My daughter and I have started to learn to make kilts this summer, thanks to Nikki and Amanda at The…
On long covid, lockdown and hope
Winter this year was a particularly horrible one. The weather was abysmal, I had a reoccurrence of what I now…
Catching up
I realise it has been an incredibly long time since I have posted anything on my blog. Like many others,…
The curious case of Alexander MacGibbon and the Old Statistical Account for Parish of Kilmadock or Doune (1798)
This blog post is somewhat different from stuff I usually write about. As we are all at home due to…
Who will play the silver whistle?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Figure 1:Gillebride as the time-travelling* Gwyllyn the Bard…
The Act of Proscription, tartan and Gaelic culture
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The Dress Act, part of the Act…
The results are in!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. ——— The results are in and I’m afraid…
Ruthven
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. I have become a little bit obsessed…
Old stories
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Old stories are quite wonderful things; sometimes…
What will these threads reveal?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Amazingly up close the darker thread is indeed…
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