Will Ellwood
@unleashtheginger.bsky.social
Mountain runner, lapsed climber, occasional writer, and sometimes engineer.
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Our next trip is to Glen Doll, in the Angus Glens area of the #Cairngorms National Park. Our trip in 2018 was one of glorious blue skies one day and misty with snow falling the next - it's a great area to explore!
We have a programme of monthly weekend trips for 2026 - why not join us?
We have a programme of monthly weekend trips for 2026 - why not join us?
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Our next trip is to Glen Doll, in the Angus Glens area of the #Cairngorms National Park. Our trip in 2018 was one of glorious blue skies one day and misty with snow falling the next - it's a great area to explore!
We have a programme of monthly weekend trips for 2026 - why not join us?
We have a programme of monthly weekend trips for 2026 - why not join us?
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A few days ago in the Cairngorms #hiking www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/12/nove...
November Sunset in the Cairngorms
Cairn Toul & the Lairig Ghru just before sunset One of the big advantages of the winter months in the Scottish Highlands is that sunset is i...
www.christownsendoutdoors.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A few days ago in the Cairngorms #hiking www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/12/nove...
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Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire - Police Scotland appeals for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/01/g...
Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire – Police Scotland appeals for information
Press release from Police Scotland (1 December 2025): APPEAL FOR INFORMATION AFTER BIRD OF PREY SHOT IN ABERDEENSHIRE Officers are appealing for information after a bird of prey was shot in Aberdee…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire - Police Scotland appeals for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/01/g...
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All the greatest hits at a slower speed—guaranteed. Plus some egg foo young.
1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
2. Will Web - Spacewalk
3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
4. Vladislav Delay - Huone
5. Swans - Leaving Meaning
6. Pole - Hafen
7. Aphex Twin - #1
8. The Cars - Jacki
1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
2. Will Web - Spacewalk
3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
4. Vladislav Delay - Huone
5. Swans - Leaving Meaning
6. Pole - Hafen
7. Aphex Twin - #1
8. The Cars - Jacki
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
All the greatest hits at a slower speed—guaranteed. Plus some egg foo young.
1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
2. Will Web - Spacewalk
3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
4. Vladislav Delay - Huone
5. Swans - Leaving Meaning
6. Pole - Hafen
7. Aphex Twin - #1
8. The Cars - Jacki
1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
2. Will Web - Spacewalk
3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
4. Vladislav Delay - Huone
5. Swans - Leaving Meaning
6. Pole - Hafen
7. Aphex Twin - #1
8. The Cars - Jacki
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New! @wordgarbler.bsky.social revisits an old favourite with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and @sakbari.bsky.social is excited about Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/87 or on your podcast app.
Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/87 or on your podcast app.
87. Waiting for Godot / Theory of Water. | The Spouter-Inn
Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
megaphonic.fm
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
New! @wordgarbler.bsky.social revisits an old favourite with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and @sakbari.bsky.social is excited about Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/87 or on your podcast app.
Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/87 or on your podcast app.
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J G Ballard on the South Bsnk Show , twenty years ago. I first found his work in the SF section of the local library when /i was ten or so, and and got hooked on the atmospherics of the first three novels. Later, called by the vast temporal resonances of the far night sky... youtu.be/8LosxrbL3sU?...
J G Ballard Documentary
YouTube video by matley virgo
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November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
J G Ballard on the South Bsnk Show , twenty years ago. I first found his work in the SF section of the local library when /i was ten or so, and and got hooked on the atmospherics of the first three novels. Later, called by the vast temporal resonances of the far night sky... youtu.be/8LosxrbL3sU?...
Clashindarroch Forest
Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd…
Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd…
Clashindarroch Forest
Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd lost all my limited confidence in step turning and controlling long skis on descents.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Clashindarroch Forest
Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd…
Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd…
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while: here’s @davidheb.bsky.social on the incomparable Nina Allan’s latest, A Granite Silence:
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
A Granite Silence by Nina Allan
In her latest novel, Allan steps in a different direction again.
strangehorizons.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while: here’s @davidheb.bsky.social on the incomparable Nina Allan’s latest, A Granite Silence:
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
“In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Some scenes from cross country skiing in the Clashindarroch forest last Friday. It's difficult to concentrate this week.
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Some scenes from cross country skiing in the Clashindarroch forest last Friday. It's difficult to concentrate this week.
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
~ Søren Kierkegaard
🎨 James T. Watts (1892)
~ Søren Kierkegaard
🎨 James T. Watts (1892)
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
~ Søren Kierkegaard
🎨 James T. Watts (1892)
~ Søren Kierkegaard
🎨 James T. Watts (1892)
Snow has arrived in Aberdeen, but I already enjoyed a short dook into the snow on Carn An T-Sagairt Mor last Saturday.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Snow has arrived in Aberdeen, but I already enjoyed a short dook into the snow on Carn An T-Sagairt Mor last Saturday.
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Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social ). sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social ). sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Today's album on repeat Robert Hood's Internal Empire.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Today's album on repeat Robert Hood's Internal Empire.
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The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard
a major biography
by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illuminat...
a major biography
by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illuminat...
The Illuminated Man
This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.In 2024, Nina Allan's husband, the novelist Christopher Priest died. He ha…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A delightful piece about Wittgenstein’s “left-handed pages.”
(Which would be right-handed pages for me, but I’ve learned to accept that we live in an anti-leftist society.)
(Which would be right-handed pages for me, but I’ve learned to accept that we live in an anti-leftist society.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s left- and right-hand pages
“Only not to lose oneself!!”
masoncurrey.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A delightful piece about Wittgenstein’s “left-handed pages.”
(Which would be right-handed pages for me, but I’ve learned to accept that we live in an anti-leftist society.)
(Which would be right-handed pages for me, but I’ve learned to accept that we live in an anti-leftist society.)
Adventures in Acid
Yesterday Ryan from Third Circle Coffee in Aberdeen posted to Instagram a video clip of his new speaker and amp setup with an ambient electronic record playing. I sarcastically heckled in the comments that it needs more acid. Today, as I walked in on my lunch break, a…
Yesterday Ryan from Third Circle Coffee in Aberdeen posted to Instagram a video clip of his new speaker and amp setup with an ambient electronic record playing. I sarcastically heckled in the comments that it needs more acid. Today, as I walked in on my lunch break, a…
Adventures in Acid
Yesterday Ryan from Third Circle Coffee in Aberdeen posted to Instagram a video clip of his new speaker and amp setup with an ambient electronic record playing. I sarcastically heckled in the comments that it needs more acid. Today, as I walked in on my lunch break, a compilation record from the same blindly purchased haul of records was playing called Adventures in Acid.
blog.will-ellwood.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Adventures in Acid
Yesterday Ryan from Third Circle Coffee in Aberdeen posted to Instagram a video clip of his new speaker and amp setup with an ambient electronic record playing. I sarcastically heckled in the comments that it needs more acid. Today, as I walked in on my lunch break, a…
Yesterday Ryan from Third Circle Coffee in Aberdeen posted to Instagram a video clip of his new speaker and amp setup with an ambient electronic record playing. I sarcastically heckled in the comments that it needs more acid. Today, as I walked in on my lunch break, a…
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'mean-spirited'
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'mean-spirited'
5x1km repeats this morning with 2 minute recoveries. Haar over Aberdeen today. Wrecked now, but managed to go just under 20 minutes for the active work part of the session.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
5x1km repeats this morning with 2 minute recoveries. Haar over Aberdeen today. Wrecked now, but managed to go just under 20 minutes for the active work part of the session.
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵