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Best beach My dad lived in Tayport when I was growing up so I spent every second weekend and half of my school holidays there. My favourite beach has to be Tayport, stretching into Tentsmuir. I have a handful of memories when it was sunny, but I loved grey days and have so many memories of wandering down to the tank traps and finding bits of pottery. You also have the forest practically on the beach and feel you can walk forever.
Best building My favourite is a ghost of a building. My grandad was a builder in Stirling and one of his buildings was the Stirling Provost Pool, known later as Rainbow Slides. I always felt a sense of propriety over it.
May 3 2021, 8.00pm
I know a guidebook that describes the standard issue uniform of a sand martin as “upperparts uniform brown and underparts white with distinct brown band across breast”.
It doesn’t actually use the word “dull”, but I sense an unwritten subtext at work.
I carry a torch for sand martins. They have a particularly treasured place in my idea of spring.
In the landscapes I inhabit regularly, they are among the first migrants to take a bow.
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Sand martin.
The commitment they make to fly from beyond the Sahara Desert to the River Balvaig, say, or the Allan Water or Sheriffmuir convinces me of the certainty of one more spring determined to defy the odds of climate change and take its place in the pageant of seasons.
Letters
The original pylon pictured here, at the site of the Battle of Sheriffmuir, was replaced with one more than twice the height I READ with interest your article “Time for our battlefields to be protected” (April 16), and the fact that continued attempts have been made to encroach on the Culloden site, bringing this to the fore. I live on the fringes of one of the most ignored sites of all: The Battle of Sheriffmuir, 13th November 1715, the site of the first Jacobite rising. This location was badly mutilated in the late forties by the installation of what was at that time the drive to provide electricity for all, by the erection of a very large pylon line right through the middle of the battlefield.
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