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In June of last year, I published two blog entries  Botanical Notes 1 and Botanical Notes 3. You may have...

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In the last few months, I have been telling myself to get out the car whenever a scene that makes an impression through the car windscreen, might register as a photograph.

In practice, I rarely do as my phone is doubling as a Sat Nav. Google Maps tends to lose the plot in the absence of a mobile signal and certainly does not like photographic interludes. Also leaving t...


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David Renwick Grant (5th May 1941 - 5th June 2022)

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At 4:26 AM this morning, I was awoken from an ultra-deep sleep by a violent and heavy pomelling on the base of my neck. As I am the only person in the castle, it was extraordinarily alarming. Who was doing this? Somebody else was there right behind me.

When a real-world stimulus stirs us out of deep sleep, the sensation is a painful and an almost nauseous wrench. I think ...

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Amidst the slings and arrows of the current battlefield that is Balintore Castle (await future blog entries), there are still small day-to-day restoration wins that lift the heart

A couple of original drawing room doors were re-hung in their original positions this week, and today an entire end wall of the drawing room was sheeted with a batch of very thick b...


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