Jonathan: Today, we’ve been down North – to the Isle of Benbecula – to collect two wonderful paintings we’ve recently bought, now framed by Austen Dancey at the Puffin Studio Crafts.  They’ll be revealed in a special post, tomorrow morning!  This particular post is, however, dedicated to a different kind of art – one that entails spontaneously turning ‘off route’ onto unfamiliar or long-forgotten side roads and seeing the landscape from a different angle – and above all with a different attitude. This is are from a ‘half-hour holiday’ on the road to Loch Sgioport, on – or rather off! – our way home from Benbecula.

Stilligarry and Loch Druidibeag from Loch Sgioport road, Isle of South Uist