Posts by Kenny Smith
Have you lost a kitten, Daniel Craig or Yoda on a staycation?
Where would you find an Indian wedding necklace made of £50 notes, a tartan wedding dress, a golf buggy, a 5ft wedding cake piñata, two tickets to Houston, Texas, a British shorthair blue kitten called Rocky and a life-size Yoda doll? Where else but Scotland Travelodge Lost & Found offices?! Today, the UK’s first budget…
Read MorePoet releases first collection The Last Days of Petrol
Award winning poet and spoken word artist Bridget Khursheed has published her first full collection of work. Bridget, who is based in Darnick in the Scottish Borders, is delighted with the relase of The Last Days of Petrol, which is available now from Shearsman Books, all good bookshops and online. A poet and self-cponfessed geek,…
Read MoreA recipe for a warming salted honey hot toddy
It’s National Hot Toddy Day tomorrow, January 11, and to mark the occasion, Old Pulteney has created a gorgeous Salted Honey Hot Toddy recipe. Old Pulteney, The Maritime Malt, presents their salted honey twist on the well-loved classic. Featuring a 12-year-old Scotch from the UK’s most northernly shores and tasting notes of salted honey, anise,…
Read MoreFree bus travel for under-22s across Scotland
Young people and children can now access free bus travel, by applying for a National Entitlement Card (NEC). The Young Persons’ (under-22s) Free Bus Travel Scheme was announced in November 2021, offering young people across Scotland free bus travel. From today, young people aged five to 21 years can apply for a card to allow…
Read MoreBehind the scenes of a Scottish caravan park
A new TV series going behind the series of a Scottish caravan park has arrived on our screens. On Fife’s coast, three generations of the Wallace family built and now run the Pettycur Bay Holiday Park, one of Scotland’s biggest caravan parks, mucking in whatever the job. The staff who help them are like extended…
Read MoreA delicious vindaloo recipe for Veganuary
January is here, and that means that Veganuary is back. Over the next two weeks, we’re presenting recipies courtesy of four-time Sunday Times bestselling authors and co-creators of BOSH!, Henry Firth and Ian Theasby, who have sold more than one million copies of their plant-based cookbooks. Since they launched the BOSH! platform over five years…
Read MoreNew music and arts festival Otherlands is revealed
A new boutique three-day camping festival is to take place in Scotland this summer. The founders of FLY, one of Scotland’s largest music events, have created a new event, Otherlands Music and Arts. This celebration of culture will take place at Scone Palace, August 19-21- the home of Scotland’s kings and queens. The three-day retreat…
Read MoreAn exhibition to mark the untold Scottish stories
Historic Environment Scotland has today announced a programme of activity to celebrate the Year of Stories. This includes Unforgettable, an exhibition featuring the untold stories of 12 people from Scotland’s history. The exhibition, which opens in April at Blackness Castle, celebrates stories of people from marginalised communities whose lives shaped or were shaped by Scotland…
Read MoreNew tourism adventure launched in the Angus Tour
A new tourism experience, the Angus Tour, has been launched today to encourage people to head off the main roads and routes to Dundee and Aberdeen and explore Angus. Hoping to appeal to people who want to enjoy the best of Scotland in one area, the Angus Tour, Adventure Designed by You, takes in vast…
Read MoreTwo Russian operas are coming in a double bill
Scottish Opera is set to perform a double bill of short, striking Russian operas: the Scottish premiere of Sergei Rachmaninov’s The Miserly Knight and the Company premiere of Mavra, by Igor Stravinsky. Adapted from stories by Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Alexander Pushkin, The Miserly Knight is a brooding story of a father and son…
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