Mary, Queen of Scots is back at Edinburgh Castle on every Thursday in the month of March to meet school pupils.

Our evacuee sessions return to the Museum of Rural Life for 2 days, 7 and 8 March. Discover what it’s like to be an evacuee with your class.

At the request of the simply marvellous Anne Dennistoun, I will reprise my pancake recipe for you all I preparation for Shrove Tuesday. These are actual pancakes, the other things you think are pancakes are crumpets. The Perfect Pancake 2 …

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Not At Home In case you have been looking for me either at my enviable house in Glasgow’s West End or indeed at the rural bolt hole in Dumfriesshire, where it is forever the 18th century, I am not at …

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