Month: August 2018

Orkney’s wonders

By Ally Reid / 29th August 2018

In August, we had the opportunity to visit a close friend from Edinburgh, who has now returned to her paternal family home in Orkney.  Carrie Paxton is becoming increasingly well known in the Orkney Islands and beyond, for her excellent hand fired, painted glass work, crafted in her workshop at St. Ola, with many pieces…

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World Whisky Day and Edinburgh’s Resident Expert!

By Ally Reid / 8th August 2018

Following on from my own family’s involvment in the making and culture of whisky in Scotland, which I mentioned in my last blog, I thought it might be interesting to share the fact that we have one of the world’s greatest (if not THE greatest!) whisky experts, based here in Edinburgh. Blair Bowman is a…

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