Balintore Castle Restoration Project

While replacing the third of three plastic downpipes on the exterior of the kitchen wing with cast iron ones, we hit a problem. The ground ...

I have to continually remind people that conditions in a castle undergoing restoration are far from their palatial expectations, and in fact...

A brief update to yesterday's entry. Adding paint thinner to the grey cast iron primer made it go on smoother (without the unevenness pr...

When I bought Balintore Castle most of the downpipes were missing: long since removed by lead and cast iron bounty hunters. To get the roof ...

An archive of historic photographs owned by the Storrier family, has recently been made public. My friend Andrew went to investigate toda...

I took a fortnight's break before Easter with the intention of tiling the walls and floors of Balintore Castle's kitchen wing. Sadly...

One of the greatest local luminaries is Sir Charles Lyell (1797 to 1875), who essentially established geology as an academic field of study...