I would like to bring my lover here – it is so romantic – French visitor, July 2014
Looking to the future
Such a good time of year, April, with all the summer ahead of us. Spring is certainly here but undecided as to whether to stay or not. Despite the cold winds and hail one or two days have been sitting out days; others not so seductive. Mid-April brought one day when the gloves and woolly…
Hard work and a commendation
I take the Coy Burn Path to the garden, passing over the burn by the Millpond and walking through the board walks. It’s a gloomy day and the after-effects of the various winter storms are evident. Water has obviously been much higher than it is today; sand and silt have been deposited in unexpected places…
Time slips by
Mid-February and dawn in Torphins is about seven o’clock. Outside the morning display of jackjaws and rooks is beginning. Hundreds and hundreds – thousands of birds that have been roosting in the tall trees nearby are wheeling around above the village and swooping, sometimes over my garden, chattering and cawing. Later I will see the…
Notes from Crathes 