Balintore Castle Restoration Project

In June of last year, I published two blog entries   Botanical Notes 1  and Botanical Notes 3 . You may have wondered what happened to Botan...

In the last few months, I have been telling myself to get out the car whenever a scene that makes an impression through the car windscreen, ...

David Renwick Grant (5th May 1941 - 5th June 2022) Foreword When my neighbour David Grant died in 2022, I made a pact with myself that I wo...

At 4:26 AM this morning, I was awoken from an ultra-deep sleep by a violent and heavy pomelling on the base of my neck. As I am the only per...

Amidst the slings and arrows of the current battlefield that is Balintore Castle (await future blog entries), there are still small day-to-d...

Many thanks to everyone who responded to a previous blog entry , offering food and shopping services while I was snowed in at the castle. As...

Osbert Lancaster , the illustrious and witty commentator on the history of British interior décor, has much to say on the Early Victorian pe...