Afoot in the Hills

Yesterday morning the garden was full of the noise of birds, happy, one felt, at the return of milder weather and a slightly easier life. Th...

Thanks to peewiglet for recommending SmugMug to us. We have moved photographs  here and will be adding to existing albums (particularly ...

North of Loch Maree lie the wild deer forests of Letterewe, Fisherfield and Strathnashellag. We first visited Letterewe in 1981, bound...

It's a dull dreich day here and snowing again slightly so I'm going to try to digitise some 35mm slides (we've got 1000s of them...

The thaw seems well and truly set in and so it's back to cold, raw and breezy weather. Give me the Alpine calm and intense cold of the ...

Thursday 8 January There hasn't been any more significant snow here for a few days, although flakes are gently falling again this morn...

As expected this abominable project has been given the go-ahead by the Scottish Government. It is an appalling act of vandalism and means th...

Today the Scottish Government will announce their decision on whether to approve the above upgrade which, if given the go-ahead, will see 20...

Wandered across the tracks from the house on a glorious morning to check the posssibility of a ski-tour to a little hill called Cult Hill, a...

No surprise, but it's snowing again here and the nice top-up for the local Ochils which we noticed yesterday, had been scoured a bit by ...