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It’s that time of year when the subject of New Year’s resolutions raises its ugly head. We all make them and, according to The Hero Movement (I promise this is a thing, look it up), we all break them, with 92% of last year’s resolutions being discarded...

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Ireally enjoy working on this Festive Issue for a whole raft of reasons, but chief among them is our annual feature on the best books of the past year. Since we started it four years ago, this Book Club feature has garnered more letters and anecdotal...

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WIN! WHISKY, LUXURY HOTEL BREAK, BOTHY EXPERIENCE

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It’s that time of year when we once again get to unashamedly wallow in luxury. When we first published the Luxury Issue in 2017, some readers felt that we should not be lauding excess, but when we consulted more widely, our community felt that in...

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It has been twelve years since we produced our first Power 100, which profiled a hundred of the most influential and consequential people in the Scottish countryside. It was insanely popular, and despite stressing that inclusion was not in any order...

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Having lived in Ayrshire for many years and holidayed there for decades, it was nice to revisit some old haunts for this month’s focus on the county that the locals laughingly refer to as ‘million-Ayrshire’. I found our cover photo particularly...

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It is that most wonderful time of year again. No, not when we all go on holiday (although I certainly hope there is a bit of that in my immediate future), but when the Scottish Field team undertakes our annual road trips to some of the many shows that...

A LOVE OF THE BORDERS

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In case it passed you by, it has just been Women’s History Month, a fact which inevitably sparked a lively debate in the editorial offices of Scottish Field. Who, we asked each other, are the real heroines of Scottish history – the pioneers, the woman...

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Spring is finally here. To me, this means long dog walks into the hills and through woods strewn with snowdrops. The increasingly light evenings mean games of golf and tennis where you don’t need to wear half of your wardrobe to keep warm. Spring is a...

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Iwrite this in the immediate aftermath of Storm Éowyn, which the good folk at the Met Office keep telling us is the worst storm to hit Scotland for at least ten years. It certainly felt apocalyptic as we hunkered down while our but and ben was...

20 PAGES OF HOMES & GARDENS

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This is one of my favourite issues of the year. Not only do we get a chance to take a step back and look at the year that has just passed – and in the process come up with our quiz and crossword of the year – but we get to ask some of the country’s...

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It barely seems like any time since we were ‘enjoying’ what we laughingly called our summer. So to already be thinking about Christmas has come as quite a gear change. But as our focus switches to planning for the season of goodwill, we’re pleased to...

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Forget the planet for a moment, let’s instead Save Our Sporrans. The original man bag is apparently coming under pressure as never before, and needs a helping hand. The first blow to the iconic piece of traditional wear came at the Emmys in New York,...

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At well over 350 pages, this is definitely one of the biggest luxury issues we’ve ever produced. Whether it is one of the best will be for you, the readers, to decide, although experience makes me sure you’ll communicate your verdict soon enough. We...

22 PAGES OF HOMES & GARDENS

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Igot married in Ayrshire, lived in the county for over a decade, saw my youngest son enter the world there, and have spent more summers and Hogmanays on what my in-laws from the Isle of Cumbrae laughingly call ‘the Scottish riviera’ than I care to...