Blue= climbed. Red= Not yet climbed! Munro-bagging, (defined as the attempt to stand upon each 3000ft+ summit in Scotland, having c...

THE TOWN OF THE TAY - PERTH Click on the image - links to a film about Perth, made in 1936.

"The Stone Table", Kinnoull Hill not Narnia. Click on image to see at full size.

Walking in to town for breakfast with my wife - mist hovering low over the Tay.

Dave, I had a word with the Fungus, they assure me that there's plenty of dead wood for everyone to share. 

The storm last May brought down a lot of trees near us, but the chaos of that Monday evening was offset by the nice collection of firewo...

On the hill yesterday, with fog hanging around the Tay below, and the yellow morning sun above.. As ever, click on the image to see it pro...

Some school reading book which my kids had featured a 'bad guy' called "Mr Collins". This Mr Collins, made quite an im...

Looks quite nice at full size - click on the image to see it properly!

  Nestling between the two small hills near our house there is a spring which feeds a pond with fresh water all year round. Even when th...

Some aspects of the so-called "Great British Blues Boom" of the 1960s are disputed. Not least amongst these questions is why so m...

Ooh-eck, I like that! Looks even better full size (click on it to see).

One of the highlights of recent Radio 4 comedy has been "Mark Steel's in Town" in which the radical and acerbic stand-up sati...

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A favourite family stroll starts at Rumbling Bridge near Dunkeld and follows the track alongside the River Braan  to The Hermitage.

One of the best things about the Christmas season this year has been having my parents up in Sc...

The New York based pastor and author Tim Keller (most well know for his Christian apologetic work The Reason for God) , has kept up a q...

During the Cold War era, the lines were drawn clearly. On one side stood communism, state-control of the economy, and lack of human rights ...

I suspect that I am not alone in having failed to sustain overly-ambitious Bible-reading plans in previous years. McCheyne's famou...

This beautiful creature invaded our room last night, and prevented us sleeping for a while by fluttering around our faces. Happily it als...

Sometimes the very best part of a day out  walking is the long trudge home, when the sun drops behind the hills.

Although I have seen the Lynedoch Obelisk on Murrayshall Hill many times, from various angles - I'd never walked out to it before. ...

While I have walked almost every corner of Perth's Kinnoull Hill and Barnhill many times, the hills just beyond them stretching out abo...

-Looking Southwards from the Ski Centre- -'Norris' almost capsizes the sledge- -The Sun dips below the hills, and sledging time will...

Britain's greatest river: The Tay, from Kinnoull Hill

The low winter sun 'bursting' through the woods on Kinnoull Hill, Perth

This week we completed a pilot of "The Parenting Children Course", with a group of friends/fellow parents. Over these five weeks w...

The hills around Perth have experienced their first dusting of snow this week - which lasted a few days and then melted. So far down here cl...