Culture
An English Invasion
With the 500th anniversary of Flodden and the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn behind us, you should know that Scotland is being invaded by the English yet again. It is the […]
Wildlife
All Wildlife Posts
Culture
Deadly Encounters
It was still early when the garden erupted. The eruption woke me up. I lay still for a few moments trying to rationalise the sound through the dregs of sleep. […]
Culture
Wild Lands, Wild Waters
I love September because every year it saves me from an overdose of summer. By the time September dawns, or at least by the time it has got a week […]
Culture
Woodland Wonders
In August pinewoods go all drowsy on me, flat-footed and weary like an old dog. I know this trait of pinewoods of old. I have, after all, been here before. I […]
Culture
Links With Nature
I have reason to remember that tee shot. Kilspindie Golf Course at Aberlady, East Lothian coast, a beautiful early July day, sunlight bouncing off the deep blue Forth estuary, a […]
Culture
Island Life
A questing heron stalks the furthest edge of wrack-strewn rocks, working the falling tide on a Skye shore. Two otters clamber onto a scrap of a skerry near Ord, just […]
Culture
Thrilling To Diver’s Call
If you didn’t know what that sound is, at first hearing you could be forgiven for thinking that it is like the speech of the land itself, like blood, like […]
Culture
Rewilding Scotland
Rewilding is a buzzword I don’t much care for, and now that I think about it, so is “buzzword”. On the other hand, if it were proved that a buzzword like […]
