Welcome to "Man with two dogs" - the family website for dog owners and dog walkers.

EAST, WEST, home's best   The Doyenne and I can only imagine ever living where we do on the east coast but, as I wrote last week, Scotland's west coast is so attractive and varied that we never tire of returning there.

GOING BACK to old holiday places can sometimes be disappointing because everything has moved on while the memories and old photographs have stood still.

WORDS ARE my seed corn and I like to see them used properly   The idea of wind farms just seems a complete anomaly to me   Nobody grows wind, nobody ploughs the fields and scatters wind seeds, nothing is cultivated.

THE BEST time to watch seabirds is now, the breeding season, when they come onto land to nest   All their energies are concentrated on incubating their eggs, feeding their chicks and other family matters, and they are not going anywhere else   A good place to watch them is the RSPB seabird reserve at Fowlsheugh near Crawton, between Catterline and Stonehaven, which they return to each year in their tens of thousands.