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Rabbits to the rescue
Yesterday my lovely assistant and I headed off to one of our many local antiques centres to take morning refreshments. It’s not just one antique shop, this place, it’s like a huge aircraft hangar full...
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Logan Botanic Gardens
On holiday in Galloway last month, my delightful assistants and I visited Logan Botanic Gardens: This is a pilgrimage each of us makes, usually at least once a year. Being members of the Royal Botanic...
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Culross
A few weeks ago I took my delightful assistant to the pretty village of Culross (pronounced Coo-ross) in Fife. To my mind, there is such a thing as taking too many photographs, and it’s something I...
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Peace and contentment
During my little holiday in Galloway last week I visited a number of beautiful gardens. Things grow very well in Scotland’s south-west, thanks to a fair bit of rain, warm air from the Gulf Stream and a...
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Autumn Colours
The autumn colours in Perthshire are particularly good this year and, thinking that the Scottish Borders would be putting on a similarly spectacular show, I took the delightful assistants down there...
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The delightful assistants
After my last post, I was thinking it was high time I did a post dedicated my two most delightful assistants. Then, I thought, they really should be a more permanent fixture on my blog and so instead...
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Balmakewan
If you happen to be in Scotland driving along the A90, the main road between Dundee and Aberdeen, you might be surprised by the dearth of good eateries along this busy route. However, about halfway...
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Top Temperatures
According to the boffins at the BBC weather centre, Tuesday the 7th of May has been the warmest day of the year so far in Scotland. It also happened to be the day I earmarked for a little day out with...
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The Findhorn Community
In global terms, Scotland is a small country. (In terms of size, it’s apparently smaller than Austria, Tasmania and the US state of Maine.) Although I’ve spent virtually all of my life in Scotland,...
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The little visitor
Today we had a little visitor in the garden, snuffling amongst the leaves next to a hosepipe: Hedgehog with hosepipe. Jolly good for the garden, hedgehogs, as they enjoy a diet of slugs and other such...
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The Wee Blether
Not only is the title of this post a Scottish expression meaning ‘the small talkative one’, it’s also the name of a tearoom that sits in a little village along a dead end road on the north bank of Loch...
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