Cabrach Telephone Box
This photograph of the Cabrach Telephone Box featured in the Scotsman, 11 February 2021. When we lived at Tillybin, Aberdeenshire, there was a red telephone box at the road end. … Continue reading Cabrach Telephone Box
Tag: Intensely Local
Arory-bory-Alice
In Chapter Three of The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd you will find a delightful family conversation about the northern lights, the aurora borealis: Footnote: The above painting is of … Continue reading Arory-bory-Alice
suicide cairns
You may not be aware of this, but across Scotland there are surviving cairns which mark where somebody who had taken their life was once buried. Generally the names have … Continue reading suicide cairns
Brodie’s cairn
Brodie’s Cairn, Parish of Aberdour: The tradition is as follows: Footnote: I made this film over ten years ago at Clenterty farm, where a ‘Peter Gordon’ once laboured: Intensely Local: … Continue reading Brodie’s cairn