Posts Tagged ‘Perthshire’
Gleneagles resumes salmon fishing for the year
Salmon fishing is underway on the River Tay at Gleneagles for 2022. The Gleneagles Hotel offers bespoke salmon fishing lessons for those who have never fished before – and 95% of the guests who have fished with the hotel over the past three years have little or no experience of casting a rod. Additionally, according…
Read MoreLetter featuring Mary Queen of Scots’ handwriting for sale
A letter written more than four centuries ago, featuring the handwriting of Mary Queen of Scots, is to be sold live and online by fine art auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull next Wednesday, February 2. It is thought that the letter could fetch between £14,000 and £18,000, when it goes on sale in Edinburgh. The epistle…
Read MoreScottish schoolgirl selected for Harvard rugby squad
Perthshire’s Charlotte Gilmour will swap Scotland for Massachusetts this summer as she becomes the first student from Strathallan School to be recruited to the Harvard women’s rugby team. The 17-year-old will join the ranks of the oldest rugby club in North America when she starts the next chapter of her education at the Ivy League…
Read MoreRobson Green opens salmon fishing season on River Tay
The official opening ceremony of the River Tay salmon fishing season took place at Meikleour in Perthshire on Saturday. The opening was hosted by Meikleour Fishings and the Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board. In contrast to previous years, the opening was not be a public affair, given Covid guidance. The event will be scaled-down and…
Read MoreMains of Taymouth kicks off 2022 with eco friendly supplier
Mains of Taymouth Country Estate and Golf Course at Kenmore, has further strengthened its eco credentials. Already with six EON electric car charging points on the estate for general use, it’s now providing Cheeky Panda toilet roll, which is created sustainably from 100% bamboo, in all of the estate’s holiday homes. General manager of the…
Read MoreThe February 2022 Scottish Field is out now
Scottish Field’s first issue of 2022 is now in shops and available digitally. We dangle from Scotland’s sea cliffs with rock climbing enthusiast Guy Robertson, and we meet one of the hardest working women on Tiree, local crofter Rhoda Meek, who has taken on Airbnb We chat with Perthshire’s Michael Yellowlees, who, with his four-legged…
Read MoreTen Scottish tales to appeal to children
Acclaimed children’s writer Lari Don retells ten spellbinding fables from across Scotland. She showcase the magic of Scottish storytelling as we meet fairies and selkies, brave warriors and courageous girls, in spellbinding tales from Scotland, from Orkney and Skye to Perthshire and the Borders. The stories included are The Selkie’s Toes, Tam Linn, The Ring…
Read MoreThree more in the running for Scotland’s Best Dog
The search for Scotland’s Best Dog continues on BBC Scotland tonight (Thursday). This week’s hopeful hounds are a French Bulldog, black Labrador and a Collie who go walkies to the Scotland’s Best Dog arena in Perthshire. All three pooches will be put through their paces as they compete to be crowned Scotland’s Best Dog. Like…
Read MoreDog gone it – a fascinating look at our canine friends
At Scottish Field, we love dogs. All sizes, all breeds – we adore our four-legged friends. And we’re not the only ones – Of Dogs and Men is a collection of lovely anecdotes and mythological stories about our canine companions, which maps the evolution and bond between man and dog. Part autobiography and part history,…
Read MoreFamily farm saves death-sentence beavers
A family of beavers has been saved from a death sentence and relocated to a Perthshire family farm in the first such move in Scotland’s history. The beavers, including three kits, were moved to the Argaty Red Kite centre near Doune from prime agricultural land in Tayside, where the Scottish Government’s nature agency NatureScot had…
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