Music and the sea each have a heartbeat of their own but they dance to different rhythms. No one knows this better than Dave Pullar, one of the last of the east of Scotland salmon netsmen and owner of probably the largest collection of accordions in Scotland.
BUMBLEBEE SQUARE sounds as though it’s been part of Comrie’s streetmap for generations. The reality is that it’s a community garden and focal point for the village created only a year ago from an empty building site.
THE SEASONS can be tracked by Macbeth’s coat. Throughout the summer he was unwitting host to ticks, picked up from the undergrowth on his hair, which burrow down to gorge on his blood. For a while scarcely a day went by without us having to remove at least one of these unpleasant visitors from somewhere on his body.
EVERY ONCE in a while Nature throws up an oddity.
PLAYING THE Devil’s Advocate can be a tricky business – potentially provoking a contentious debate when I have long said that Man with Two Dogs is non-controversial.