Annie O'Garra Worsley

Windswept: Life, Nature & Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands, my debut book pub'd @WmCollinsBooks, shortl'd Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing, longl'd Saltire Book Awards for non-fiction, is available in paperback. It's a love story to place & filled with wild things.

Surreal, serene conditions this afternoon. Warm sea; the air, heated. I've not known a summer like this. The strange stillness was almost warping time - futures present, pasts renewed - yet the happy energetic voices of our grandchildren kept me rooted to this place, this day.

What a day 💙 Opinan beach, Wester Ross. View across the sea to Skye.

Thousands of mini suns strain to find the big one. A trillion tiny eyebright stars. Our meadows are awash with life & growing fast. The yellowness is threaded with pinks/purples- clover, knapweed, vetch, ragged robin shooting skywards. With every step insects flit & hum. The joy!

Dear #archaeology friends. My grandson found this in the garden in Le Perche, France. Bedrock chalk and flint, low hills and deeply incised river valley. Can anyone help him with understanding this piece? It's 10cm from tip to base.

#FridayFeeling

This beautiful 9-page letter, scented with desert sagebrush, came today. It's nature writing at its best. Reminds me of Gretel Ehrlich's great book, The Solace of Open Spaces. It contains the most generous offer of friendship. I didn't know my own small book could travel so far!

Sailing in a sea of silver and a sky of gold. The Shiant Isles from our mainland croft in Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands. @ShiantIsles

Powerful messaging from @ZackPolanski and the Green Party: "The same system that is poisoning our rivers is poisoning our minds".

Alex de Waal is one of the world's foremost experts on famine. Listen to every word he says about Israel's forced starvation of the people of Gaza: "There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Wildlife Twitter/X friends... Is this a badger paw print? Thanks in advance for your help. Found in the margins of the river which runs through our croft, close to an old ford. 😊

Heat, intense light, colour, hue and chroma. The afternoon sky, sea and shore... a (symbolic?) view for these troubling times. Red Point beach, Wester Ross, Scotland, 20/7/25.

A big weather change this afternoon. Rain clouds gathering, mists rising (with midges) and a warm breeze by the sea. We badly need rain but we're already missing the sun! An Teallach from 'Destitution Road', Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands.

Silver haar, a moonstone sky above and curlicues of pale blues below. High summer magic in the North West Highlands 💙 View over the Minch this morning.

My 11yo grandson (Will) is reading @PhilipPullman's Northern Lights. Says it's the best thing he's ever read. I'm reading my old (English) copy alongside him. Now I know why I've a cousin named Lyra, he says. We both bubble with joy. Wait til he reads The Subtle Knife, I think 😉

Kite-flying with the grandchildren. #FridayFeeling #FridayFun

Dear butterfly friends... can anyone ID this beauty for me please? Possibly heath fritillary?

Dear @RealBobMortimer if you are in our neck of the woods, pop in for a cuppa. We're not too far from Inverness airport 😉 ... well, only a couple of hours, but the brew plus cake and mountains and rivers and lochs and the sea would be worth the drive over. 😊

It's that time of year again... making jammy magic from the haul of blackcurrants 🥰 This year it's a week early, and two weeks earlier than in 2023!

Around 3,500 crofters have not confirmed that they are living within 20 miles of their croft as required by law. That is a serious concern. Absentee crofters, like absentee landowners, seldom give rise to vibrant rural communities. Action required... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…