The Machrie is the perfect place for an escape

Summer is a distant memory. Days are getting chilly, breath visible as you leave the house and cheeks pinched red. Escaping to warmth or hibernating until spring becomes all the more appealing. Thankfully, The Machrie excels when it comes to cosy spots that tick all the right boxes: crackling log fires, piping hot hearty food…

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Stirling Highland Games launches virtual programme

Traditional heavyweight competitions, a pipe band and cookery demonstrations are among the online events showcased at Stirling Highland Games this month. Organisers have unveiled an exciting programme of virtual activities to entertain families, food-lovers, history buffs and Highland Games competition fans from home and abroad on Saturday August 21. Spectators can watch competitors take part…

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We chat gin and rugby in the Scottish Field podcast

If you like your gin and competitive sport, then this week’s Scottish Field podcast is just the one for you. This week, our podcast sees Scottish Field’s own John Boyle join web editor Kenny Smith, as they have a chat about the magazine’s annual gin challenge. The 2021 results appear in this month’s magazine, where…

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Nine new works ready for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is to premiere A Night by the River Tay, nine new works from some of Scotland’s best known playwrights. Starting on Wednesday 14 July and performing on just 10 dates over five weeks, Pitlochry Festival Theatre will premiere A Night by the River Tay, a series of live performances of their hugely…

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The Queen’s Balmoral stud manager comes to the fair

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust Scottish Game Fair has announced a special guest for this year’s event. Celebrating conservation and the countryside, this year’s fair, with headline sponsor NFU Mutual, takes places from 24-26 September at Scone Palace. The GWCT Scottish Game Fair has announced that Sylvia Ormiston, stud manager at the Balmoral Estate,…

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Game of Thrones star and Victorian society in our podcast

Hopefully it’s not an unlucky thirteen, as Scottish Field’s latest podcast arrives. In our 13th edition of the Scottish Field podcast, Morag Bootland has a chat with actress Kate Dickie. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the BBC series Tinsel Town and Lysa Arryn in the cult series Game of Thrones.…

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The fascinating tales of boarding school sports

An old Etonian? A recent Wykehamist? Remember the good old days at Edinburgh Academy? If you have fond memories of boarding school or are a sports historian then you will find this book fascinating. Malcolm Tozer has collated the pre-rugby early codes of football from an array of public schools in the 19th century, including…

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Scottish Craft Beer Festival to get underway in stores

Lidl’s Scottish Craft Beer Festival hits stores this week with a host of new and exclusive Scottish drinks. The festival features 19 beers from 11 different Scottish brewers including fan favourites and debuts set to become this summer’s must-try beers. Dundee-based 71 Brewing leads the line-up with two new beers exclusive to Lidl. In a…

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The Great Game rugby documentary is underway

A new documentary marking the 150th anniversary of the first ever game of international rugby is being produced. It saw Scotland beat England at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh on 27 March 1871 and now filming has begun on The Great Game, an hour-long documentary that relives the events of 1871 and explains how that game…

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Lockdown lamb II: Last-minute libations

As Maundy Thursday approaches, Peter Ranscombe picks wines from local stores and further afield to serve with your Easter lamb. PERHAPS this year more than any other, Easter feels full of hope. “Stay at home” is about to become “Stay local” on Good Friday. Hairdressers will reopen on Monday – goodbye, mullet – and garden…

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