General Musings

[Mr A]

The damaging narrative that Scotland is a desolate, barren wasteland is false. Next time you see a piece of land like that, check in the higher ground areas where the grass might be growing longer than the rest, often that means that there was a Shieling there. Research the local area and find out whether people used to live there, often the answer is yes.

Just trust me that I'm correct and your estate owner telling you that his land is worthless while you shoot deer on it is wrong.

I don't know the estate owner. Just a guy who works on the estate - whose father is a crofter and stalker as was his grandfather & has lived his entire life in the highlands.

He couldn't put an exact figure on it but estimated that well in excess of 50% of the land in the highlands is useless apart from what I described.

Nobody is saying it's a desolate waste ground - but a lot of it is pretty useless.

I'm not sure you'd get people queuing up to move up there either tbh. Great place to visit but can get pretty dull.