'Troon has all the ingredients for my perfect day out'
Troon has all the ingredients for my perfect day out: there’s a train ride with a view (40 minutes from Glasgow), there’s my little sister, Ria, and her gorgeous dogs Nellie and Nina.
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My key areas of speciality are celebrity interviews, sport, reportage and human interest.
My key areas of speciality are celebrity interviews, sport, reportage and human interest.
Troon has all the ingredients for my perfect day out: there’s a train ride with a view (40 minutes from Glasgow), there’s my little sister, Ria, and her gorgeous dogs Nellie and Nina.
If you ever need a barometer for where you are in life at any given time, then look no further than the internet memes you find yourself smiling and nodding along in agreement with.
WHEN Jenni Falconer laced up her trainers to go for a run in her early days as a rookie TV presenter, she could never have imagined how, almost 30 years on, what began as a hobby to keep fit and clear her mind would have evolved into a key thread of her career.
There’s a great couple of woodland walks and some beautiful views of Loch Leven and, if you're very lucky, you might see a red squirrel.
“While idly perusing a map the other day, there came a startling realisation: I've been to Georgia and California. But I've never been to Dundee.”
It is only a 10-minute walk from my flat, so that is where I went to practise while doing my master’s degree in wildlife filmmaking. It became part of the daily walks during lockdown. It is a place where I honed a lot of my skills. I now know it like the back of my hand.
The thing that nobody tells you when you take up running is how much time you will spend thinking about food. Yes, there is a lot of chat about finding the right trainers, so that you don’t end up with blisters, shin splints, stress fractures and other wince-inducing injuries.
From crime dramas and thrillers to historical fiction and sitcoms, Scotland has become a highly coveted shooting location for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, as well as global streaming giants such as Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Disney+.
Luath Street back then had a tenancy turnover of about three weeks and was locally nicknamed “Sarajevo”. But I gave it a go. Walking round, the Victorian infrastructure was imposing, largely intact, acoustically good and doing nothing. This is a red flag to a bull for conductors, so I had to put on some concerts. My love affair with this special corner of Glasgow started there.
Queen Margaret of Scotland is said to have passed a law in 1288 that decreed any man turning down a leap year proposal should be fined, with the penalty anything from £1 to a silk gown.
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