Over the past 18 months or so, there have been two articles published in Comment in relation to the World War Two raid in Telemark in Norway in which a number of British Engineers lost their lives, having apparently learned to ski on Ben Lawers.
The first article...

The water rail is a skulking creature. In Scotland it is sometimes called scarragrise, meaning ‘scared in the grass’, because it creeps about in long grass and reeds.
Formerly it was not uncommon, especially in the islands, and it is recorded among bird remains in...