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This is my countryside diary which appears each Saturday in the Dundee Courier newspaper.
Archive for 2017
A picture of the Artist’s Town
Saturday, October 7th, 2017
THE DOYENNE and I are back from a week’s break in Kirkcudbright, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Dumfries and Galloway. (more…)
Dining in memory lane
Saturday, September 30th, 2017
I BOUGHT a Selkirk Bannock in our favourite Farm Shop in deepest Aberdeenshire. Seeing it lying in a basket brought back childhood memories of visiting my Loanhead aunties (outside Edinburgh) who often had it on the table for high tea. (more…)
Keeper’s vital role
Saturday, September 23rd, 2017
TUESDAY WAS one of those memorable days – sunny, soft and sweet – that confirm, if ever I needed confirmation, that I’ve never wanted to live anywhere other than my north-east of Scotland corner of Angus and the Mearns. (more…)
Conkers, conscience, combines, conclusion
Saturday, September 16th, 2017
I DON’T know how many conkers it takes to make an autumn but I’ve been picking up my first ones out walking with Inka. (more…)
Enjoying butterfly moments
Saturday, September 9th, 2017
MONDAY EVENING, setting out with Inka after the ten o’clock news for the final walk, and I still had no idea what to write for today’s column. (more…)
Going Forth to new horizons
Saturday, September 2nd, 2017
VICTIM OF sea winds and salt spray, the ruined chapel and graveyard of St Skae stands atop a rocky headland looking over the North Sea known to Montrosians as the Elephant Rock. I keep an eye out for it whenever I take the train from Montrose to Edinburgh. (more…)
Flights of freedom chime with history
Saturday, August 26th, 2017
A STEADY breeze was blowing over Cairn o’ Mount and, as I neared the summit, what appeared to be a parachute rose from the ground with a figure hanging below it. I stopped in the car park to watch. (more…)
Whale of a lot to do in the country
Saturday, August 19th, 2017
OUT EARLY with Inka when the morning sun is gaining heat the woodpigeons are already gently crooning to one another. (more…)
Sun sets on Angus glens
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
THERE IS magic in the music on a lovely summer day, is the opening line of a song, The Lovely Glens of Angus, which you don’t hear these days – well, I haven’t heard it for a while. (more…)
Poppies and poems
Saturday, August 5th, 2017
POETS’ CORNER in Westminster Abbey commemorates sixteen First World War poets whose names are inscribed on a slab of Westmoreland slate. With one exception they are English. (more…)