Myself and @antonchanning decided to check out Christmas at the Botanics in Edinburgh this year. We bought our tickets for the last weekend of November. Weather turned out dry and frosty, perfect for an

November has a reputation for being really cold and dull but if you walk in nature with an attentive eye you will spot some real beauty. I love to look at small details, like the fluffy hair on this fruit.

In this blog, I will share with you my experience of installing Linux for the first time. The process was not as difficult as I expected but it involved a learning curve. I have used Linux for 10 years

A snapshot from British reality through the eyes of a non-binary Pole thrown under the Brexit bus and living in hope of Independent Scotland. Somewhere in Scotland I grab my backpack and leave my home.

Details As BlockPress is prepared for beta release, the time came to ensure the documentation was comprehensive and up to date. Themes and palettes Our wiki now has a list of both themes and palettes.

I was on a holiday last week and my family visited so we wanted to entertain them. I decided to book a boat cruise on board the Dolphin Spirit. It's a pleasure cruiser that advertises itself as a good

In my previous blog, I described my visit to Glen Ord Distillery. I took some photos on my way there and want to share them with you. The distillery is the only tourist attraction in this village, with

Glen Ord Distillery Glen Ord Distillery is located in the Muir of Ord village and it produces Singleton Whisky for Asian export. This means that the only place in Europe that you can taste this whisky

New Features Javascript support for themes This new feature means that theme creators no longer need to embed their scripts in the HTML. Having separate javascript files in the theme folder makes the structure

New Features Tags and Mentions The BlockPress Steem module allowed links on tags in the profile description and now I enabled this feature in posts and comments. I decided to also add links to mentions

During our Valpurgis Night celebration, my friends and I discovered some fairy doors and even a whole fairy village at the bottom of Fairy Glen in Rosmarkie. I was glad to have my camera with me and be

After a personal celebration at home, my friends picked me up and we went to Rosemarkie together. The original plan was to have a fire on the beach. The weather was very sunny but it was also very cold

This year my friends invited me to a Beltane/Walpurgis night celebration. I usually celebrate it with a bonfire in my garden and I didn't want to give up on this idea but the celebration party sounded

Overview I am pleased to introduce a lot of improvements to BlockPress, including a great new feature. It is now possible to theme steem post thumbnails separately from the preview text. This allows theme

False Morel (Gyromitra esculenta) This strange looking brain like blob is a mushroom. If its looks seem offputting, then just as well since this little fellow is very poisonous and eating it could be fatal!

More Blooms! In my previous blog Spring Flowers I shared some of my highlights from a morning stroll around the local area and I have few more beauties to show you. I can not possibly choose which of these

Spring in full Bloom This year spring arrived a wee bit late in Scotland and before today, I didn't have a chance to walk around the neighbourhood with my camera. The weather was partly sunny with some

Plodda falls are one of the most scenic and tall in the Loch Ness area. The waterfall is located in Glen Affric and you need a car to get there. It's really worth it. It's only a short stroll away from

Living in a suburb of Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands, has its advantages. Being able to observe a Sparrowhawk eating its breakfast from my living room is one of them! Since we moved in back in 2012,

Why did I leave my home country? I get asked this question especially when the person I talk to has recently visited my beautiful hometown of Krakow. Poland is a beautiful country with a strong culture