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Features
Walk of the week: Ettrick Water, Selkirk
SELKIRK bannocks are great – Queen Victoria is said to have enjoyed a taste when she visited the Borders town. Despite royal approval, it is the appreciation of our four-year-old daughter that counts.
Shooting and fishing: Crumpet has turned out to be the best shooting dog we have ever had
TODAY is Crumpet’s birthday. She is four. We shall have a two-barrel salute to celebrate the event at which I predict she will tear about like a blue-arsed fly looking for something to retrieve only to find that, not for the first time in our brief shooting career, there is nothing to pick up.
Outdoors: The grebe, once endangered thanks to the fashion industry, is thriving again
More times than not, my attempts to plan ahead so as to get a good view of an animal or bird ends in failure.
Walk of the Week: Carn na Caim
On the way to the hills the topic of football invariably crops up. Having lived close to Edinburgh’s Easter Road as a schoolboy, Hibs receive my support.
Roger Cox: When it comes to recording the magnitude of surfing exploits, size really matters
ONE rainy day last November, I started receiving a steady trickle of emails with links to the same jaw-dropping photograph: a surfer in a black-and-yellow wetsuit skittering down the face of a huge, aquamarine wall of water, looking for all the world like an exotic insect fleeing the maw of an about-to-snap venus flytrap.
Walk of the Week
Walk of the week: Faskally Wood, Pitlochry
FULL of the cold, I set off on a walk with the nagging thought that my ailment might be flu – or worse.
Leaving Pitlochry, the hustle and bustle gradually died away until the A9 was behind and Faskally Wood enveloped the senses.
Walk of the Week: Tentsmuir
HOPING for drier weather, a few weeks ago Jimbo and I went to Tentsmuir, so named when a Danish fleet in the 1780s was shipwrecked and some of the sailors settled there, living in tents on the moor.
Walk of the Week: Invertrossachs
THE Trossachs in summer can be a busy place. No wonder, really, with such picture-postcard scenery within an hour of Scotland’s two biggest cities.
Walk of the week: Elephant Rock, Sanda Island
ANDA Island, off the Mull of Kintyre, is a strange place, uninhabited save for a top-notch restaurant with extremely well appointed rooms.
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Shooting & Fishing
Shooting and fishing: The Scottish Government persists in supporting what it agrees is the unsupportable
If I were a member of a salmon river board I’d be checking up on any vacant netting rights in my area before the netsmen get their hands on them.
Shooting and fishing: They say the Government has made an absolute mess of managing the inshore fisheries
I WOULDN’T want to let the salmon farming industry off the hook, but could it be that unrestricted inshore trawling for prawns, scallops, cod and the like has had anything to do with the collapse of west coast sea trout fisheries?
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Roger Cox
Roger Cox: Plentiful snow is great, but if skiers can’t get to it they will slope off
Remember a few weeks ago, when I said the 2011/12 Scottish ski season had been a disaster? Well, I was wrong.
Roger Cox: Enjoying the great outdoors is an art not a science, but for Generation Xbox, the formula now exists
ONE of the most effective ways to suck the magic out of a much-loved activity is to explain it in simple, ‘how to’ terms.
Roger Cox: A race beneath the shadow of the Forth bridges, one of the “best 500 runs in the world,” is 25 this year Picture gallery
I’M a control freak”, says John McKay, “and I’m quite happy to be called that in print.” To organise something like the AGR Black Rock ‘5’ for the last 21 years, as McKay has done, you’d need to be.
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