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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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