Algy's Adventures
Algy's unique adventures on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands have been published regularly on The Adventures of Algy, Algy's original Tumblr blog, since March 2012, and include photos, GIFs, sound clips and original writing, sometimes with poetry quotations. You can see a small selection of his adventures here in Algy's Slideshows.
For anyone who does not use Tumblr, Algy's adventures are also published on Algy's independent blog which you can view as a web site, or choose to have each adventure delivered to you by email. Algy's adventures have many thousands of followers and fans, from countries all around the world.
Everything that Algy publishes is suitable for children of all ages, but young children are likely to find some of Algy's adventures rather dull, as they are not designed for a young audience and include poetry quotations and so on.
26 Apr 2020
Algy was spending much of his “lockdown” time exploring his assistants’ garden - a much smaller world than he was used to, but, in spring at least, full of fascinating new things to discover. Having ...
21 Apr 2020
The spell of fine, dry April weather continued to gladden the hearts of all the creatures who were “locked down” and staying safely at home in the wild west Highlands of Scotland…Like many birds,...
19 Apr 2020
Every year in April a strange and puzzling phenomenon occurs in the wild west Highlands of Scotland, where cold wind, rain, mist and cloud are the norm in every season… The sky turns a most...
18 Apr 2020
Having studied the section of the gardening book which discussed the growing of cherries, Algy looked around his assistants’ garden to see whether he could find any cherry trees. There seemed to be...
15 Apr 2020
Locked down in isolation in a distant corner of the wild west Highlands of Scotland, Algy’s assistants were busily occupied in creating a victory-over-the-virus garden, so that they would have some...
12 Apr 2020
On Easter morning the sun finally broke through the mist and Algy flew down into his assistants’ garden, to see what might be happening there… Imagine his surprise when he discovered a very special...
11 Apr 2020
When Algy woke up on Easter Saturday the world was still shrouded in dark, drenching, dreich Scotch mist. But, as the morning wore on, Algy perceived a gradual change in the sky overhead - an...
10 Apr 2020
The mist came down, and for Algy - as for so many of his friends at the moment - everything which lay further than a few hundred yards away entirely vanished, and he was enclosed in his own wee...
9 Apr 2020
While Algy reclined on the soggy ground, he received messages from several of his tumblr friends about the burn and the landscape around him, so he thought that perhaps they might like to see one...
8 Apr 2020
The wind dropped for a moment, so Algy disentangled himself rather painfully from the mass of prickly gorse, and flew down to a cosy spot beneath an overhang beside the burn. When the burns flooded...
7 Apr 2020
Algy flew up from the banks of the Mill Burn and turned to the north, heading home, with a very strong tail wind following. As he reached a low point where another burn ran between the hills, a wild ...
6 Apr 2020
Algy reclined beside the Mill Burn and watched the water flow slowly past his feet on the final stage of its journey to the sea. Raindrops made circles on the surface, but they were swiflty swept...
5 Apr 2020
It was Sunday, and Algy decided that it was time to take a short
break from labouring in his assistants’ garden and get a wee bit of
essential exercise - and of course, for a fluffy bird,...
4 Apr 2020
Eager to help in his assistants’ “victory over the virus” garden, Algy looked around for tasks suited to the rather peculiar skills of a fluffy bird. It was very early in the growing season in the...
3 Apr 2020
Things were getting more and more challenging in all kinds of ways for a very large number of humans, and in the most remote corner of the wild west Highlands of Scotland it was becoming...
1 Apr 2020
It was a cold, damp, misty sort of day and, like most of those in the human world at this time, Algy was restricting his adventures in order to keep his friends safe. But fluffy birds are rarely...
30 Mar 2020
Today - and indeed every day - Algy is thinking of all the “front line” workers around the world, who at the present time are knowingly risking their own lives each day to try to save others....
29 Mar 2020
photosworthseeing:
What is yellow, white and fluffy, hangs upside down by its toes in a bush, and sings a little jingle?
You have three guesses…😀
With much love and thanks and fluffy hugs to all the ...
28 Mar 2020
Algy decided to explore a wee bit further, to see what other flowers he might find, and in a dark, dank, shaded corner he discovered a treasure. As he rested on the ground beside the plant the...
27 Mar 2020
Spring had reached the west Highlands of Scotland, and although the north wind was still awfully cold and the ambient temperature only a few degrees above zero, the sun had kindly decided to help...
