NTS Thistle Camp starts building cruck frame shelter at Ben Lomond

Making the cruck frame at Ben Lomond

This is certainly a holiday with a difference. Continue reading

‘If you go down to the woods to play’: invitation from Blarbuie Woodland

Blarbuie Woodland Enterprise is inviting everyone to come to the woods Continue reading

Islay’s quakes ripple on to Fair Isle

Fair Isle west cliffe © Dave Wheeler Creative CommonsThe series of earthquakes felt on Islay  – with the most recent of them being the five shocks on Wednesday (29th February) – seem to have been passed on up the line from Argyll and the Isles to Fair Isle - with interest.

Lying between Orkney and Shetland, the island everyone knows for the instantly recognisable pattern of its knitted jumpers, was jumping to a subterranean  beat yesterday, with one of the strongest recent quakes to shake UK. Continue reading