The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016 /

    High on the hillside above Culross Palace are the peaceful ruins of a very old monastery with links to St Mungo and St Serf

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    Orkney: the Earl’s Bu and some eventful Christmas feasts

    December 14, 2023

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015
  • Book review: ‘Scotland’s Merlin’ by Tim Clarkson

    July 14, 2016 /

    “And in the battle of Arfderydd my torc was of gold…” From ‘Yr Afallennau’ (‘The Apples’), a poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen I don’t know about you, but when somebody mentions the name ‘Merlin’, an image of a bearded sorcerer pops straight into my mind, quickly followed by King Arthur and several valiant Knights of the Round Table.   Add a couple of fire-breathing dragons, a gleaming but inaccessible sword, and a darkly beautiful villainess, and by this time I’m probably thinking about re-watching the excellent TV series starring Colin Morgan in the title role. I have always been interested in the theories about the origins of Merlin, the…

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    Looking again at lichen

    September 3, 2013

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020

    The Hazel Tree – now on the west coast!

    January 31, 2018
  • Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South

    July 7, 2016 /

    Stepping down through the layers of time into the darkness of a Neolithic chambered cairn

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    The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

    August 7, 2013

    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015

    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017
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    "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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