Balintore Castle Restoration Project

Depending on one's current turn of fortune, "God is in the small things" or "the devil is in the detail". Fortunatel...

Dry rot has an insidious quality. One of the drawing room beams looked OK from above, but after clearing away the surrounding rubble, it tu...

It may not be major structural work, but my builder's recent reconditioning, repainting and re-glazing of the windows in the Great Tower...

A few weeks ago, a lovely couple from Dundee visited Balintore Castle and returned this original pointer from the wind direction dial in the...

I am indebted to the prodigiously multi-talented Duncan Tattersall of the marvellous blog Ruination Scotland  for these scans of old postca...

I recently watched "Skyfall":the latest film in the James Bond franchise. I was delighted that Mr. Bond's back story was flush...

A short blog entry to celebrate the replacement of a drawing room sash window on the east elevation. This may look a deceptively simple oper...