Balintore Castle Restoration Project

A Great Hall need a great light  - and I mean great in both senses! On the 29th August 2024, the huge Art Deco lantern,  collected from an a...

Last Saturday lunchtime, I dined with a delightful lady whose right-side was painted white and whose left-side was painted black. I urged he...

As I passed Gregor in the carpentry workshop at the end of a working day recently, I asked "What have you been up to today?". ...

On the 12th of July this year, I organised a dinner party at the castle for my great friend Görkem (Gorky). Gorky was last in Scotland 10 ye...

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...