By Peter Finlay It’s not always you find the window in front of you as you have your breakfast so full of delight as happened quite a few times for me towards the end of May and in early June. Not the window itself of course but the sight there for me to see only …
By Peter Finlay. Featured image shows stag near High Corrie. All photo credits to the author. Video clips credit: Marjorie Finlay Let us focus on one small area of Arran. I shall say High Corrie, if for no better reason than that is where I have lived for many years. I’m sure everyone has their …
By Peter Finlay Philosophy is such a strange pursuit. There from the beginning of time surely, and certainly from the times of the ancient Greeks. It has always had a perennial fascination for us humans. Rather lovely that one lady who practised it had a home here in High Corrie. Eva Schaper, originally from Germany, …
Personal reflections from Peter Finlay The small group of white cottages that shine for you on the lower slopes of Goatfell as you cross the Firth on your way to Arran is well known in some ways but it also has its lesser known stories. The most forgotten people are those without whom there never …
Once upon a time there was a small ford which had served the few cottages above it in High Corrie well for as long as anyone could remember. Artist and leading Scottish colourist, John Maclauchlan Milne, had lived beside it and dramatist Robert McLellan lived a few yards up the track from it. Mr McGarrity’s …