Crafty Green Poet

The day before we went on holiday to Dumfries and Galloway we visited Barnton Bunker - Edinburgh's hidden Cold War Nuclear Bunker! It...

  Subtitled History as if Animals Mattered , this scholarly book examines the role that animals have played in history. It is a project of t...

On our recent holiday in Dumfries and Galloway, we visited the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle, which offer beautiful woodland walks. (There...

 One of the conservation success stories of recent decades has been the return of the Red Kite to Scotland (this is something I'll write...

  Caerlaverock is one of the places we visit almost every time we take a break in Dumfries and Galloway, so we made sure we visited last wee...

We spent much of last week in Dumfries and Galloway in the south-west of Scotland. We've visited this area many times, but there are sti...

  This beautiful book looks at a number of fictional gardens, selected to offer a range of different types of gardens in different geographi...