Our changing world

Photo: view towards The Trossachs and Scottish Highlands from Dumyat.
 This morning  I found a dead badger on our road, knocked over by one of the fast cars that zip up our once quiet, narrow road to the  gentrified farms further up. It was one such vehicle that killed our Teddy, a young rescue cat, some time ago.
 We have lived here for over 40 years and never heard of any animal, wild or pet, being killed on this road until now. 

 
What to do? unfortunately there is nothing we can do.  It’s Is a sign of our times.
 It’s been such a glorious sunny day, without a breath of wind, a rarity in Scotland, that I walked on Dumyat and learnt that Edinburgh university are rewilding a section of this mountain, restoring it to its original l state. They have also introduced a noticeboard. That’s where I learnt that

Fossachie, a small knoll , a sheltered  outcrop beneath Dumyat, which I have visited many times and again today (see extra ) had five farms in the 16600s which suppled kid goats for the royal table of King James V.
The last tenant left in 1761 when the owner put sheep on the land. This area is also where the Maeatae tribes lived  around 200AD. 
 
Sometimes one forgets that this area is steeped in history.