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  • Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye

    August 6, 2013 /

    This fortress on Skye's north-west coast has stood guard over MacLeod lands for nearly 750 years; and it contains some spellbinding treasures!

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    The Ballymeanoch stones, Kilmartin Glen

    March 13, 2016

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016
  • Winchester’s Round Table

    July 2, 2013 /

    The Great Hall at Winchester Castle houses a tribute to King Arthur, Britain's 'once and future king'. Prepare to be amazed...

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    Culloden: field of sorrow

    January 23, 2017

    Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013

    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021
  • An Adlestrop moment

    June 29, 2013 /

    I’m taking a bit of a diversion from my usual Hazel Tree topics because it’s late June. I think I’d better explain. There are lots of poems that I admire, and while I was remembering some of them recently it occurred to me that most of them are connected with the seasons. And every summer, around about now, the words of Edward Thomas’s ‘Adlestrop’ are going round in my head, and I’m looking for my Adlestrop moment.   Not every summer has one of these, but when it happens you just have to stop and enjoy it.  It doesn’t have to be late June, but it’s even better if it…

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    Midwinter hope

    December 4, 2013

    Midsummer’s Eve

    June 20, 2015

    A poem for Easter

    April 2, 2015
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