Balintore Castle Restoration Project

Further adventures in trying to master wild flower identification. I often see this small purple flower growing at ground level, but have ne...

It's High Summer at Balintore Castle! This year we have neither had the usual biblical plague of rabbits, nor the annual invasion of she...

I am a great lover of nature but do not know enough species names. The philosophical question is whether there are always more names to lear...

Two historically significant letters were found in the castle in the 1960's in the hallway just to the north of the Great Hall. To save ...

Sometimes it is good to just post a photograph from today, rather than get one's knickers in a twist about how to best write and present...

Bob the Terminator Pheasant, documented in an earlier blog post here , was a remarkable bird: holding me hostage at the castle; tormenting m...

What is it with the pheasants this year? Normally, they are shy retiring creatures that dart into the undergrowth the moment you approach. T...