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Period touches meet masterfully designed interiors at Gartincaber, in Doune, Perthshire.
When the owners of Gartincaber purchased the Scots Baronial house near Thornhill, Perthshire, in 2018, they realised that some minor renovation might be required.
What began as minor rose into major and the property, completely refurbished under the watchful eye of Katy Rodger from Katy Rodger Making Interiors, is now on the market with Savills at an asking price of £2 million, having had a total overhaul of the structure, plumbing and electrics, with brand-new kitchen and bathrooms added.
That said, the six-bedroom home retains plenty of period touches, such as ornate plasterwork in the reception rooms and traditional stone and marble fireplaces, to say nothing of the brass lantern and ship’s bell by the front door.
Nature Watch: Hawthorns herald birth of new season by Keith Broomfield
Hawthorn blossoms.
The colour green comes in all kinds of different shades and tints, but none ventures close to the vibrancy of newly emerging hawthorn leaves, with their limey freshness glistening in the spring sunshine, a herald of new life and hope for the season ahead.
Such a tantalising verdant sea unfolded before my eyes at Lochore Meadows Country Park in Fife recently, with a track edge brimming thick with hawthorns.
These small, often bush-like, trees are fundamental pillars of our environment; the brilliant white flowers in May being a magnet for pollinating insects, and the wine-red haws in autumn and winter a vital source of food for fieldfares and blackbirds.
Community councillors object to plans for a new windfarm in the Stirling area
Community leaders for Thornhill and Blairdrummond have unanimously objected to plans for a new windfarm in the Fintry Hills after locals raise concern about views.
View of the Fintry Hills from Thornhill (Image: Submitted)
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The Riddle Of Gannets – Jim Crumley
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on the wing so far from their natural habitat
There were three large birds silhouetted against the sky, apparently making little headway against what was no more than a lively west wind. I knew what they looked like, but if I was right then there was no reason for them to be discomfited by such a wind and, in fact, no reason for them to be there at all.
Except that it had happened once before, about 20 years ago, in almost exactly the same place and at almost exactly the same time of year. That first time I was utterly thrown by the context in which the birds appeared – it was minutes before I realised what they were, though I had seen them many times in their true oceanic context – but not there, and not like that.