Words are the most powerful things on Earth but they are not just on earth – “Houston we have a problem”.
With a word you can reach out from your brain and flick little electrical switches in someone else’s brain. Say “Red” to someone and think how many...

This month I’m digging  deeper into the history of this part of Perthshire which was home to a race called the Picts who called it Birkavia: “the land between the pylons and the turbines”. 
Loch Tay is home to the osprey, a very much protected species of...