Posts about alness

  • Cloud inversion over the Cromarty Firth

    Random things in December 2025

    Monthly snaps from the end of last year.

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  • Random things in January 2022

    It seems to stick in my mind that by the time we get to January, we’re well into winter. But the snow and ice often doesn’t arrive where I live until January or February, although that doesn’t preclude it being pretty damned cold from time to time. January this year marked the arrival of my

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  • Loch Eriboll

    Spending three weeks in one of the most beautiful parts of the world this summer.

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  • The Glory Days

    Alness, on the shores of the Cromarty Firth in northern Scotland, has a heritage of floral displays and the town won many awards between 1997 and 2007. Winter is certainly not the most picturesque time to visit, yet the small town has its charms and is a pleasant place to visit. It’s a slight anachronism,

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