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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 13h

Nearby beaches aren’t bad either

Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Who can forget horizontal dancing, hitching to Caracas, the brilliant Chic Murray as the eccentric Headteacher, learner drivers and that penguin ❤️

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I do wonder if the Wordle setters on the NYT are spamming Trump this week

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Not that I want data centres up here, but the whole of Scotland is pretty much always a big impressive 0 Carbon Intensity I often ponder how good the UK would have been if England wasn’t so terrified of onshore wind 🤷‍♀️

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Renewable construction in Scotland is on pause currently waiting on grid Q2 2026 stats Capacity for renewables generation continued to increase to 18.4 GW (3.3% up since Q2 2025) June 2026, there are 1,253 renewable energy projects with a capacity of 99.4 GW in the planning pipeline in Scotland

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Nice lunchtime walk today Has anyone else noticed an unusually large number of blaeberries still on the plants? I can’t remember seeing so many still there in early October Last few Bluebells sheltered behind a wall & Cowberry flowers (Lingonberry for those of a Scandinavian persuasion)

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Got to love Scotland, we are pretty good at getting both animals (and some notable women) on our bank notes by robustly ignoring the whole king thing Particularly love the otters on the £10 although I don’t use cash much anymore

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Here are just a few of the most recent homes CHT helped communities build 20 affordable homes at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 10 in Achiltibuie 3 on Raasay These are not easy places to build in, communities are the only folk who can access land but building homes & running them is challenging

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m now scouring our local thrift shop for Vinyl 17 year old nephew in Denmark CDs for 19 year old DVDs for me Said thrifty recently produced some original 60s vinyl - so ‘Pet Sounds’ & ‘American Pie’ much to the 17 year olds joy (and mine as they all only cost a £5) ❤️rural thriftys

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Just seen this alarming news for the creative sector. Edinburgh College of Art ‘Today 3 very long running, high performing and highly respected Undergraduate Design programmes have been closed. They are UG Textiles, UG Jewellery & Silversmithing and UG Performance Costume’ Sad times

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Lovely site visit to a wind farm we worked on during construction in 2011, great to see the habitat management plan working well (creating bog habitat on previous conifer plantation) Some sundew & cranberries & sphagnum sp And the usual bees love-in with my hi-viz

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Scotland - your periodic reminder that all our electricity is zero carbon today, as it is nearly every day….

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Really really looking forward to seeing this in two weeks time I’d watch Simon Russell Beale read the telephone directory out (if they still existed)…… particularly excited to see Fra Fee

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

The Cure were blinking sublime last night, sounded as good as ever, beautiful, euphoric Loved the demographic of the audience, loads and loads of younger folk Met up with a friends friend who had come across from Tasmania for the gig in Edinburgh

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

Argh…,any more governments from other countries want to build renewables in Scotland, its very profitable do come on in… Frankly working with another conscientious state owned energy company is delightful in my line of work But jumping Jehoshaphat can our government just build some generation to?

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Today like many times over this summer it’s closed in both directions all day All the traffic has diverted through Aberfeldy which at one point had 9 mile tailbacks on all approaches, HGVs & 8 Ember Buses stuck both ways on the divert. Then gridlock on even single track roads

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

We know exactly where the accidents happen because that’s where they always do Summer routine is always check google maps before I go to Dunkekd or South to check because tragically accidents happen so frequently

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Single carriageway sections make it particularly dangerous, due to the road junctions we have to use to cross it/get on/off The volume of traffic results in stacks of vehicles waiting 20/30 minutes for a gap to cross or join it, it’s like f**king crossy road but with real people

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Like anyone who uses it almost everyday to get to the Doctors, shops, kids to school on the bus, the A9 needs to be duelled (it is being thank goodness) It’s the main route to the north of Scotland, to the islands, Inverness everything uses it - HGVs, busses & tourist traffic (lots of campervans)

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes it’s so frequent in the summer that I always check if I’m heading south to Dunkeld The community are AMAZING that’s when it kicks in, quickest information system ever via the community Facebook pages This is Aberfeldy in gridlock at the moment

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

What’s this Edinburgh, you can do the cone thing too……

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Great to see the progress on the Habitat Management works on a wind farm we built 15 years ago Saw Hen Harrier, Mountain Hare, Scotch Argus and sundew - all of which aren’t as common as they should be in southern Scotland…. & which weren’t there before the wind farm was built in 2011

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Most wind farms have a limited lifespan 30 years, the turbines get knackered. Repowering of Whitelee is already planned, with bigger more efficient turbines (6MW) Much is on state owned land FLS makes lease from renewables It’s at that stage the government could choose who gets to build it?

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

This lack of oversight is such a huge loss given the Ha of land that is supposed to be managed under HMP For example huge renewables developers making money but not spending as required by legal agreements on habitat improvement at sites

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Habitat Management Plans are usually a requirement of the planning consent, sometimes backed by a s75 legal agreement HMP are where a Developer promises improvements in the habitat around or adjacent to their development as part of mitigating the adverse impacts of the development

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Biodiversity Net Gain widely used in England, remains undefined as yet in Scotland which is a good thing (thank you Nature Scot for not deciding the metric) Why, because the planning system already does not deliver on existing Habitat Management Plans www.nature.scot/doc/biodiver...

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

WESTERN GOLD EXPLORATION LTD. ( has secured an exclusive land access agreement with FLS covering approximately 95km² within its Orchy Crown Estates licence application (Figure 1), unlocking this ground for active exploration www.newsfilecorp.com/release/3005...

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Smelling this in Pitlochry drifting on the wind www.firescotland.gov.uk/news/more-th...

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Given the durability and longevity of pumped hydro & the longer construction times, I’m disappointed that Ofgem have only selected three PSH as part of their LDES Cap & Floor Lithium batteries may be quick to construct but they aren’t sustainable in the the long term

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

Loving Stockholm archipelago & catching up with an old Swedish uni friend Architecture is beautiful & love the environmental management Saw some dead birch trees strapped to living trees specifically for small woodpecker to nest in (they like dead wood on living trees)

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

Out on the Baltic ‘singing sands’ of Dueodde on Bornholm Rather Hebridean apart from the Scots Pine backing the beach

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Off across to Bornholm on the huge Catamaran ferry between Ystad and the island….. Just reached cruising speed of 39 knots If Scotland had one of these it would take about an hour to travel between Ullapool/Stornoway Denmark knows its stuff transport wise

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Good day taking a friend and their daughter up Curved Ridge, she had done a chunk of indoor rock climbing but first scramble/ Munro, she did brilliantly Good to see a few groups off up Agags & January Jig on the Rannoch Wall Lunch on Crowberry Tower

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

Another new wind farm nearing COD, these 200m 5.5MW modern turbines are much quieter than the older models. A few years of construction to get to this stage Thank goodness it’s a cooler 24 degrees in Scotland today

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

Scotland - your periodic reminder that all electricity is zero carbon today, as it is most days Abundant renewable electricity generation definitely helps us transition to zero carbon heat & transport - looking at the electrification of Scotrail trains in the central belt for example

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m not a huge fan of remote-ism I have to admit to liking a bit of daft cycling aka Tim Moore’s various escapades…….so Chapeau to riding a small folding bike up St Kilda’s only road

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

I was bombarded with these yesterday on site in Dumfries & Galloway Caught in my hair, one hit me in the eye, they like hi-viz One of the ecologists did point out it’s a fairly sharp peak season

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Gill Steele @squirreltower.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

Useful list of alternative search engines that prioritise privacy to set as default instead of Google www.qwant.com

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