£2 million European funding to protect machair from coastal erosion
Scotland’s – and Argyll’s – glorious areas of machair, unique wild-flower, herbs and grasslands developed specifically to secure coastal dune systems from wind erosion, are under serious threat from...
View ArticleDiseased: The Herald’s golf scribbler on Trump’s Balmedie course
Ambition? How embarrassing. Success? How louche. Initiative? How noisy. Change? Why? Today’s edition of The Herald (17th February) carries a half-page spread on Page 11 on Donald Trump’s publishing of...
View ArticleEllis Cameron: Hair work
Even although we’ve finished all our assessed coursework for second year, we still have another project to work on until term ends. It’s self-directed and outwith the studio, so it’s been fairly free...
View ArticleTwo weeks to go: Day out at Auchindrain with traditional music and crafts
Two weeks from today, on Sunday, 26th August, from 10.00am to 5.00pm, Auchindrain is hosting a day of traditional music and crafts.Look forward to the Inveraray Pipe Band, fresh from the World Pipe...
View ArticleLiberalism lost and found
This has nothing much to do with the UK Liberal Democrat Party, as it stands – or falls; but it could do.Surveying the demolition of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland and the catastrophic collapse of...
View ArticleMurphy’s Irn Bru tour for the Union
A couple of Irn Bru crates to stand on [sometimes]. A mic [occasionally]. ‘Yes’ hecklers [always]. Humour and hard facts [a constant]. And the potential spoiler to end all spoilers – Oban’s seagull...
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