Author Catriona Thomson

To the Meadows, one of Edinburgh’s best loved green places with its wide open space, trees and spirals of paths. No matter what the weather is doing you are guaranteed to see folk enjoying the great...

Perhaps like me, you will remember 1982, a year which saw unemployment figures breach the three million mark, and the Falklands War begin. It also saw ditties such as Don’t You Want Me by The Human League...

You can’t beat a Scottish picnic during the Easter holidays. I let my mind rewind to recall a childhood scene decorating eggs in anticipation of hurling them down some hill or other. With our lovingly...

When you hit your mid-forties, it's not uncommon for your once keen vision to take a tumble over the cliff of age-related farsightedness. Thomas J Walls, Forrest Street, Edinburgh. Picture: Lisa...

In the early 1990s, one band exploded on to the music scene with their raging guitars, angst and attitude. Seattle grunge was suddenly cool, due mainly to Nirvana. Lead singer Kurt Cobain was at the...

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics Treasure Island and The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, has been on my mind, as he was born 167 years ago tomorrow on 13 November, 1850. ‘The elder wean...

‘Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher” – even today it’s still a catchy chant. The Iron Lady has passed on, but in 1971, as Edward Heath’s education secretary, she was responsible for ending free...

Musical talent was the reason my daughter, Eve and I headed to Glasgow. A classical guitar summer school at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for her meant a week of mother/daughter bonding in student...

Visiting the north-east corner of Scotland, with its endless rolling hillsides leaves you in no doubt you are in the farming heartland of Scotland. Synonymous with the region is Aberdeen Angus beef, and the...