Lowther Hills Ski Club (1 new item)

These are a few of the photos I've taken mostly during various work parties over the last 2 and a bit years so as to document what we're doing at the Lowther Hills Ski Club.

The Southern Uplands

Photos from the local hills

Colour Wheel

Beech tree leaves in their green to red-brown autumn colour transition arranged around one mushroom in the cluster growing from a rotting beech tree stump.

Lowther Hills Ski Club (1 new item)

These are a few of the photos I've taken mostly during various work parties over the last 2 and a bit years so as to document what we're doing at the Lowther Hills Ski Club.

Lowther Hills Ski Club (8 new items)

These are a few of the photos I've taken mostly during various work parties over the last 2 and a bit years so as to document what we're doing at the Lowther Hills Ski Club.

Lowther Hills Ski Club (5 new items)

These are a few of the photos I've taken mostly during various work parties over the last 2 and a bit years so as to document what we're doing at the Lowther Hills Ski Club.

Snow fencing work party on Lowther Hill

Well on the way to our first permanent snow fence.

Music and social

When I were a lad I used to be a regular gigger but now I'm an old man, I mostly just binge at festivals. A few pix here from festivals and other social gatherings.

Lowther Hills Ski Club (1 new item)

These are a few of the photos I've taken mostly during various work parties over the last 2 and a bit years so as to document what we're doing at the Lowther Hills Ski Club.

Lowther Hills Ski Club

These are a few of the photos I've taken mostly during various work parties over the last 2 and a bit years so as to document what we're doing at the Lowther Hills Ski Club.

Aurora

Some aurora pix from Moffat and its surroundings.

Homebrew

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The pressure barrel was filled with about 35 pints from a 40 pint ferment, but here's what's left of the hoppy pale that I brewed a few weeks ago. It's a home brew called Golden Stag (bought in the Edinburgh brew store) which is an excellent 'summer ale' kit. A couple of hours of preparation (sterilisation and rinsing mainly) then add your warm wort and water mix, top up to 40 pints, add your yeast, seal up the tub with a lid and airlock, keep it at between 20 and 25 C and away you go. On day 5 add dry hops, seal it up again and…

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Beer in a glass

Nicely clear after just 15 days from the get-go.

Latitude Festival

Sony NEX-6 and Minolta MD 28 f/2.8 - I can't remember how many times we've been to Latitude, we started going around 2008 or 2009, and this year's one was as good as any of them.