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Prudence to print pounds
If it wasn’t so terrifyingly serious it would be almost endearing – like the sort of solution to insolvency that any inventive small schoolboy like William the Bad would have taken, courtesy of his...
View ArticleUK Government may start printing money today
They call it quantitative easing and they say they won’t actually be running the prsses at De La Rue where the notes are printed, but this is effectively what is about to be done.The Bank of England is...
View ArticleMather delighted at Cowalfest’s Alexander Reid Exhibition
Cowalfest has had an enthusiastic response from Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP and Tourism Minister, to the announcement of the exhibition, Alexander Reid and the Japanese Influence –Arts, Ships and Plants,...
View ArticleInnovation-rich Cowalfest gets going: Friday 9th October
Argyll’s Cowalfest – an innovative event from the outset in its marriage of walking and the arts, is always one to serve up surprises. The 2009 event is no exception.Topping a programme of walks,...
View ArticleGlasgow Craft Mafia hit Strathlachan
Inver Cottage – renowned for good food – is living dangerously. It’s importing 12 Capi di Capo from the Glasgow Craft Mafia to bring a splash of urban culture to secret Strathlachlan on Saturday 17th...
View ArticleJapanese dignitaries to visit Helensburgh’s Hill House
Japan’s Consul General, Mr Masataka Tarahara, with the Consul for Political and Economic Affairs, Mr Atsushi Inoue, are to visit Helensburgh’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House on 20th...
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The Cowalfest conundrum
The Black Prince, a curvy yellow vase, walking, an Argyll car, the founder of the science of ballistics, Japan and Dunoon.Believe it or not, there is a link that binds these together.One part of the...
View ArticleWake-up call for the Scotch Whisky industry?
The 2010 Whisky Bible has named Kentucky’s Sazerac Rye whisky as the best in the world, bumping Argyll’s Ardbeg Islay malt – last year’s winner, into 2nd place and closely shadowed by 3rd placed Amrut...
View ArticleMail on Sunday reveals Hutton ordered David Kelly’s medical records closed...
Today’s Mail on Sunday carries one of the most staggering and inexplicable revelations around what is already the strange death of Dr David Kelly, the United Nations Weapons Inspector, in July 2003.It...
View ArticleArgyll and Cowal lose the Bruces
Two key assets in Argyll’s and Cowal’s cultural tourism industry have quietly slid away south, back to the Scottish Borders.Russell and Dorothy Bruce, founders and annual engines for seven years of...
View ArticleThe aircraft carriers: flog one, share one?
The Strategic Defence Review is offering us a positively gladiatorial sport – watching the MoD as shape-changer, desperately trying to square the circle in its attempts to get whatever it is that it...
View ArticleJapan
This has come in from one of our readers,We’d been wondering how to say something about Japan and so numbed by the scale of it we could find no word to start.We have also been silenced by the thought –...
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Spirit of Unity: unique malt whisy from Scottish – and Argyll – craft...
(But you can only get it in two places – click ‘More’ below to find out where.)In one of the most imaginative and uplifting initiatives – one could almost say ‘spiritual’ – that could hardly be more...
View ArticleJapan displaces Scotland as Whisky Bible 2015′s World Whisky of the Year
The whisky world and all who down drams in her, was recently ignited with news that whisky guru, Jim Murray, in his celebrated Whisky Bible 2015 has nominated as World Whisky of the Year a Japanese...
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Christmas 2014 – to Argyll
Dugald Barr has already come clean that his photo taken on Christmas Day at a marina was not in Argyll but on the fringes of Tokyo.Then he wondered whether some shots he had taken of an iconic ‘pap’ in...
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