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Welcome to my User page.

I prefer to edit articles about the wild and lonely places of North Britain and only rarely venture out to more civilised parts. Please note that 'Ben' is an honorific - my local friends call me 'MacDui'.

When visiting my part of the world please:

The local weather can be found here.

I am currently listening to Holly Humberstone.

Anyone wishing to offer a media opportunity should contact my agent, Am Fear Liath Mhor.

Awards and brickbats

See User:Ben MacDui/Awards

GA Contributions

Arran · Barra Head · Dubh Artach · Eday · Flora of Scotland · Flannan Isles · Geology of Scotland · Gigha · Hebrides · Inner Hebrides · Islands of the Clyde · Islands of the Forth · Islay · Jarlshof · Kingdom of the Isles · Lismore · Northern Isles · Mingulay · Orkney · Orkneyinga saga · Outer Hebrides · Papa Stour · Prehistoric Orkney · Raasay · Rùm · Scandinavian Scotland · Scotland during the Roman Empire · Shetland · Sigurd Hlodvirsson · Skerryvore · Skye · Staffa · Þorfinnr inn riki · Torf-Einarr
Other Significant Contributions
Domesticated Scottish breeds · Earl of Orkney · Gofraid of Lochlann · Hinba · Oldest buildings in Scotland · Oldest buildings in the world · Origins of the Uí Ímair and the Earls of Orkney · Rognvald Eysteinsson · Scottish island names · List of sea stacks in Scotland · Seil · St Magnus Bay · Stratha'an · Ulva · Yarrow Water · Yell Sound ·
Mostly fairly straightforward to get to GA/FL if the inspiration strikes.
Other Interests

These are a few of my favourite things.

Image Article Subject Comment
Dun Carloway Archaeology Iron Age penthouse
Skara Brae Archaeology Meet the Flintstones
Lunnasting stone Archaeology et tu nechton?
Hylocomium splendens Botany The magical "Glittering Wood-moss"
Woodsia alpina Botany Rowan and Martin had nothing on Lhwyd & Williams – pteridomania indeed.
Lunga, Firth of Lorn Geography Rubha Fiola adventures – but watch out for the midges and the Grey Dog
East Loch Tarbert, Argyll Geography Magnus Barefoot vs Robert the Bruce roller derby.
Camastianavaig Geography The Battle of the Braes
Sleeping Warrior Geography See Flickr for a decent view
Yarrow Water Geography/literature Walter Scott, James Hogg, William Wordsworth and Tam Lin, all in one little glen.
Hutton's Unconformity Geology "The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time."
John Sands History The "M.P. for St Kilda"
Hinba History An island in Scotland of unknown location...
Land of Green Ginger History April Fool DYK – a small land, with even smaller windows.
Invariant set postulate Mathematics Speculative resolution of the Bohr–Einstein debates.
List of domesticated Scottish breeds Zoology Seaweed eating sheep et al.

Suggestion for the Wiki-Stressed

"Come away, human child,

To the water and the wild,

With a faery hand-in-hand,

From a world more full of weeping

Than you can understand."

The ruins of Loch an Eilein Castle, Rothiemurchus. This user may be visible from here!

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