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  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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    The stones of Kilmory Oib

    May 26, 2015

    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    The dark mill of Coilebar

    August 25, 2018
  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017 /

    Often seen as an intruder in old woodlands, the sycamore still deserves a second glance for its beauty - and older specimens could tell a tale or two about bloodshed and drama!

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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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