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📕 Author of ‘Running Through the Dark’ a memoir on grief and my ultrarunning adventures 🎙️ Host of Resilience Rising Podcast 💻 Caseworker to MSP | Ex-lawyer ⛰️ Live in the Scottish Highlands
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Wishing you a beautiful day 🌅 swim at sunrise at the loch for me #scotland

"Nobody knows what to do with us. I’m waiting for some big breakthrough, but I don’t know if it’s ever going to happen." 💔 We need more investment in research NOW. #LongCOVID

There’s been many days I thought I never get in the mountains again… but here I am, a year after my second knee replacement, scampering 25+ mountain miles in one weekend 🙌🏻 #kneereplacements

Beautiful views of a snowy Ben Lomond, Arrochar Alps and down to Loch Katrine from Ben Venue today ⛰️⛰️⛰️ #scottishhighlands

Beautiful day on some local trails ⛰️ #scotland

Wander down to the loch with Sherlock this morning… what a stunning day it’s going to be ☀️ #scotland

Beautiful to get out on a local loop from the house today after being away all weekend 🦅🏔️ #scottishhighlands

How do we get over the worst thing to ever happen to us? I speak to psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Cortman and he takes us through his five steps 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... #resilience

Beautiful conditions up on An Caisteal today ❄️ so grateful to be up a mountain, laughing and chatting about life with a friend, and having amazing views (for most of it!)… #scottishhighlands

Scottish salmon farms ‘misleading shoppers’ on deaths & chemicals All thanks to Jane Dalton at The Independent for publicising this “Scottish salmon companies are being accused of employing “greenwashing” tactics to cover up death rates, sea lice & chemical use” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Loop into Glen Tarken this afternoon 🌧️ so good to be out even with the bits of sleet!

If you stand very still right now, you can feel it. A slow awakening, reaching, uncurling, every tiny thing flickering back to life. The birds are singing a little louder, and the light from longer days stretches into all the shadows. Everything lies just ahead of us, around the next corner.

Removing Palestinians from their homeland to replace them with a luxury resort for American billionaires is ethnic cleansing. It is a crime against humanity. 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lornaslater.bsky.social on #bbcqt

Lovely late afternoon loop up Beinn an t-Sìthein (hill of the fairies) today 🏔️

Grey day at Loch Earn but dog walk and then my 3.7 mile loop done before a day at my desk 🎙️💻☕️

Well of the Old Woman… 💦

Loop around Callander Crags and Bracklinn Falls today… after finally getting rid of our moving boxes at the recycling centre 📦😆

Beautiful afternoon… a loop from Comrie into Glen Artney for me 🦌

Hello Bluesky! We're proud to be building a better future with refugees in Scotland. Looking forward to sharing news, views and good vibes, joining the discussion around refugee rights, and standing in solidarity with people seeking safety. #AyeWelcomeRefugees

Campaigners have won a crucial ruling, overturning the UK Government's support for Rosebank oil field. It would cause emissions equal to the 28 lowest income countries combined! Renewable energy is the safest, cheapest and greenest available. It's where our future must lie.

We've made huge strides to make the budget better: more kids getting free school meals, free bus travel for asylum seekers, & a brand new regional trial of a £2 capped bus fare. Changes that will have a real positive impact on people in their everyday lives. Worth celebrating🎉💚

Today’s #1000postcards is the Scarlet Elf Cup this delightful #fungi can be found now growing through the mosses that blanket the fallen branches on the woodland floor. In some places there are so many it’s hard to know where to put one’s feet. Painted with watercolour on fabriano

Still time to tell the Scottish Government not to overturn the planning refusal of Loch Long Salmon farm… please sign! ✍️ @scottishgreens.org greens.scot/SaveLochLong

Lots of travelling over the weekend but back at my loch for sunrise swims 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏔️

That’s our back garden gate and that’s how far Sherlock would walk today 🌧️🙈✋🏼 back inside for a coffee while we still have power then…

Any journalists out there fancy having a go at paddleboarding in the #LakeDistrict, let me know.

I’ll be giving a talk in Peebles on Saturday - on running, illness, resilience and my book, Running Through the Dark #cfsme #ultrarunning #writing eastgatearts.com/events/runni...

Help save Loch Long from having a polluting and industrial salmon farm built on it… greens.scot/SaveLochLong...

The government is considering whether to reverse a legal presumption that played a key role in Post Office scandal. rozenberg.substack.com/p/computer-s...

The view as we came back down into the woods… 🌳

Lovely few miles around the woods at Aberfoyle this morning with Marcus and Sherlock 🐶 #scotland

Lead author of recent Oxford uni study: "The best thing you can do for the planet, your own health, and your wallet is to switch to a largely plant-based diet. If you find it easier to switch to plant-based alternatives that look and feel like meat, fish, or dairy, that’s okay.”

The way light brings the sea to life ☀️

Thank you! My book Running Through the Dark is available here: www.adventurebooks.com/products/run...