Tuna fishing in the Caucasus Mountains

Energised and relaxed in equal measure by four days at Higham Hall I had quite a productive day. A morning at the gym – yoga, a swim and a sauna.
In the afternoon my first visit to the Glasgow Print Studio mainly to see the Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition which I enjoyed but what really caught my attention was this working model of a singer sewing machine transformed into a kinetic theatre depicting tuna fishing in the Caucasus Mountains.
Home far later than I intended just in time to join a zoom session on animal tracks and signs led by Lucy Wallace, mountain guide and Ramblers Scotland President. I loved her description of a ptarmigan – a snowy chicken with fluffy feet. And my photograph of scat , which I had taken in Glen Loin at the end of the summer, was identified, thrillingly, as a pine marten’s. 

 




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