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Short-eared Owl
By Dave Goulder
Ten of them, squat
at the road edge, wide-eyed
to the approaching car,
each behind the other, reflecting
headlights.
Rural cats-eyes marking
the long single track,
Loubcroy to Elphin, carving
high moorland
recently ploughed, planted.
Dwarf pines, inches high,
good hunting for a while,
half
Men
Release date (UK): 2022
| Country: UK |
Running time: 100 min
| Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
| Director & Writer: Alex Garland
| Starring: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu.
| BBFC 15
By Jack Weir
Alex Garland’s latest film is a hilariously harrowing folk horror film that criticises toxic masculinity with nuance and
Living off the Grid
Wildwood, by Elinor Florence
by Liz Treacher, Author
Do you ever long for a simpler life? Could you live off the grid? Canadian author, Elinor Florence, explores this in her novel Wildwood (Dundurn Press, 2018).
I met Elinor this summer when she came to Brora to do some research into
Dr J. D. Macrae: more than a physician
71 years after his death, Dr Macrae (1872-1951) is a name well-known by many in the Highland communities of Creich and Kincardine. To give him his full name, Dr James Donald Macrae M.B. C.M. M.D. was – besides being a Doctor of Medicine – a dedicated spokesperson
The Fuath and the Brollachan
Along a burn by Loch Migdale, there was once a mill named Moulin na Vaugha /Fouadh, ‘Mill of the Fuath’, haunted by the Fuath and her son, the amormphous Brollachan.
The Fuath (from Scottish Gaelic, meaning ‘hate’, and pronounced ‘vough’ in English) was a class of malevolent spirits in Scottish
Balnagown Arms Hotel: The inn around which Ardgay village was built
Once described as one of the best known hotels of the Highlands “where royalty and statemen have frequently stayed”, the Balnagown Arms Hotel started off as a farm house converted into an inn in 1817 to serve people travelling along the new Telford road.
By Silvia Muras & Donald Brown