Balintore Castle Restoration Project

My wonderful neighbour David took pity on me and invited me round for dinner this evening at his house, charmingly called Fred's Cottage...

In my previous blog entry , I presented Kieran's marvellous pen and ink sketch of the recently restored Great Hall at Balintore Castle. ...

Kieran is one of the horologists who commissioned the longcase clock in the Great Hall at Balintore Castle. Getting the clock running for th...

After the first 30 seconds of the first episode of the first TV series of "Outlander: Blood of my Blood" (the "Outlander...

On my first trip to Orkney, a conversation with a local in a pub in  Stromness, established that the most impressive neolithic site  on the ...

In a most unexpected and uncharacteristic burst of house-keeping, my builders decided to tidy up the area around the castle’s dining room fi...

Even though Angus Council banned the opening ceremony for the newly restored Great Hall at Balintore Castle, one positive outcome is that th...