Lightly Peated

One of the great post-war writers on architecture and the built environment was Ian Nairn. He was passionate, idiosyncratic, and angry, especially…

I haven’t been to the Isle of Wight for very many years and maybe it has changed so it is now all…

How much are you willing to pay for your whisky? How much extra are you willing to pay for an incremental gain in…

I’m sitting, overlooking the harbour eating fish and chips. In front of me a heron gull is perched on a railing and I…

These standing stones at Glengorm are just a few miles away from Tobermory distillery. Mull as an island is rich in standing stones…

Sometimes casual remarks or random opinions can lead you in the wrong direction. For example when I was a young boy I overheard…

Like most visitors to Vancouver I have walked round Gastown, the oldest part of the city, and taken a picture of the…

It was a dark and cloudy November night in 1945 when Rueben Martirosoff took a telephone call at home. “I have to go…

I thought I was done with Jay Pomeroy but research is never neat and tidy and fully resolved. There are always threads left…

I have written many, many more words about Jay Pomeroy than I would have thought possible. Now though, I have now come to…