Charles Gibb’s excellent article, Learning from Lizzie, put me in mind of the story about the Alberta cowboy: Whilst overseeing his herd in a remote mountain pasture, a cowboy sees…
Few mansions can rival the seaward approach to Kinloch Castle at the head of Loch Scresort on the Isle of Rum for setting. The height of its main tower and…
The debate over statues and streets named after Dundas rumbles on. Of course, we have far too many statues commemorating rich conservatives who stood in the way of progress. Our…
John Ridgway described the sea as his magic carpet, which perhaps encapsulates the wonderment it has always held for me. Some 70% of the Earth’s surface is seawater, and with…
Whatever the government seems to think, it does not look like it is going to be, relaxed rules or not, a happy Christmas, although the vaccine news suggests a rather…
The market town of Insch sits in a sheltered howe in the rural heart of Aberdeenshire. It is the smallest settlement having its own station on the Aberdeen-Inverness railway line, and…
Wednesday afternoon, 17 March 2020, as well as being St Patrick’s Day, was the day myself and colleagues were advised that we should gather up as much of our equipment,…
Kenneth Royâs Notebook on ‘passing away’ as a description of death reminds me of the old Highland expression of ‘passing on’. It was a reminder that lifeâs journey is not…
I was intrigued to read Gillean Somerville-Arjat’s piece last week (12 May) on an apparently lost poem. This rang a bell and I realised that I had been in the…
Following the recent about-turn by the Scottish government, we now have the local authorities in the firing line as âtax raisersâ with a directive to apply additional rises to bands…