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This is my countryside diary which appears each Saturday in the Dundee Courier newspaper.
Archive for February, 2017
Many varied signs of spring
Saturday, February 25th, 2017
DESPITE THE relatively mild winter the countryside has a weary and faded look as if spring can’t come too soon. (more…)
Shrewd observations on drink
Saturday, February 18th, 2017
AT THE end of last week a reader called to tell me he had been watching a small pack of five white fronted geese in a field near Arbroath. Like the other grey geese they are winter migrants to the UK but I associate them with the West coast, especially Islay, and I don’t believe that I have ever seen one. (more…)
Walks by the water’s edge
Saturday, February 11th, 2017
STILL WATER, seawater and wild water are the themes of this week’s piece. (more…)
Writers at one with nature
Saturday, February 4th, 2017
DRIVING OUT of the village to take Inka a walk, I saw a pack of about forty geese preparing to land in a grass field that slopes down to the road. I pulled into the side to watch them. The low winter sun picked up every feather of their plumage. (more…)