Fraser MacDonald
Geographer, historian.
- I had to read the email a dozen times before I believed it. To sit alongside journalists whose work I admire so much doesn't feel real.
- 📢 2025 Orwell Prize Finalists Announced! The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth. Explore this year's shortlists & judges’ reflections: open.substack.com/pub/orwellfo...
- Not at all surprising but heartening nonetheless – so pleased for you Dani!
- I’m really not a big Indy campaigner but wow Britain is so irredeemably cooked. Scotland get yer coat.
- Good morning, may I present to you this quite remarkably preserved house for sale, papered, painted and carpeted in a thousand different shades of postwar brown and beige. espc.com/property/193...
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View full threadjust think of all the compost bins you could fit here
- Lots of potential, it’s true
- If you got tired of the decor, you could always bathe the senses in the back garden.
- Not sure if anyone has noticed that ‘Dunvegan’, Nan Shepherd’s lifelong residence in Cults, Aberdeen, has just come on the market... www.aspc.co.uk/search/prope...
- It looks like they have a portrait of Comrade Honecker in the hall?!?
- It's quite the resemblance! I'm guessing that it isn't a lingering trace of Shepherd's sympathies ... AND YET I'm not sure I've seen any NS scholars make reference to this talk in 1944...
- Well now! That’s what Dunvegan looks like. Heck. And the railway line at the bottom of the garden?
- Yes, the railway line, and the path beside it at the bottom gate (pictured here), is better maintained than when I was wee. This part of Cults hasn’t changed much.
