I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search......
(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......
The NC500 was 'launched' back in 2015, a tourism marketing strategy to 'sell' the concept of a 'Highland Route 66' taking visitors through some of the UK's most remote landscapes and arguably its most......
I wrote a post last year about the all-important neurochemical responses that make a certain type of storytelling so persuasive and influential to audiences. One of the key neurochemicals involved in that......
There's been a lot of water under Tower Bridge since 2016 but this was definitely one of my favourite surreal moments from that summer. Bob Geldof and Nigel Farage took to the waters of......
*Contains images/video and descriptions of deer culling* *Click images to view larger* *Names have been changed for reasons of confidentiality at the subjects request* Running......
Mixed broadleaf woodland at Jock’s Gill, near Carluke, Clyde Valley, Scotland "...some of the best advice I ever had." said Ben (duckrabbit)......
It started in the wee hours, a distant keening that came and went as the wind gusting in off the Atlantic hustled around our van. It was in the notquitedark, an hour or so......
What's the value of a story? To the reader it might simply be 'entertaining'. To the teller however it might be priceless - particularly if its a carefully nurtured cultural tale, woven around local......
"He's my mate, I mean what else can you do if not something for your mate? So I got him this so he can walk with me, and he loves the beach..." ...
Women photograph? Yes. Why? Why not. How? Easily. Eh? Because they're everywhere. And they're good. And if they don't photograph, we all lose out. So what have they been doing? This: Take a......
When I was in my early teens, around 1976, I took a wander through a few countries in Southern Africa. "You should visit Lesotho" someone suggested. "Great countryside and the Basotho people are really colourful......
I've just had a memorable week. My mum died, and we buried her. That's the short version. The long version? Well, permit me the indulgence to weave a tale that......
It's fairly common these days for the word 'Islamic' to be followed by that second word ''Fun...' but continuing with the additional ...'damentalism' tacked on the end, usually on the front of a newspaper, and......
Every now and again you cross paths with a stranger, and from that collision of orbits something unexpected occurs. It happened to me some......
This will, eventually, be a mild rant. Funny how events from the present can recall, vividly, events from the past. It happened to me a few days ago, in England. But first the past... [caption id="attachment_39116"......
On Father's Day amidst the celebrations that a few of you may be enjoying, take some time out to watch ...
This has been around for a while, but I revisited it this week as I'd been involved in a discussion about the ways that technology 'distances' viewers from nature. I was arguing to the......
Living with a tiger © John MacPherson "Oh Donnie, Donnie, please.....please....straighten yourself up, please! ......
I saw experience yesterday. It was eloquent, supportive, directive, but overwhelmingly caring. I was visiting my mum, who has dementia and is looked after in a residential care home in the Scottish Highlands. A close relative......