Blar Mor no more

This is as boring as I can make it. This used to be part of the Blar Mor, which means big bog. It wasn't a brilliant bog. It'd already been cut in two by a road and a railway and was quite dry for a bog. Quite a lot of scrappy looking birch and willow were growing on it. It used to be covered in bog cotton and dragonflies. Curlews used to nest on it. There is still some left - just not quite so much.

And it was the largest area of flat ground left around Fort William. So, a large supermarket chain got permission to develop it, and all the peat was taken off. But then, nothing because the economy wouldn't make a supermarket here viable at the moment. The new police station is good, and we may get a new hospital.

I hear that in some parts of the UK on sites like this community groups get to create things like temporary orchards. The trees are planted in big crates and when development actually starts the trees are just fork-lifted onto a truck and moved somewhere else.