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  • Bluebell enchantment

    April 16, 2015 /

    As our woods start to shimmer with a heavenly blue haze, I'm looking at some of the folklore attached to these beautiful flowers

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    Winter trees in Glen Roy

    December 17, 2025

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024

    Burnet rose

    July 12, 2021
  • Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015 /

    Four dead men and a sackful of live chickens… I'm just waiting for someone to suggest foul play!

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    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015

    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013
  • A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015 /

    For their valuable source of food and their versatile building material, hazel trees have been prized since the dawn of time. But hazel nuts are believed to contain wisdom, and a little bit of magic as well...

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    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022
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