2025 is a week old already and Christmas and Hogmanay seem like distant memories. There are reminders though – the fake tree is still sitting at the bottom of the stairs waiting to be reinterred into one of the rooms-of-doom upstairs, half a tub of cranberries sits hopefully in the fridge and will no doubt …
Social media has its downsides but can also be a fantastic tool for connecting with people and making discoveries. We were recently tagged on Twitter by the Friends of Cambusnethan Priory who were celebrating the birthday of the architect who designed the priory, James Gillespie Graham. Gillespie Graham was a prominent Scottish architect in the …
I achieved the almost impossible this weekend and managed to extract Niall from the estate, all be it for just a day. We’d been promising the kids a visit to Portavadie since the schools broke up and only had three days left to keep our word. For those not in the know, Portavadie is a …