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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/05/2026

Another excellent edition of 🪦The Graveyard Shift 🪦open mic night at Diggers last night! As ever, thanks to all who came along for a pie, a pint and some music and poetry - and particularly to those who performed 🎙️ ⏭️ Next on: Tues 21 July - get in touch for an open mic slot!

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/05/2026

Our next Graveyard Shift open mic is TODAY at the Diggers! 🎤 Feature sets from @anniebrechin.bsky.social , @strongmisgiving.bsky.social and Grant B. robertson 🎤 Start time 7pm, running till 9pm. See you there?

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 30/04/2026

next poetry open mic at the Diggers, a week today 👇

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 25/02/2026

I headed out to La Réunion - a farflung island born when the shield volcano Piton des Neiges erupted out of the Indian Ocean - to trek the GR-R2. 130km coast to coast via cirque walls, jungle and volcanic summits 🇷🇪 👉 full feature in JRNY Issue 12 - jrnymag.com/product/jrny...

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 12/02/2026

Our line up for the March edition of The Graveyard Shift - our poetry open mic night at the legendary Diggers pub 👇 E-mail for an open mic slot or come down and watch!

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 10/02/2026

another night at table-topping Tynecastle Park 🇱🇻

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/02/2026

"but you said you'd give me the gold medal?"

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 23/01/2026

What a night at the Diggers! Thanks to everyone who packed out the room 🎤 Great open mic-ers, two top sets from Jack Hinks - and I got to share a set of new material with a room of extremely lovely people 🙏🎸 📌 Next GYS open mic: Mon 23 March. Features TBC 🍺

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 20/01/2026

My first night co-hosting the Graveyard Shift at Diggers! Expecting a good turnout so get down early if you're coming along 👇🍺

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 14/11/2025

Beinn Eighe and Liathach, from Loch Clair 🍂

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 02/11/2025

Tynecastle has been a rare treat this season! The dream start continues. The angry guy who sits behind me and hates short corners is beginning to concede that we may, in fact, be quite good this year.

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 22/10/2025

Autumn in the Torridon hills - dream stuff!

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 20/10/2025

On the mountain trail on Beinn Eighe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/09/2025

I spent a week in #Kosovo hiking with Uta Ibrahimi, who recently became the first woman from the Balkans to climb every 8,000m peak. We walked the Via Dinarica Kosovo, criss-crossing borders with Montenegro & Albania. 👉 On @theguardian.com now: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 22/08/2025

"why not use a co-working space?" The public library:

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 09/08/2025

What's sleepin' in our soul 🫨🤩🎶 I had *unreasonably* high expectations for Oasis last night and they went and exceeded every single one of them. #oasis #acquiesce #murrayfield #edinburgh

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 24/07/2025

Up to the summit of Gjeravica (2,656m) - the highest mountain solely in Kosovo, a stone's throw from the Albanian border 🇽🇰🇦🇱

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 09/07/2025

Along we go... 🇽🇰🇲🇪🇦🇱 A few more shots from the Via Dinarica Kosovo trail. Moving along from the border with Montenegro to the border with Albania and so, to highest mountains in Kosovo.

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/07/2025

A taster of yesterday on the Via Dinarica Kosovo - walking the border with Montenegro 🥾

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/07/2025

My next story brings me out to Kosovo 🇽🇰 I'm going to be hiking on the Via Dinarica this week, and with a bit of weather luck, getting up Gjeravica - the country's highest peak. Photographs below from Pristina.

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 05/07/2025

I took a voyage along the 26 bus route, down to Portobello, for my latest piece for @theguardian.com. 👉 on why people can’t stay away from Porty, and a community fighting to stop a (now-but-not-always) trendy seaside town from becoming a “holiday let”. In the Saturday pull-out today ⛱️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/07/2025

The latest edition of Scottish Wildlife dropped through the door today, featuring my cover story on the grey seals of Little Linga and Linga Holm, the northernmost reserves of the Wildlife Trust movement 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 11/06/2025

A few more stills from the Way for any Arran enthusiasts (which, let's be honest, should be all of you) out there... 🌊⛰️🌅

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 02/06/2025

Roland Garros meets the PSG Champions League homecoming celebrations last night - during the Rune vs. Musetti night session 🇫🇷

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 17/05/2025

good evening Asturias 🍻

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/05/2025

Thursday weather forecast for Arran: ☀️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 07/05/2025

Day 4 of the Coastal Way 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️ Gently broken now, but the good views keep on coming - and 2 x pod of dolphin and this lovely otter dropped by to keep us going (a flight of Lagg whisky helped too)!

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 06/05/2025

An all time pitch last night in Arran 🌄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 04/05/2025

Wildlife spotted around #Arran today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: - 3 x dolphin - 1 x otter (my first in the wild!😍) - 10 x seal - 2 x stonechat - one million beloved oyster catchers

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 04/05/2025

Arran weather report ☀️☀️☀️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/05/2025

Day 1 on the Arran Coastal Way! The 65-mile loop around the island of #Arran. I am delighted to say I am sunburned ☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/05/2025

seeing this forecast and packing all the rain gear anyway is what it means to be a Scottish hiker

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 22/04/2025

i think this is my favourite quote in an article ever

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 19/04/2025

our foster rabbits have packed up their belongings, said goodbye to the house buns and moved on to their forever home 🥲

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 12/04/2025

Scotland's highest village! ☀️☀️☀️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 10/04/2025

I was over at the wonderful Crawick Multiverse at the weekend - a cosmos-themed land art installation built on the site of an old open-cast mine - in sunny Dumfries and Galloway. Article coming soon... ✏️✨

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 08/04/2025

Four from a sunny day on the Southern Upland Way 🌞

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 06/04/2025

Up early on the Southern Upland Way ❄️☀️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 04/04/2025

Welcome to tropical Scotland ☀️☀️☀️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 03/04/2025

Up Goat Fell at the weekend - sunshine over Arran ⛰️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 23/01/2025

Just the 132mph wind gusts scheduled for Ben Nevis tomorrow then

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 04/01/2025

snowy Pentland vibes ❄️

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 02/01/2025

New Year's Day at Dunnotar Castle 🌊

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 01/01/2025

Wait for it... Ringing in the bells by launching a few flames at the #Stonehaven Fireballs! Happy New Year everyone! 🔥✨

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 28/12/2024

having given in to the insatiable pull of internet chess again recently, I got my first 2000 ratings yesterday (blitz still alludes me)! Now to delete the app and join a recovery group

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Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com · 18/12/2024

Update to Edinburgh services for the festive period leaflet, including housing, food and crisis services - courtesy of the excellent Grassmarket Project

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