Victor Meldrew has long extolled the virtues of Glen Affric. I finally managed to pay the wonderful glen a visit this week, and have discove...

The late Professor Bruce, noted classical scholar, biblical critic and exegete, at the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester wrote of his...

In Central London they paid millions for a wobbly footbridge.

Hydro-Electricity is a good thing . Damming this up to make it would have been a very bad thing .

Through the Nevis Gorge

The Lower Falls at Achriabhach, Glen Nevis

The dreaded A82 - no wonder the locals are demanding an upgrade.

The building of the Ballachulish Bridge has according to someone I know who grew up there, both spoilt the area - and reduced dreadful queue...

Looking towards Bidean nam Ban, Glen Coe

Rannoch Moor in bloom and the Buachaille

Outhouse, Glen Nevis The key to effective construction in windy areas is not strength and foundations as you thought. No, it's how big t...

One of the greatest of the church walks I did was the scramble up the Curved Ridge on the Buachaille, over Crowberry Tower and up to the sum...

Buachaille Etive Mor - Glen Coe The irresistible view - that everyone stops to snap!

One of my favourite places... the path to the Nevis Gorge

The beautifully sculptured and majestic Ben Lui is one of the mountains that tower above the little village of Tyndrum. Apparently it's...

Recently felled timber being loaded onto railway wagons, Crianlarich Station.

Ben Vorlich at Loch Earn is a mountain which presents a deceptively sharp, pointed profile when glimpsed from the East. Anyone seeing this h...

A beautiful morning on Loch Earn, with time to stop, wander, pause, reflect, pray and phone home and have a chat to Mrs Hideous. The calm wa...

This Sunday I was on the road again, helping at the wee heilan' church pictured above. The somewhat dour exterior is misleading, the fro...

Finishing my degree coursework has meant that I have been able to do some other things I have wanted to for a long time. One of which was to...

Contending with the bodily wastes of small humans is all part and parcel of parenting. Since becoming a parent eight years ago, and then the...

A post for my children, showing that the towels have a rail to hang on and, nice as they look crumpled on the floor, they dry much better h...

-Almost Midnight-

Mr Boom! from up the road suggested that we take our families for a walk up E. Lomond , one of the two 'Paps of Fife' that tower abo...

"Gone Fishing" A Heron uses the piers of the old Tay bridge in Perth as a perch from which to fish. The delightful Mrs Hideous ha...

The old maxim runs, 'there are many cheap and good books on the market, the problem is that the ones that are good are not cheap and th...

To connoisseurs of fine ale - and indeed all right thinking people - the above is a most alarming sight. Well past it's best , indeed! W...

On the cliffs: Isle of May OAFs = Outdoor Activities Fellowship Puking = Me: there was a bit of swell on the sea between Anstruther and the...

Another Sunday, a contrast to last week which was in a busy town church, to a small country one. Different style, different sermon, differen...

One of the advantages of being a theology student are the invitations that come in to help the odd church here and there with their services...

There are two kinds of walking books. There are firstly the 'how-to' genre of route guides and technical manuals describing either t...

Cairn Toul from Braeriach Braeriach! What a wonderful sounding hill. Sadly, its English translation (unlike some Gaelic hill-names) is rathe...

In the Lairg Ghru (looks a lot better if you click on the photo and get it full size) The path from the Sugar Bowl Car park, leads ...