When the rain turns tropical and the sky hangs broodingly low and grey, there is nothing finer than returning to bed mid-afternoon with a good book, an e-cig and a shut-down phone.
Like a modern-day Womble, he’s making good use of things that he finds – the things that everyday folk leave behind.
LIKE a modern-day Womble, he's making good use of things that he finds - the things that everyday folk leave behind.
I’M high in the air atop half a ton of muscle, and I’m nervous. I haven’t been on a horse since I was five years old, on holiday in 1960s Wales, when I was led around some fields imagining I was a knight in armour.
Absolute perfection. A way to see one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland – of the world, in fact – that is unique, and unforgettable.
In a cluttered Victorian drawing room surrounded by blowpipes, handmade apparatus, thermometers and delicate meteorological instruments, Dr John Aitken embarked on his personal and remarkable cloud-busting quest.
FORECASTERS are predicting Scotland's big freeze will turn to autumn-like temperatures in the space of two days.
Drivers pulled over to take photographs of the ice mass at the sea loch. Little wonder, it is a startlingly rare phenomenon to see with the naked eye.
A cold front will sweep in from the North West.
Storm Erik is expected to bring more gusts of up to 70mph.
