#ardtornish

Scotland has its inaugural #treehugging champion in an event organised by @DarachCroft Did you know there is a world championship?

England’s women might have won the Euro championships, but Scotland has just crowned its first national tree-hugging champion. The Inaugural Scottish Hugging Championship was held on July 22nd at Ardtornish as part of the Morvern Games and Gala Week. Organised by Darach Social Croft and An Darach Forest Therapy, the competition attracted twenty-four competitors, double the number the organisers…

I’m poking sticks into the gaps in an old stone wall. At first you may think that I have finally reverted to childhood and that my next activity will be drawing cowboys and Indians, after all that’s not the sort of activity pensioners normally indulge in. There is, however, a purpose behind what I am doing. I am building an insect hotel.

Toad of Toad Wall

As I write this I realise that…