spiritual exercise or stark superstition?

Yesterday’s paper had an article on left-handedness.  It seems that left-handed people are on the increase, up from 3 to 11 percent over the last 100 years!   I think most of us know about the dogging that left-handers used to get, especially at school. That has now largely changed and people are being accepted for [...]

Footprints in the mud

I have, somewhere, a book of walks in Easter Ross.  Many years ago some of us tried out the one that leads from the roadside of the B9176 near the viewpoint, up Struie and along to Struie Hill where the telephone mast stands. The walk was a disaster, because of a time-dishonoured practice:  ignoring the [...]