Music often seems to come laden with baggage. Fashion, genre, attitude – what do they have to do with the pure power of organized sound? Why are jazz, orchestral, folk and experimental music dismissed by so many as eccentric, weird and uncool? It’s rather depressing, because the answer is that music is not part [...]

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Yesterday Stu and I went up Buachaille Etive Beag, the little herdsman of Etive. It’s a ridge parallel to its big brother, Buachaille Etive Mor, but lacks that mountain’s grandeur and the stirring aspect when seen from Rannoch Moor, which I snapped with difficulty from the speeding car:

Remarkable to see the mountains like this when [...]

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