Hebrides

How not to get away from it all in the Hebrides

2 May 2020 9:00 am

Some accounts of moving to the countryside are aspirational and inspiring, but this book is more of a ‘how not…

Herring girls had to wash their hair six times on a Saturday night to rinse out the smell

The current scarcity of herring may itself be a red herring

19 September 2015 8:00 am

Fish stories come in two varieties: the micro-version of a hundred riverside bars, blokeish boastings of rod-and-line tussles with individual…