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This is my countryside diary which appears each Saturday in the Courier & Advertiser newspaper.

Archive for January, 2005

Spring stirs and Rabbie Burns

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

NODDING SNOWDROPS and the lengthening days are welcome signs of impending Spring. (…read on »)

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Iron Age man and sunsets

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

IT WAS only a fortnight ago that I wrote about the Brown Caterthun, one of the two Iron Age forts which lie to the west of Brechin, but I make no apologies for writing so soon afterwards about the White one. (…read on »)

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Native Scottish wildcat

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

MACBETH POUNCED on what looked like a dead rabbit lying by the roadside. But it uttered two pathetic yowls and turned out to be a kitten, frost covered and frozen, and seemingly at death’s door. (…read on »)

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Hotchpotch

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

DECEMBER 22^{ND – I walked up the Bishop’s Walk, along by Skinner’s Burn which runs through the narrow ravine separating Brechin Castle from Brechin Cathedral kirkyard. My ancestor George Whitson was minister of the Cathedral Kirk of Brechin from 1804 –1835.}

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