The Talisker Chicken
Outside the Talisker distillery there is a hut that sells good coffee and tray bakes. This morning, having driven up from Fort William…
Read MoreWhat Would Nairn Have Thought
One of the great post-war writers on architecture and the built environment was Ian Nairn. He was passionate, idiosyncratic, and angry, especially…
Read MoreLooking Backwards at Ben Nevis
I haven’t been to the Isle of Wight for very many years and maybe it has changed so it is now all…
Read MoreHow Much Will You Pay
How much are you willing to pay for your whisky? How much extra are you willing to pay for an incremental gain in…
Read MoreIn the Centre of Oban
I’m sitting, overlooking the harbour eating fish and chips. In front of me a heron gull is perched on a railing and I…
Read MoreStanding Stones
These standing stones at Glengorm are just a few miles away from Tobermory distillery. Mull as an island is rich in standing stones…
Read MoreTobermory and Preconceptions
Sometimes casual remarks or random opinions can lead you in the wrong direction. For example when I was a young boy I overheard…
Read MoreBC LCLB guns for SMWS
Like most visitors to Vancouver I have walked round Gastown, the oldest part of the city, and taken a picture of the…
Read MoreThe Black Market
It was a dark and cloudy November night in 1945 when Rueben Martirosoff took a telephone call at home. “I have to go…
Read MoreKritz Not Pomeroy
I thought I was done with Jay Pomeroy but research is never neat and tidy and fully resolved. There are always threads left…
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