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Nigel Webster: “Watching a lump  of clay being converted to a pot is a meditative experience”

Nigel Webster: “Watching a lump  of clay being converted to a pot is a meditative experience”

Nigel Webster from Gledfield Mill Pottery opens the doors of his studio and lets us have a peek at the amazing process of loading, firing and unpacking of the kiln. KC: When did you first become interested in pottery?   NG: For as long as I can remember I have collected

Kyle Chronicle #4

Kyle Chronicle #4

Fifty shades of landscape

Fifty shades of landscape

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area There are two different words for grey in Scottish Gaelic: glas or greenish grey, and liath, a light grey of a blueish hue. Place names in the area related to the glas shade of grey

Celebrating Mrs Shakespeare

Celebrating Mrs Shakespeare

Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell By Liz Treacher, Author Maggie O’Farrell is a skilled writer, deft in expressing the joys and sorrows of family life, and no less so in her latest novel. Hamnet (Tinder Press, 2020) is inspired by the short life of Shakespeare’s only son, who

American History X

American History X

Release date: 1999 | Country: USA | Running time: 119 min | Genres: Drama |  Director: Tony Kaye | Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong | BBFC 15  By Jack Weir American History X follows Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, an ex neo-nazi, in his attempts to stop his younger brother from going down the same dark

The hoeing match

The hoeing match

Back in the 1940s and 50s, the hoeing of the turnip, a time-consuming and back breaking task was made into a competition, alternating each year between The Poplars and Invercharron farms. W. A. M. MacKenzie shares his memories of this event. By W.A.M. MacKenzie Casting my mind back

Forests & forestry people

Forests & forestry people

Forests and Forestry People An overview of the history of the forestry industry in the Kyle of Sutherland By Norman Davidson, curator of the Forestry Memories website Many of us are very familiar with the ‘million dollar’ view from the Struie Road. As a forester I noted the extensive tree