Perth FM news (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Perthshire couple's horrifying ordeal A Perthshire couple are recovering after a terrifying hour long ordeal in their home last night. Just before 9 o’clock three masked men entered their house near Pitcairngreen and tied the couple up. A 57-year-old man was then assaulted and threatened with a knife and other weapons and at one point during the incident he was taken from the house and thrown...
Politics Index (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With Mr FM in Scotland I'm relying on the kindness of a reader to transport to the delights of the King's Arms tonight. Last night I was at The Red Lion East Chisenbury. Bloody fantastic - book a meal there. The Salted Almond Ice Cream with the Chocolate Fondant will live in my memory for a long time.
Intagliod Up in Blue (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
If the spinal column were a chest of drawers, what would be contained? Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks and the party to begin when someone walks through a door. This morning's smoothie--cherry, vanilla, with almond extract and megadoses of cinnamon. Visiting artist from Scotland. A Blake scholar. A printmaker. A diner at Lindy's with me and L-Bo and the lovely Charlene, on Sunday night. Chocolate velvet...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
A BODY recovered from the River Almond in West Lothian last month was named by police yesterday as John Boylan.
Life on a Small Island (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Last week I found nirvana in a chocolate shop in a wee village in the north-west of Scotland. I should explain that chocolate is as important to me as air is for breathing. At island parties parents ensure I have a party bag of chocolate and sweeties so I don't steal any from the kids. OK not one of my more endearing traits, but it demonstrates the seriousness with which I regard chocolate. Imagine...
Kotzers in England (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
The last week of July and the first week of August we drove up to Scotland for a holiday with my parents. We first stayed in a self catering place in Edinburgh. We visited Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh Castle, shopped the Royal Mile, did a "haunted" night tour of the vaults (areas underground that poor people ended up sleeping/living), took a day trip to some of the surrounding sites and of...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Photographer Ryan McGinley loves the Mexican food from Downtown Bakery. If you read New York 's article “ "Warhol’s Children" ” about Ryan McGinley's escapades with his longtime friend the late Dash Snow, you know his photography captures the young, pretty things he keeps around. So it’s no surprise that the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney (in 2003)...
NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
I received several beautiful books today sent to me all the way from New Zealand by David Howard. A carefully packaged set of poetry books. The most beautiful book that stands out for its lovely colorful hard cover is – Fire- Penny by Cilla McQueen : THE LAST GREAT AUK When sternly the minister expunged from our discourse the ancient spells and poetry, we became as gloomy as if we had gazed on...
Sunny Dunny (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
From 1976 to 2000 I lived in Mid Calder, West Lothian, very close to Calder Wood, from which my press is named. The wood was part of the Almondell and Calder Wood Country Park. The Calder Wood part was left natural and only lightly managed, and I loved that. It was full of wildlife and wildflowers - the bluebells were fantastic. Almondell was the Park headquarters, with a visitor centre, the Ranger...
Tour Scotland (Free subscription) | 20/04/2009
Tour Scotland Glenalmond. This is a glen in Perthshire , Scotland. It is situated some twelve miles to the west of the city of Perth and forms the upper portion of the strath of the River Almond. Tour Aberdeen , Tour Edinburgh , Tour Glasgow , Tour Inverness , Ancestry Tour of Scotland . Best Scottish Tours , Best Scottish Food , Best Scottish Hotels , Small Group Tours of Scotland , Rent a Cottage...
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Tim Almond has picked up a particularly stupid and worrying judgement from some idiot Sheriff in Scotland . A man who took a photograph of an ill woman outside an Edinburgh bar has been fined £100 after being branded “unchivalrous” by a sheriff. Unchivalrous? We’re going to bring chivalry into the law, are we? Can we also start rounding up cads and bounders, too? Well, I look...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
AN ENVIRONMENT watchdog is investigating the cause of an oil spill polluting the River Almond in West Lothian.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
The Turner-Prize nominated artist Darren Almond points to the faint line of light streaking across a photograph of Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle-to-Carlisle railway. Cutting through the misty landscape, it marks the journey of the night mail-train from Scotland, captured in a long exposure that was lit only by the moon. "I was jumping for joy when I heard the train coming," says Almond,...
A Luxury Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2007
Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of witnessing a wonderful natural phenomenon in central Scotland - a salmon leap up a waterfall on the River Almond, near Crieff. I had read about the relatively little-known location of Buchanty Spout and understood that the season for observing salmon leaping in the UK was September and October. (I say [...]
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