David Hunter
@davidweirhunter.bsky.social
✍️ — Glasgow MLitt writer, published in Gutter, Scottish PEN Magazines. Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Finalist.
🌱— 30+ yrs working in farming, forestry, rural, people & place, UK nature conservation & https://darwinplus.org.uk/
🏴 — Falkirk lad. ‘Davie’.
🌱— 30+ yrs working in farming, forestry, rural, people & place, UK nature conservation & https://darwinplus.org.uk/
🏴 — Falkirk lad. ‘Davie’.
And crab apples…the birds’ll be happy!
August 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
And crab apples…the birds’ll be happy!
Mega year for sloes!
August 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Mega year for sloes!
Really good article by @alexjclark.bsky.social in today’s @guardianbooks.bsky.social on who writes and reads ‘nature writing’ — that lucrative echo chamber of often emotional narrative, lined with lovely woodcut covers. I like @herdyshepherd.bsky.social’s take on it — less detached more real.
August 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Really good article by @alexjclark.bsky.social in today’s @guardianbooks.bsky.social on who writes and reads ‘nature writing’ — that lucrative echo chamber of often emotional narrative, lined with lovely woodcut covers. I like @herdyshepherd.bsky.social’s take on it — less detached more real.
Not to be used after a few beers…
June 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Not to be used after a few beers…
Sow, grow, plant, grow on. Peas, French-climbing, runners and broad beans. A bit of horticultural therapy this evening. Soil not too embarrassing to show it off!
May 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sow, grow, plant, grow on. Peas, French-climbing, runners and broad beans. A bit of horticultural therapy this evening. Soil not too embarrassing to show it off!
The revolution will be Tunnock’s shaped.
April 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The revolution will be Tunnock’s shaped.
Every time I see that fabulous sight! Listening Moon (published in Gutter Magazine 2022).
March 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Every time I see that fabulous sight! Listening Moon (published in Gutter Magazine 2022).
How can you tax an institution like an Electric Milk Float?
Definitely leaves a sour taste! Must be the milk.
Definitely leaves a sour taste! Must be the milk.
March 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How can you tax an institution like an Electric Milk Float?
Definitely leaves a sour taste! Must be the milk.
Definitely leaves a sour taste! Must be the milk.
Pint of Hooky and a wander through the chocolate box Cotswold villages…
March 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Pint of Hooky and a wander through the chocolate box Cotswold villages…
Nice set of stoneware mugs in Mayco ‘Birch’ over ‘Green Tea’.
February 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Nice set of stoneware mugs in Mayco ‘Birch’ over ‘Green Tea’.
Is this the way to Amaryllis…a Christmas present from a Tony Christie fan.
February 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Is this the way to Amaryllis…a Christmas present from a Tony Christie fan.
Spotted Nessie…
February 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Spotted Nessie…
What else on a chilly Sunday?
January 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What else on a chilly Sunday?
A wee bit snow, a couple of -8 nights and…
January 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A wee bit snow, a couple of -8 nights and…
Charcoal Burners published by Scottish Pen, 2022
December 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Charcoal Burners published by Scottish Pen, 2022
My nephews photo which was my banner on here until last week…the backdrop to my entire childhood, it and Bowden Hill Fort with its vitrified fortifications. Probably the reason why I do what I do.
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
My nephews photo which was my banner on here until last week…the backdrop to my entire childhood, it and Bowden Hill Fort with its vitrified fortifications. Probably the reason why I do what I do.
‘Portheras Barrow on Woon Gumpus Common.’
Total poetry! Deserving of a tomb back at ya.
Pàirc na Binne Wedge Tomb, Co. Clare. Lonely on The Burren, watched over by goats!
Total poetry! Deserving of a tomb back at ya.
Pàirc na Binne Wedge Tomb, Co. Clare. Lonely on The Burren, watched over by goats!
November 26, 2024 at 11:01 AM
‘Portheras Barrow on Woon Gumpus Common.’
Total poetry! Deserving of a tomb back at ya.
Pàirc na Binne Wedge Tomb, Co. Clare. Lonely on The Burren, watched over by goats!
Total poetry! Deserving of a tomb back at ya.
Pàirc na Binne Wedge Tomb, Co. Clare. Lonely on The Burren, watched over by goats!
Writing desk random definitions.
My grandad - both 2nd right (same name as me) forman miner and fireman (sets explosions) and as a ‘guiser’ raising cash for the 1926 general strike, yup with blacked-out face 😱
My Bloody Scotland lanyard 😎, UoG tile, + a wee thing by my Dad’s blacksmith brother.
My grandad - both 2nd right (same name as me) forman miner and fireman (sets explosions) and as a ‘guiser’ raising cash for the 1926 general strike, yup with blacked-out face 😱
My Bloody Scotland lanyard 😎, UoG tile, + a wee thing by my Dad’s blacksmith brother.
November 24, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Writing desk random definitions.
My grandad - both 2nd right (same name as me) forman miner and fireman (sets explosions) and as a ‘guiser’ raising cash for the 1926 general strike, yup with blacked-out face 😱
My Bloody Scotland lanyard 😎, UoG tile, + a wee thing by my Dad’s blacksmith brother.
My grandad - both 2nd right (same name as me) forman miner and fireman (sets explosions) and as a ‘guiser’ raising cash for the 1926 general strike, yup with blacked-out face 😱
My Bloody Scotland lanyard 😎, UoG tile, + a wee thing by my Dad’s blacksmith brother.
Banner is one of N C Wyeth’s illustrations for the 1934 edition of Treasure Island
November 24, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Banner is one of N C Wyeth’s illustrations for the 1934 edition of Treasure Island