walking – KDD & Co

sock of the week: no.10

the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales

Castle Tioram walk

By: KDD June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

architecture, History, landscape, Scotland, walking, West Highlandsardnamurchan, Castle Tioram, Highlands, Moidart, Scotland, Silver Walk, walk, walking11 Comments

exploring a spectacular landscape and its turbulent history

a walking week

By: KDD May 13, 2021May 13, 2021

History, landscape, photography, Scotland, walkingardnamurchan, History, landscape, Lochaber, Moidart, photography, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish history, walking17 Comments

exploring a stunning part of Scotland

Oa my!

Kate’s favourite outdoor pullover gets an Oa-verhaul

back up conic hill

By: KDD February 21, 2021March 21, 2021

landscape, Scotland, walking, West Highland Way, West Highlandscoinneach, Conic Hill, landscape, walking, West Highland Way20 Comments

In which we are happy to get out and about in the hills again

out cold

By: KDD January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

landscape, photography, Scotlandcarbeth, chill, cold, fog, ice, landscape, photography, Scotland, walking, weather, winter, winter walking27 Comments

We seem to be in the middle of a fairly sustained cold snap in our part of Scotland. Icy days have been followed by snowy ones, with bitter temperatures and freezing fog. I personally like quite chilly weather, and particularly enjoy its transformative effect on my surrounding landscape. During a cold spell, everything starts to…

moon walk

By: KDD December 30, 2020

landscape, photography, Scotland, seasonal, walkingblue hour, landscape, moon, photography, Scotland, seasons, walk, walking, winter36 Comments

Hello! We are currently enjoying a very quiet and relaxing winter break. In the absence of any socialising, this has largely involved good food, lots of films and books, knitting (me), creating digital soundscapes from ordinary household objects (Tom) and crisp long walks (both of us, plus dogs). After an extended period of hard work,…

wax and water

By: KDD November 17, 2020November 17, 2020

walkingcanvas, clothing, gear, landscape, outdoors, rain, textiles, trakke, walking, waxed canvas, weather36 Comments

Simply because of where we live, this year has, I think, not been tough as it has proved for so many other people. I feel enormously grateful to be able to just step outside and go for a walk in wonderful rural scenery directly from our front door. And for me personally, the importance of…

a chat with Misa Hay

There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…

the pillar craig

By: KDD July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

landscape, People MAKE Glasgow, Scotland, walkingcarbeth, Craigallian, Glasgow, Glasgow writers, Hugh Macdonald, Ian R Mitchell, Pillar Craig, Rambles Round Glasgow, Strathblane, walking, working class writers21 Comments

I’ve been reading a lot of books while researching People Make Glasgow, and one of my favourite recent reads is Ian R Mitchell’s This City Now (reissued as Walking through Glasgow’s Industrial Past in 2015) which offers a brilliant walker’s guide to the city’s industrial history. The book mentions one of Mitchell’s peripatetic-literary Glasgow forbears…

radius

By: KDD June 6, 2020June 6, 2020

landscape, walking, West Highland Waylandscape, map, walking40 Comments

hello! Sorry to disappear there: sometimes a migraine can really slay me, and that’s definitely been the case with this one. As well as feeling utterly exhausted, I’ve really needed to rest my eyes, so I have spent most of this past week away from the computer screen. It is funny how not sitting at…

cuckoo watch

By: KDD May 10, 2020May 10, 2020

birds, landscapebirds, cuckoo, cuckoos, landscape, walking29 Comments

Though our landscape is full of the sound of cuckoos at this time of year, I’ve always found it quite difficult to actually see them. Their song carries a remarkably long way, and when I’ve followed the source of the sound and spotted one, it always seems to be sat up high on a far…

a spring walk

By: KDD May 3, 2020May 3, 2020

birds, video, walkingbirds, birthday, landscape, recording, sound, video, walk, walking40 Comments

Hello! As you may have gathered, our broadband definitely isn’t sorted out yet – in fact, Tom received a somewhat concerning text message from our provider reassuring us that our switchover was now scheduled to be completed “before June.” The currently patchy connection is certainly somewhat frustrating, but in the larger scheme of things, it…