An Aberdonian take on Scandi design
This Aberdeenshire stone-built Heath Cottage has a beautiful Scandinavian-inspired interior thanks to its owners, Brown and Brown Architects. Equally appealing is their client’s refurbished cottage in South Crown Street, Ferryhill (pictured at end). The practice undertakes commissions throughout north east Scotland stretching to the Western Isles and future projects include the old Portsoy Boat House. Check out the ‘before’ pictures to get a sense of the transformation. All photography by
Love these century old pictures of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Might be the ‘boulevards’ or the gardens but both cities look a bit like Paris. There’s also pictures of Perth, Portobello, Largs, Rothesay. Thanks to one of our featured Fife Creatives, Clive Ramage for sharing the pictures. Above, Edinburgh and below, Glasgow Below, Portobello Below, Perth, Rothesay and Largs
by Paul Rudge, Reubens Wine Store Overshadowed by its bigger South American neighbours for years, Uruguay has in the past few decades emerged steadily and quietly on to the world wine market. You cannot talk about Uruguayan wine without mentioning the iconic grape variety, Tannat which has played a pivotal role in the country`s rising wine status. The first Tannat vines to arrive in Uruguay were brought across the Atlantic
Great new band from Dunfermline – catch Moonlight Zoo live at the Green Room in Perth on 13 February, hear them on soundcloud and get in touch at moonlightzoomusic@gmail.com.
In the modest seaside town of Burntisland in Fife in the early 1780s lived a girl who would become the pre-eminent thinker in science and mathematics of her day, known and feted throughout Europe. Eventually a school, an Oxford College, an island, even a crater on the moon would all be named for her. But first Mary Somerville had to negotiate her way through a society that did not expect
Paul from Reuben’s Wine Store gives us the low down on gin. The store will be hosting a gin tasting at The Bruery, Dunfermline this Thursday, 22 January. Shaken, not stirred! ……. …. There’s something very British about Gin, not just because of London Dry or the links with Imperial rule in the far-east but the way it’s been ever present in our society for so long and across so
The family run Unicorn Inn, Kincardine has won a Taste Our Best award. The brasserie received the award on 15 January for their commitment to including and promoting Scottish food and drink on their menu. Brian Jones and his wife Michelle include dishes such as a haggis and tattie scone tower, Scottish smoked salmon with pickled beetroot and Scottish strawberry pavlova with fruit coulis on their menu. Michelle and Brian
Instead of leaving paintbrushes sitting in jars of white spirit for weeks only to end up chucking them in the bin, San Francisco-based artist, Rebecca Szeto has transformed paintbrushes into beautiful renaissance ladies. Dried up paint brushes never looked so good.
Fancy a couple of cheery new tunes for your Monday morning? Here is The Party Line from Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, the 9th studio album by Belle and Sebastian. The band are touring in May and play Newcastle City Hall on the 16th and The Hydro in Glasgow on the 22nd. The Waterboys too are back in action. Listen below to November Tale from Modern Blues which is out next week.
Fantastic to see the great Joan Didion, at 80, appearing as the face of Celine. She has however modelled before. Back in 1989 she was pictured with her now sadly deceased daughter Quintana for Gap. Didion’s memoir about the loss of Quintana – Blue Nights – was published in 2011. Just a couple of years earlier Didion had published the incredible Year of Magical Thinking about the death of her
