It's many years since I have been down Glen Feshie, and I have few memories of it, other than thinking it was worth a re-visit. It wa...

The Lairig Ghru is a name which reaches back into my young childhood. Around the same time as my Dad read Tolkein to me, he also told me ab...

As readers of this blog will be aware, over the years, I have read about and reflected often on the Shoah , the Holocaust of the European...

Whether performing opera, gospel, or comedy, Jonathan Veira is known as a larger-than-life character, with a powerful voice and big laugh....

If my last Munroing expedition was a disaster in which very little went right ; today's was the opposite - one of the best days in the ...

I picked up this DVD for a quid, in a sale of old LoveFilm stock. In the days before Netflix and downloading was a thing, postal DVD serv...

Due to what railway companies like to call "unforeseen circumstances" I found myself alone in Kingussie one night last week. A...

Trueman is, I think, a one-off. A serious academic, working currently at Princeton; a British minister in the American Orthodox Presbyter...

I have very distinct memories of reading Maxwell's famous "Ring of Bright Water", many years ago while sitting in the Arizo...

Lovely afternoon stroll in the Cairngorms, with old friends.......

This film, although beautifully made, is rather disturbing. Isabelle Huppert plays a coffee planter in an anonymous African Republic, whi...

On The Balhomish track, Murthly Estate, Birnam.