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I headed up to Evanton yesterday, to have a walk through the Black Rock Gorge, which I had heard was pretty impressive, but had never seem for myself.

Following the OS Walks guide I parked in Evanton and walked up the northern bank of the Allt Graad with a few interesting sections where there had been landslips. After about 1.5km the gorge proper is reached, it is about a 1km long gash though the conglomerate rock about 10-30m deep and 5m wide.

The main paths lead to two obvious bridges across the gorge, but it is worth walking up the southern (right) bank through the woods to a third bridge (which is actually a Scottish Water pipeline bridge) located under the HV pylons.

To go upstream of this point, pick your way through the woods on the northern bank to the upstream end of the gorge. The paths do have a tendency to disappear, either into a clump of fallen trees, or just become not so apparent.

It would have been good to have had a monopod and remote shutter release, to get some better images from unreachable angles, but you live and learn…

An interesting animation, which tries to explain the reasons behind the global “Credit Crisis™”. An American take on a problem that originated in America… The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Via John Gruber

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A fantastic photographic record of George W. Bush’s presidency, posted by Errol Morris at the New York Times.

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Well, it’s 2009 already, so a Happy New Year to the world, who may or may not be reading this…

The wintery weather of late has meant I’ve been snapping away on the camera, and I’m slowly getting round to uploading photos from the festive period on flickr.

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Why do they have to put stupid plastic pins on the armistice poppies this year? Unless you happen to have a jacket with a button hole (which I don’t) then you cannot (easily) show your respect for those who fought in the great wars.

Before you comment, I know that it is probably for “health and [...]

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