Annie Worsley
@annieworsley.bsky.social
Writer Crofter Grandmother
Red River Croft Wester Ross
Landscape Nature Environment
#WINDSWEPT: Life Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands (out now)
FRAGMENTS (2026)
#naturewriting #landscapephotography
https://www.annieworsley.co.uk/
Red River Croft Wester Ross
Landscape Nature Environment
#WINDSWEPT: Life Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands (out now)
FRAGMENTS (2026)
#naturewriting #landscapephotography
https://www.annieworsley.co.uk/
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Annie Worsley
@annieworsley.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Windswept: Life, Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands, my debut book pub'd @WmCollinsBooks, shortl'd Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing, longl'd Saltire Book Awards for non-fiction, is available in paperback. It's a love story to place & filled with wild things.
Reposted by Annie Worsley
It's a joy and a privilege to exchange letters with crofter/writer Kirsteen Bell. This month we chat about autumn in the Highlands, woodlands old and new, ghosts of the past and distant futures. Happy reading 😊
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
'The acorns underfoot have fallen in layers so thick it feels like walking on shingle.'
Croft, Coast and Hill: Untamed and gorgeous, autumn arrives on @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts — bringing with it ravens, comets & ghosts www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/crof...
Croft, Coast and Hill: Untamed and gorgeous, autumn arrives on @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts — bringing with it ravens, comets & ghosts www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/crof...
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's a joy and a privilege to exchange letters with crofter/writer Kirsteen Bell. This month we chat about autumn in the Highlands, woodlands old and new, ghosts of the past and distant futures. Happy reading 😊
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
It's a joy and a privilege to exchange letters with crofter/writer Kirsteen Bell. This month we chat about autumn in the Highlands, woodlands old and new, ghosts of the past and distant futures. Happy reading 😊
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
'The acorns underfoot have fallen in layers so thick it feels like walking on shingle.'
Croft, Coast and Hill: Untamed and gorgeous, autumn arrives on @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts — bringing with it ravens, comets & ghosts www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/crof...
Croft, Coast and Hill: Untamed and gorgeous, autumn arrives on @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts — bringing with it ravens, comets & ghosts www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/crof...
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's a joy and a privilege to exchange letters with crofter/writer Kirsteen Bell. This month we chat about autumn in the Highlands, woodlands old and new, ghosts of the past and distant futures. Happy reading 😊
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
#naturewriting #writingcommunity
A squall after sunset.
November 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A squall after sunset.
Reposted by Annie Worsley
“We visited a museum with written accounts by people whose grandparents lived and worked here, in Finsbay, Quidinish, Manish, Geocrab and other townships. The way of life with all the hardships and traumas remembered. History within living memory. Their ghost voices were profoundly moving.”
A ghost post for Samhain.
Happy Halloween 😊
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/f...
Happy Halloween 😊
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/f...
Finding Ghosts
Early in October, after a big storm, we crossed the Minch to the Outer Hebrides. The ferry sailed across a peppermint ice-cream sea, rising and falling in great stomach-churning swoops, as waves sw…
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“We visited a museum with written accounts by people whose grandparents lived and worked here, in Finsbay, Quidinish, Manish, Geocrab and other townships. The way of life with all the hardships and traumas remembered. History within living memory. Their ghost voices were profoundly moving.”
A ghost post for Samhain.
Happy Halloween 😊
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/f...
Happy Halloween 😊
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/f...
Finding Ghosts
Early in October, after a big storm, we crossed the Minch to the Outer Hebrides. The ferry sailed across a peppermint ice-cream sea, rising and falling in great stomach-churning swoops, as waves sw…
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A ghost post for Samhain.
Happy Halloween 😊
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/f...
Happy Halloween 😊
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/f...
Good morning.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Good morning.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
Red sky warning.
Praying for peace everywhere.
View from home to the Torridon mountains, Wester Ross.
"The North wind doth blow
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"The North wind doth blow
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
And we shall have snow..."
First glimpse of winter on Beinn Alligin (Torridon mountains).
View from South Erradale ❄️
Late afternoon, yesterday.
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
October 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Late afternoon, yesterday.
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
I followed the sun. Oystercatchers called, a salted cold breeze riddled the meadows. From the top field I saw a swoop of starlings, a turquoise sea, a mother-of-pearl sky, islands of gauze.
My heart was full.
View across Red River Croft and Inner Sound to Skye
A quiet weather day the forecaster said.
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A quiet weather day the forecaster said.
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
Ha! I was blown about and blasted with salt and grit and drenched in rainbows.
But my shadow-self looks long and lithe 😉
Hello nature chums. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hello nature chums. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
It is a white jelly substance so perhaps a fungus or mould of some sort? There are also smaller dollops of black goo with white nodules alongside the jellies and a few nodules in the white jelly.
Thank you 😊
This is a lovely wee film from @clareshaw.bsky.social & Anna Chilvers. It captures the magic and profound beauty of bogs & moors really well.
Enjoy!
#TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now
#naturewriting #peatbogs
Enjoy!
#TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now
#naturewriting #peatbogs
"From the quagmires of Dartmoor to the moors of Wuthering Heights, bogs are bewitching places."
Watch @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers talking about their anthology Give Peat A Chance: a book of bogs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM41... 2/3
Watch @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers talking about their anthology Give Peat A Chance: a book of bogs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM41... 2/3
Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers talk about the anthology
YouTube video by Anna Chilvers
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is a lovely wee film from @clareshaw.bsky.social & Anna Chilvers. It captures the magic and profound beauty of bogs & moors really well.
Enjoy!
#TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now
#naturewriting #peatbogs
Enjoy!
#TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now
#naturewriting #peatbogs
To read a post like this is wonderful. To think my words have touched these hearts (& the hearts of many others who've written, emailed & posted over the past 2 yrs) is truly humbling. Thank you @mamafoo2000.bsky.social, thank you 😊
This is the real power of #naturewriting
This is the real power of #naturewriting
@annieworsley.bsky.social
I cannot fully express how your writing in WINDSWEPT has filled my 88 yr old mother's heart.
She loves her Scottish Highlands ancestry, has walked the old family area around Loch Awe, and wishes she could have moved there after retiring in the US 30 yrs ago.
I cannot fully express how your writing in WINDSWEPT has filled my 88 yr old mother's heart.
She loves her Scottish Highlands ancestry, has walked the old family area around Loch Awe, and wishes she could have moved there after retiring in the US 30 yrs ago.
October 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
To read a post like this is wonderful. To think my words have touched these hearts (& the hearts of many others who've written, emailed & posted over the past 2 yrs) is truly humbling. Thank you @mamafoo2000.bsky.social, thank you 😊
This is the real power of #naturewriting
This is the real power of #naturewriting
Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines.
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines.
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@jensoilandpen.bsky.social
It's the red dawn of a brand new day. So far it is cool, calm and collected.
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It's the red dawn of a brand new day. So far it is cool, calm and collected.
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
I hear stags roaring and geese honking, and the little river singing to the sea.
Views to the Torridon mountains from home - Baosbheinn, Beinn Alligin and friends 🥰
Scarista, Isle of Harris.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Scarista, Isle of Harris.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
Wild, windswept and wonderful. With only a bevy of swans for company.
Yellow sands, lavender sea, solace and peace.
If you can help Liz raise funds to support research into autism and help negate the bullsh*t coming from RFK jr in the US, it would be wonderful!
Thank you.
With huge thanks to everyone who has already donated 🥰
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
Thank you.
With huge thanks to everyone who has already donated 🥰
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
Elizabeth's fundraiser for National Autistic Society
Help Elizabeth Moore raise money to support National Autistic Society
www.justgiving.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you can help Liz raise funds to support research into autism and help negate the bullsh*t coming from RFK jr in the US, it would be wonderful!
Thank you.
With huge thanks to everyone who has already donated 🥰
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
Thank you.
With huge thanks to everyone who has already donated 🥰
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
Luskentyre. Naturally.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Luskentyre. Naturally.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.
Families with autistic children need our help not RFKjr bleating on about paracetamol. My lass is raising funds in support of autism research so if you feel able to donate even a small amount, that would be wonderful.
With humble thanks ❤️
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
With humble thanks ❤️
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
Elizabeth's fundraiser for National Autistic Society
Help Elizabeth Moore raise money to support National Autistic Society
www.justgiving.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Families with autistic children need our help not RFKjr bleating on about paracetamol. My lass is raising funds in support of autism research so if you feel able to donate even a small amount, that would be wonderful.
With humble thanks ❤️
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
With humble thanks ❤️
www.justgiving.com/page/elizabe...
In the tail winds (gales) of a diminishing storm (Amy).
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In the tail winds (gales) of a diminishing storm (Amy).
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind...
Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
If you're keen on winds and being windswept, here's the livestream of global winds. You can roam the planet or zoom in to watch #StormAmy doing her thing. Enjoy 😊
earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...
earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.
earth.nullschool.net
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you're keen on winds and being windswept, here's the livestream of global winds. You can roam the planet or zoom in to watch #StormAmy doing her thing. Enjoy 😊
earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...
earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...
Hmm... looking at the forecast for Storm Amy… she's a right b***h and makes Floris look like a real pussy. There's trouble coming.
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hmm... looking at the forecast for Storm Amy… she's a right b***h and makes Floris look like a real pussy. There's trouble coming.
I wrote an essay on high altitude peat bogs in New Guinea for "The Book of Bogs"(edited by Anna Chilvers & @clareshaw.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wrote an essay on high altitude peat bogs in New Guinea for "The Book of Bogs"(edited by Anna Chilvers & @clareshaw.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
Here are a few pictures recorded on a life-changing research visit to the New Guinea Highlands when I was very young 😊
Here's the story about blue pigment mentioned in my latest blog
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
And a link to the paper in @antiquity.ac.uk
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
And a link to the paper in @antiquity.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here's the story about blue pigment mentioned in my latest blog
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
And a link to the paper in @antiquity.ac.uk
notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
And a link to the paper in @antiquity.ac.uk