Posts by Ellie Forbes
Life With a horologist: ‘In watchmaking you can’t cut corners or learn things overnight, it takes time’
Laings watchmaker Annika Leppala on following in her grandfather’s footsteps as a horologist, learning the art of patience in a world full of immediacy and how being a professional oboe player helped her hone her craft. I think sometimes the most important things in life happen by chance, like meeting your partner or finding…
Read MoreThe Good Books, Alison Murray: ‘I keep trying to read in bed but it doesn’t work for me, I just fall asleep’
Children’s author Alison Murray on falling in love with dogs after reading A Hundred and One Dalmatians, her passion for essays and why she can’t read in bed. The first book I remember reading: A very scarily illustrated compendium of fairy stories that was read to me at bedtime and would give me nightmares.…
Read MoreThe Broch: Drystone home on Harris inspired by Iron Age named Scotland’s Greatest Escape
A drystone home on the Isle of Harris, inspired by the Iron Age, has been named Scotland’s Greatest Escape. Situated on the Borve Lodge Estate, The Broch was created by owners, husband and wife Adam and Cathra Kelliher. The couple, who also own Taransay – the UK’s largest uninhabited island – bought the estate in…
Read MoreGlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares
In 2015, former Army Air Corps helicopter pilot John McKenzie decided to bring whisky back to Dingwall after a 90 year absence. His idea was to unite the community of Dingwall through the creation of a distillery owned by local people. Just a year later the site made history running a record-breaking open share offer.…
Read MoreEdinburgh Book Festival: Salman Rushdie, Alan Cumming, Richard Osman, Dolly Alderton and Matt Haig lead line-up
Salman Rushdie, Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Richard Osman, Dolly Alderton and Matt Haig will star at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. New festival director, Jenny Niven, revealed her plans for a reboot of the literary festival, with a series of 1000-capacity interviews at Edinburgh University’s McEwan Hall. It comes following a new partnership with…
Read MoreBest Practices for Maintaining Your Commercial Air Conditioning System
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Read MoreLife With Pollok Country Park: ‘I have the joy of working with one of the best known cattle breeds in the world’
Fourteen years ago Melissa Curran was a city girl who had never been around cattle. Now, an assistant livestock supervisor, she helps care for Pollok Country Park’s herd of 73 Highland Cows. She talks to us about mucking out, calving season and the joy the cows bring to visitors. My work day starts at…
Read MorePuffins begin to arrive back to Shetland for the breeding season
They are affectionately known as the ‘clown of the seas’, with their multicolored bills and bright orange feet. And now puffins have started to return to Scotland for the breeding season, the first beginning to arrive at Sumburgh Head nature reserve, in Shetland, in recent weeks. Scotland is home to around three quarters of the…
Read MoreOsprey who shot to fame in lockdown lays earliest egg of the season
An osprey who rose to fame during the first coronavirus lockdown has laid the earliest egg of the season live on camera in the Highlands. Viral sensation Dorcha and her mate Louis arrived back from their southern migration to their nest in Loch Arkaig Pine Forest in Lochaber on 28 and 30 March respectively. The…
Read MoreMake it to Munich: Tartan Army fans help Scotland daft footballer realise his dream
Ethan Walker might just be the most committed Scotland fan there is. Just eight months after a life-threatening accident, he is currently preparing to cycle 1,200km to watch his heroes play in Germany. In September 2023 the promising young footballer, who left local side Huntly FC aged 17 to attend a football scholarship in America,…
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