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Month: November 2016

writing

Portmahomack and the Picts

When I was eight, our family moved to Tarbat Ness Lighthouse, where my dad was a lightkeeper. This wasn’t his first posting – his first lighthouse was Inchkeith, on an island in the Firth of Forth, but for that assignment he’d go out to the lighthouse for a month, then come back home to Edinburgh… Read More

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Posted 6 years ago November 12, 2016
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Pictish Beast
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The Pictish Beast

I’ve always been fascinated by the Pictish Beast. The Picts left behind very little of their culture, with the exception of the amazing carved stones you can find across Scotland, and while most of the animals on those stones are recognisably snakes, wolves, eagles, salmon, and so on, two-fifths of the creatures carved on the… Read More

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Posted 6 years ago November 10, 2016
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The Stronghold
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Brochs in fact and fiction

When I was at school, a long, long time ago, one of my favourite subjects was History. But for me, the older the history the better – the World Wars and the Russian Revolution, the agricultural and industrial revolutions, these were all very well, but what I really wanted to study was the dawn of… Read More

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Posted 6 years ago November 8, 2016
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