Arriving on Time
Train journey to Dundee and into the work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Time Travel
Dreaming a metaphor about the nature of lost and the importance of now.
Menopause Projects, Indeed!
Attending the Business and Enterprise Expo, held in conjunction with Business Gateway Scottish Borders at the fabulous Mac Arts,
Threading Time
A visit to Dundee’s Verdant Works stirs memories of generations of women, a beloved sewing machine and the stories held within Gran’s sewing box.
Weeds are weed control
After a year of drought, hungry birds and a distinctly unconventional approach to cultivation, I wonder what my Grandad would have made of it all—and what the allotment and old maps have in common.
Under the Same Stars
From kitchen-cupboard remedies to village-hall ceilidhs, this week’s story wanders through childhood memories of growing up in the north of Scotland.
Bonskeid House, Faskally, with members of the Barbour family in 1920, just prior to it becoming a youth hostel in 1921, my great gran is in the photo, although i am unable to identify her.
Historic Environment Scotland records the present Bonskeid House as an 1881 Andrew Heiton building incorporating an earlier house dating from around 1805. Local historical accounts identify it as the home of the Barbour family before they let it to the YMCA in 1921.
The fingerprints remain on the photograph because it has been held and kept. Bonskeid later became a place from my own childhood when I attended a music camp there during primary school. The house returned to private ownership in 2001.
Historic Environment Scotland: Bonskeid House Listing.
