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Posted on July 31, 2018 by David

  I never promised that this blog would be in any way current. Never promised to keep my finger on

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The Talisker Chicken

Posted on June 14, 2018 by David

Outside the Talisker distillery there is a hut that sells good coffee and tray bakes. This morning, having driven up

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What Would Nairn Have Thought

Posted on June 13, 2018October 9, 2018 by David

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

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Looking Backwards at Ben Nevis

Posted on June 12, 2018October 10, 2018 by David

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

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How Much Will You Pay

Posted on June 11, 2018 by David

How much are you willing to pay for your whisky? How much extra are you willing to pay for an

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In the Centre of Oban

Posted on June 9, 2018 by David

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

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Standing Stones

Posted on June 8, 2018 by David

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

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Tobermory and Preconceptions

Posted on June 7, 2018October 9, 2018 by David

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

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BC LCLB guns for SMWS

Posted on February 6, 2018February 8, 2018 by David

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

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The Black Market

Posted on December 5, 2017December 9, 2017 by David

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

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