Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Charity glitter angel to help children
A Scots family firm has created a Glitter Angel to raise funds for a leading children’s charity. Bridge of Allan-based giftware company Angels’ Share Glass made the bespoke angel for NSPCC Scotland to promote their Christmas Star appeal. The Angel’s design features a star, is filled with glitter and comes with an oak stave stand…
Read MoreThe importance of tweed in country life
A Hume Country Clothing’s Archie Hume has had a life-long relationship with tweed. I wouldn’t go quite as far as saying tweed is my entire life. But, life has largely been at, sleep, tweed, repeat since I was knee high to a Singer sewing machine. One of my earliest memories is standing in the shop…
Read MoreBig Peat gets ready for some seasonal cheer
We don’t want to say it too loudly, but it’s now September, and Christmas is just a few months away. The Glasgow-based Douglas Laing & Co are thinking ahead, and have announced the release of Big Peat Christmas 2018, a cask strength limited edition release that joins the award-winning Islay Malt Scotch Whisky range. The…
Read MoreThey’re knitting bears to help children in trauma
A close knit team have teamed up with Police Scotland to create cuddly toys to help youngsters bear with traumatic events. Trauma Teddies, which will be kept in police cars around the country and given to distressed children, have been knitted by three talented tenants from Bield’s Whitehill Lodge in Dalkeith. Over the last few…
Read MoreA handy new guide to Scotland on the small screen
A new VisitScotland guide highlighting Scotland as the home of some of the world’s greatest TV has been launched. The booklet, TV Set in Scotland, produced by VisitScotland, contains details of more than 60 television programmes, which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links. It coincides with the 130th anniversary of the…
Read MoreA passion for fabric and love of India led to The Block Hut
Having worked in the fabric industry and fallen in love with India, Perthshire’s Amy McPhail has managed to combine the two for her new business venutre. She recently started her own business The Block Hut, selling contemporary block printed textiles designed by Amy and made in India. A former pupil of St Leonard’s in St…
Read MoreNew Lanark surprises and delights in equal measure
For years I’ve harboured a longing to go to New Lanark. It’s a foible that has completely baffled my nearest and dearest, whose reaction the first time I suggested a day at enlightened mill owner Robert Owen’s settlement was a look of blank incomprehension, followed – once she had realised I wasn’t joking – by…
Read MoreThe incredible transformation of this Georgian property
When Julie Allan and her family moved into their property on Edinburgh’s Gillespie Street, it bore very little resemblance to the family home that it is today. The house had been an HMO and was decidedly unloved. The Allans got the keys just before Christmas and only had time to paint the walls and hastily…
Read MoreBalgove’s latest Night Market takes place this evening
Balgove Larder is hosting its latest summer Night Market today. With a programme of live music, crafts, street food and of course, the best food and drink from the farm shop, shoppers will be able to stock up on fresh produce from the Balgove Larder’s master butchers and vegetable growers as well as a range…
Read MoreTurning back the clock to the days of steam
An Edinburgh hotel is celebrating it history as the city’s lost train station, with a new exhibition. Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian has opened a new display giving guests a rare glimpse in to the hotel’s illustrious past as the iconic Princes Street Station. Uncovering Edinburgh’s Lost Station captures more than 100 years’ history…
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