a bothy to someone in the pub I’d say ‘go to Peanmeanach’,” says Geoff Allan.

If you take the Mallaig road from Fort William you will pass the Ardnish peninsula.

Peanmeanach is located on a raised beach on a rugged headland.

“It is relatively easy to get to,” says the author.

“It’s in its own little raised beach. There is just something about it.

“It has all of the best west coast magic. There is very little to do other than just go to the bothy so you just tune out and escape.”