A Perfect Day on the Cobbler     It was an easy walk to the Narnain Boulders and now that we were close in to the corrie floor it needed […]

In September of 1976 Tom Weir caught up with the doyen of Scottish naturalists, Seton Gordon YOU never know who you’ll meet on the Skye ferry. In this case it […]

I WAS very sorry to miss a visit from my Lancashire friend Stan Bradshaw recently. The note he had slipped through the door told his own story:   “Called at […]

Part three of Tom Weir’s column on the crofting life and those who have returned to it     I’d like you to meet Mrs Katharine Stewart who wrote a book about crofting in […]

In the summer of 1980, Tom Weir went to meet a man whose journey to work is a daily adventure I had an intriguing letter not long ago from a place I […]

Part Two of a glimpse into Gordon Sutherland’s crofting life – lived on his own terms     I volunteered to do the cooking while Gordon lit the fire and finished […]

The 60-70 tonne Auld Wives Lift stones were ones Tom Weir had passed many times, but he had never thought to look closer until a professor from the University of […]

From Peterhead to Kintyre, Tom was always keen to protect the wild Scottish landscape from man’s exploitation Farther east across the country comes a different kind of threat, this time to […]

The spring of 1976 wasn’t the best for weather, but from Braemar to Banchory, and from Bearsden to Bridge of Cally, there was no snow, ice or rain that could […]

  Two worlds. The long: peninsula of Kintyre with its dairy cattle and sheep on the headlands above the sea, was green and springlike, while the Arran hills were Alpine […]