Posts by Kenny Smith
Look around your new home – before it’s built
How would you like to take a virtual reality tour of your future home? Neat Living homes are a turnkey solution for customers seeking to build their own home on their existing land or a new plot. Future-proof Neat Living Flex homes have an A rated Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) so that customers will be…
Read MoreStep into Christmas with New Lanark’s olde world charm
New Lanark looks wonderful and historic – and even moreso in the festive season. There’s a lot going on at New Lanark World Heritage Site this festive season, from festive lunches and dinners, to disco party nights, Christmas Carols by Candlelight, Pantomime and special visits from Santa Claus to help light up the eyes of…
Read MoreSupport for volunteers is a priority for the NTS
The National Trust for Scotland is celebrating after finding out it has retained its Investing in Volunteers accreditation. The conservation charity is sharing the news today, International Volunteers Day. Investing in Volunteers (IiV) is the national standard for volunteer management in the UK. The National Trust for Scotland has held the IiV accreditation since 2009…
Read MoreA sentimental journey from Italy to Orkney
The Highland Games Ambassador by Jackie Roy sees Luca travel from his home in Italy to Orkney, where his father was interned as a prisoner of war in World War II, to fulfil his father’s dying wish. Attracting media attention by financing Scotland’s first Highland Games Ambassador leads to secrets of his past being unravelled. This…
Read MoreArdlamont House offers two centuries of class
Ardlamont House is a handsome detached Georgian house near Tighnabruaich, in Argyll and Bute. Protected by a category B listing, it is presented for sale by Robb Residential. The property dates from approximately 1820 and is laid out over two storeys with a garden level. Following the destruction of Toward Castle in the 17th century,…
Read MoreOnly 184 bottles of 40-year old whisky available
The Benromach Distillery Company Ltd is releasing an extremely rare and limited-edition Scotch malt whisky matured for 40 years in a single Refill Sherry Hogshead cask. Building on the popularity of previous vintage releases from the 1970s, 184 bottles of Benromach 1978, from cask number 2608, are available for worldwide sale. The single cask whisky…
Read MoreThe Snowman is coming to venues all over Scotland
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is bringing Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman to audiences across Scotland. They will be joined by tenor, BBC Scotland and Scottish Proms in the Park presenter Jamie MacDougall for its annual RSNO Christmas Concerts this Season, performing to audiences in Perth, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Since 2001 Jamie has been the nation’s voice of classical music…
Read MoreOpening date for new Edinburgh restaurant
Edinburgh-based Vittoria Group have today revealed the opening date and menu for their latest new eaterie, Bertie’s Restaurant & Bar. The 300-cover Bertie’s restaurant in Edinburgh’s Old Town will open on Monday, 10 December, and will be the group’s first foray beyond the Italian food markets, having opened their first restaurant in 1970 in the Leith neighbourhood.…
Read MoreMake some tasty raspberry shortbread
We love our shortbread in Scotland – so here’s a recipe on how to make your own. Scottish Blend, a brew specially blended for Scottish water, have teamed up with independent Scottish bakery, Pinnies and Poppy Seeds to create five special shortbread flavours. Shortbread extraordinaire, Jennifer Hunter, runs her own bakery in Edinburgh, and has…
Read MoreDark Art Gin is all set to rise in former school
A bid to create a new craft gin company and distillery in Kirkcudbright has won the inaugural Guy & Co-creation Award. The idea for the Dark Art Gin company was submitted to the competition by Andrew Clark Hutchison, a former banker who spent 12 years of his career specialising in the food and drink sector,…
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