Balintore Castle Restoration Project

An update on the multi-lingual versions of the Balintore Castle Restoration blog... In addition to the French version described in my last ...

I have recently been approached by a couple of undergraduate students, called Lorenzo and Dylan, from the University of Toulon.  They are in...

In my previous blog entry , there were some photos of a cast iron address stamp for Balintore Castle sent to me by the purchaser of this his...

I received an email out of the blue a couple of weeks ago. The sender, Alan, had purchased an job lot of items at auction. On opening a smal...

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...