Tuesday 16 January: I’m back from my trip to Skye. Before I begin posting the photos from those remarkable days up there, I need a local leg-stretch. It’s familiar ground, and none the worse for that. Going by the Met. Office’s definition (the calendar months of December, January and February) we’re half-way through winter now – I’m going to look for any early signs of the spring that will surely come in just over six weeks.

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