Balintore Castle Restoration Project

A friend of Balintore has kindly volunteered to have a go at restoring the original bath from the castle which was discovered rather the wor...

Blog updates this year have been severely impacted by the day job. However, it is good every so often to escape from the world of work, and ...

  a Sugar Glider doing its thang I hadn't seen my good friend Damian for ages due to Covid, and when I received a dinner party invitatio...

With my ear to the ground for other infeasibly overambitious restoration projects, the case of the imperilled Hopwood Hall outside Rochdale ...

Four times in my life I have had to clear out a freezer that has been switched off. On each of these occasions, the power had been off for s...

One of the fun "Open Day" events was a "Platinum Jubilee Bake Off", suggested by friend of Balintore Emma. For my sins, ...

Thanks to Emma, Simon, Gregor and Liam for decorating the castle today! This is in preparation for the Balintore Castle Platinum Jubilee Ope...