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This is my countryside diary which appears each Saturday in the Dundee Courier newspaper.
Archive for April, 2004
Home winemaker
Saturday, April 24th, 2004
MACBETH AND I took a walk up the Westwater together. It was a great favourite of my Father's, especially at the Meeting of the Waters which is where the Westwater flows into the North Esk. (more…)
Macbeth lives on
Saturday, April 17th, 2004
EASTER SUNDAY was a family day for the Doyenne and me. We drove to join son Robert and his family who were holidaying again at Portknockie, for Easter lunch. We had a colourful, interesting journey driving over high passes, through wide glens and along sparkling riversides. (more…)
The birds
Saturday, April 10th, 2004
THREE MALLARD drakes and a duck were unconcernedly stepping out along the road in that distinctive rolling sailor's gait that they have, as the dogs and I stepped out of the wood. I wondered why they chose to walk just there as the pond is a hundred and fifty yards in one direction, and the stream much the same distance away, in another. (more…)
Historical walks
Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
THE DOYENNE can be pretty eagle-eyed at times, usually when it's least convenient for me! She was in the middle of a meaningful telephone conversation with a friend recently when she broke off to say – “a wren has just flown out of the old swallows nest”. (more…)