Balintore Castle Restoration Project

Supplies for restoring a castle are not, unfortunately, to be found at your neighbourhood DIY superstore. Sometimes bespoke items have to be...

Forget your Scone Palace and Stone of Destiny, when there is Balintore Castle and the Stone of Hernia. One of the Balintore Castle gate lodg...

When I got back to the castle around a month ago, the broadband was so slow that my computer thought the Internet was broken. Roughly 50% o...

There's nothing like the imminent arrival of guests at the weekend to motivate some flower arranging. Out with the virtually dried daff...

Strike me off the register of antique aficionados. I have just created a composite fake i.e. putting together two unrelated pieces to form a...

My previous blog entry on the mediaeval well stone discovered in the area prompted a flurry of communications on the topic, and I have been ...

Blog entries of late have taken a rather serious, near academic, turn. So what better time to revel  in the glorious small details of life ....