The next instalment of our ruggedising journey, where we finally get a starter tiny home onto our terreno, by way of Brexit chaos and a septuagenarian road trip - join us en route to Confort Rapido living...

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What can the rest of the world learn from the small Spanish seaside town of Chipiona about resilience and ruggedisation, personally and municipally? As their children learn from the past and model the future, from the Great Lisbon Earthquake to the latest geological data from the Alboran Sea and the Horseshoe Abyssal Plain, what are you doing to prepare yours for an increasingly uncertain path ahead? Want to do more, dive in and brace yourselves...

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A necessary later calendrical start to 2026's unco blog posts, but still a happy (lunisolar) new year to you all! Why do some cultures celebrate the start of a new year now, while others marked 'the turn' six weeks ago, with others still not due to flip over their calendars until June? What difference does it make?

As the British Geological Society celebrates gaining access, via corporate channels, to 'first of a kind' drill core samples from the Great Glen Fault, why should the rest of us be concerned? What does it mean for interdisciplinary research and climate modelling? Who cares? Who should? Lets have a looksee...

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If you've ever attempted to navigate a city as a Disabled person, you'll know more than most, there is the city and there is the city. If you haven't, whether as a Disabled person or as someone without impairments, you still need to know why cities, in and of themselves, are effectively, constitute, disabling circumstance. To understand a little of why, also try this ethnography for size...

If you've ever attempted to navigate a city as a Disabled person, you'll know more than most, there is the city and there is the city. If you haven't, whether as a Disabled person or as someone without impairments, you need to know why cities, in and of themselves, are effectively, constitute, disabling circumstance. To understand a little of why, try this ethnography for size...

In the next instalment of our ruggedising journey, we explore perils and pitfalls of utilising the reuse and recycle economy, whilst also paying homage to the weather gods of the Val-de-Vez. Come on in, the waters are murky and skies stormy, suddenly...

As our ruggedising, resilience journey continues, we are given pause to consider other journies, geological, cultural and anthropological which rendered the place we had come to steward how it is. Join us, as we again tease out our experience and understanding…

With the Scottish Languages Act about to become law, what are we missing? How do we reconnect the knowledge and power in our indigenous languages back to the land they should be inseparable from? What difference would it make?

Where do we find meaning when everything seems so empty and futile? Who has the maps? Are there any answers? Maybe there are some clues in the histories of semiotics, visual culture and digital anthropology...

A time of monsters, here be dragons etc etc.! Where does the tendency to other come from? Can we, as social animals, humans, get past it? Where can we learn lessons from, before its too late?

Turns out objective rationality isn't all it cracked itself up to be. What else is there? How do we reorient ourselves in a fast changing world, moving past tipping point after tipping point? What is self, as we undertake necessary ruggedising journies, as climate migrants? What about who we meet along the way?

Another instalment of our narrativised, ruggedising, resilience journey; lets get intae it...

...one man's narrative journey towards Dia de Liberdade...

A latest instalment of our narrativised, ruggedising, resilience journey, encompassing Pascoa - not celebrated uniformly across Portugal but with equally disabling circumstance - and Dia de Liberdade, both of which mark Primavera out for celebration by Portuguese people; lets get into it...

In Brain Awareness Week, the UK government's trailing of cuts to disability welfare payments seems like a particularly malicious kind of trolling - want to understand why? Dive in, the waters are troubled...

The claimed evidence base for CBT practice and efficacy is exagerrated, flawed, biased and makes claims to an impossible objectivity, gauged only by its own measures and tests. Yet it remains predominant, particularly in state-provided, prescribed treatment, even when other therapies are provably at least equally effective on more solid and less prone to bias based evidence - to find out why, dive in...

As a new year turns around, in the home of Hogmanay, tourist engagements with its traditions are disappointed by the Scottish weather, or are they? Read on for a wee whisk through what led to a street party and fireworks, cancelled or otherwise, in the first place...

What's in a contract? What's in a constitution? What's agency anyway? An epilogue to 'Mind Your T's & C's, from a Portuguese perspective...

First in a narrative journal of personal ruggedisation, resilience, a journey; there's facts, advice, everything you've come to expect from an unco post, just this time its, more obviously, a story too. Go on, read on, you know you want to...