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Rachel Dominy
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Seizing that day. Also here @cairngormless.bsky.social
November going out with a quiet splendour. A morning walk out of the back door and into the Cromdale Hills. Tomintoul distillery hunkered down in the valley.
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Ever-changing light in the Cairngorms this morning.
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.

This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.

open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Pesky pheasants in the garden. (Although Bobbie the labradoodle is actually focussed with adoration on the workshop where her favourite person is doing tractor maintenance…)
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Ever wondered what a Labrador and a Labradoodle look like play-fighting on a sheepskin rug?

Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The Cairngorm mountain range from the Old Military Road between Tomintoul and Grantown-on-Spey.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Not a bad sunset.
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Waiting for our best person … 🥰
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Uncovered a stone-lined drainage ditch, complete with a culvert that we think marks the location of the old track.

The guy who used to farm here, who is 77 and has lived in the glen his whole life, hasn't ever seen it, so it must be 100+ years old.

Geeky I know, but I love this kind of thing.
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The big fella's been helping me chop wood.

#dogsofBluesky
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Bear the black Labrador needs Tubigrip on his leg.

Bobbie made it clear she felt left out, so she's wearing one now too.

#dogsofBluesky
September 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Apparently autumn has been declared. #nofilter #Cairngorms
September 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Trying to take a photo of Bear with his blue rope toy to send to his aunty. Bobbie thought otherwise…
September 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If you know, you know. ♥️
September 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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A game of two halves: first they love me the most - and then they switch their allegiance to Rachel.

#lunchtime #dogsofbluesky
August 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Best of friends.
August 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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You could almost forgive the midges on a morning like this.

Almost. #Cairngorms
August 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
And very delicious it was too. 😀
Getting messy on a Friday night now means eating a guacamole and bacon toasted sandwich.
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The Mighty Bear hurtling back for a treat.
August 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Bobbie was focused on a scent. An animal bolted and ran across the hill as Rachel commented on how big it was.

I thought she was confused because it was only a small deer.

Except it was a hare. Imagine a hare so big you mistake it for a deer.

It's a wild and mysterious place here that's for sure.
August 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Bear sleeps better if he's touching Bobbie.
August 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Bobbie and Bear have had a very busy day. Quickly becoming the very best of friends.
August 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Landscape Research Group deadline for Trustee self-nominations is 3 August. Please do apply! We are looking to further diversify our wonderful Board. landscaperesearch.org/trustee-oppo...
Join LRG’s Team of Trustees in 2025 - Landscape Research Group
The trustees are crucial to LRG’s work. They ensure that the charity is well run, and they decide how the charity should go about meeting its aims, which are to advance landscape research and support ...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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326) Pillbot. Can determine with over 64% accuracy which end of the pack of pills to open so you don't get the folded-over directions *again*. #SmallRobotsRemastered
July 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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BEATS BLACKPOOL BUT NOT RHYL.
July 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM