The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Purdey’s Hallowe’en hallway horror

    October 29, 2015 /

    From reading about haunted castles and abbeys just recently, it struck me that the stairway is very often the hang-out of choice for ambitious apparitions who want to see some proper hands-on action. I was particularly interested to read a story about Airth Castle near Falkirk, whose phantom dog lurks in a hallway and has a habit of biting people’s ankles.   Believe me, I would soon sort him out.   A fistful of needle-sharp claws in his nose, and he’d go whimpering off back to his grotto. But the idea of haunting a stairway got me thinking.   I love stairs myself, and there’s usually a lot of fun to be had on…

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  • Six more of Scotland’s haunted castles

    October 9, 2015 /

    Scotland will never run short of haunted castles. Since Hallowe’en is approaching, I wondered if you’d like to tiptoe around a few of them with me…

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    A new children’s book

    April 3, 2024

    Thank you

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    Happy New Year

    January 4, 2025
  • Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014 /

    A spooky tour of St Andrews, where it seems that every street and every building has its own spectral inhabitant. Would you wander around here after dark? I'm not sure I would!

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    Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014

    Walking to the Field of the Heads

    July 10, 2018

    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012
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    New book

    "To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

    Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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