Dunblane Cathedral reopens
During the lockdown I regularly walked the Darn road, by the Allan Water, to Dunblane. What follows is based on exploring ‘the local’ as widely as I could! A garden … Continue reading Dunblane Cathedral reopens
Tag: Allan Water
The sparkling Tay is there!
The heron, made of iron, had aged rusty, quite beautifully so. The heron’s toes, always a little ungainly, bent awkward by weather and time. The heron, fallen and lost in … Continue reading The sparkling Tay is there!
No.1 Shrub Place
From No.1 Shrub Place, Edinburgh, a dynasty of gardeners grew. No.1 Shrub Place was where Melville Christie and his wife Jane raised their family. Melville Christie was employed as a gardener … Continue reading No.1 Shrub Place
Sandy Islet
On Monday I took a walk along the Allan Water towards Stirling and it’s castle. Leaving Mossgrove, I passed the play-park where children are currently no longer free to play … Continue reading Sandy Islet
Fish Supper
A poem by the Makar of Stirling:
A ‘mytholm’
Ted Hughes described a ‘mytholm’ as meeting of streams. This film is about such a meeting. Where the Allan Water goes Forth. Mytholm: To play this film please click here … Continue reading A ‘mytholm’
Stevenson’s cave
This is the cave on the river Allan that Robert Louis Stevenson felt had always been “a part of me”. My family used to own Drumdruils, where the cave is … Continue reading Stevenson’s cave
It is not down in any map
Last week I went for a late evening walk along the Allan water with a friend of mine and my son Andrew. We saw Stevenson’s cave before arriving, in the … Continue reading It is not down in any map