Scotland – KDD & Co

Sock of the week no.9

By: KDD July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

creativity, Scotland, Scottish textiles, socksBaird undersock, invention, inventor, John Logie Baird, Scotland, sock, socks, undersock8 Comments

The Baird Undersock

sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters

Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.

sock of the week no.4

Gairloch stockings: A Highland design success story

Castle Tioram walk

By: KDD June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

architecture, History, landscape, Scotland, walking, West Highlandsardnamurchan, Castle Tioram, Highlands, Moidart, Scotland, Silver Walk, walk, walking10 Comments

exploring a spectacular landscape and its turbulent history

a walking week

By: KDD May 13, 2021May 13, 2021

History, landscape, photography, Scotland, walkingardnamurchan, History, landscape, Lochaber, Moidart, photography, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish history, walking17 Comments

exploring a stunning part of Scotland

on not being sure

A squeaky toy? A rusty gate? How do we begin to learn about birdsong?

Oa my!

Kate’s favourite outdoor pullover gets an Oa-verhaul

back up conic hill

By: KDD February 21, 2021March 21, 2021

landscape, Scotland, walking, West Highland Way, West Highlandscoinneach, Conic Hill, landscape, walking, West Highland Way20 Comments

In which we are happy to get out and about in the hills again

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

out cold

By: KDD January 9, 2021January 9, 2021

landscape, photography, Scotlandcarbeth, chill, cold, fog, ice, landscape, photography, Scotland, walking, weather, winter, winter walking27 Comments

We seem to be in the middle of a fairly sustained cold snap in our part of Scotland. Icy days have been followed by snowy ones, with bitter temperatures and freezing fog. I personally like quite chilly weather, and particularly enjoy its transformative effect on my surrounding landscape. During a cold spell, everything starts to…

moon walk

By: KDD December 30, 2020

landscape, photography, Scotland, seasonal, walkingblue hour, landscape, moon, photography, Scotland, seasons, walk, walking, winter36 Comments

Hello! We are currently enjoying a very quiet and relaxing winter break. In the absence of any socialising, this has largely involved good food, lots of films and books, knitting (me), creating digital soundscapes from ordinary household objects (Tom) and crisp long walks (both of us, plus dogs). After an extended period of hard work,…

a chat with Misa Hay

There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…

congratulations, Megan and Nathan!

By: KDD September 27, 2020September 27, 2020

landscape, photography, Scotlandcarbeth, Carbeth loch, congratulations, photography18 Comments

We’ve had some beautiful, golden September weather here recently, and have been making the most of it for our 10 Years in the Making photoshoots. Due to local Covid restrictions, these shoots involve just Tom and myself, but this also means we can get up and start taking photos at first light, when there’s often…

Lunardi in Campsie

The revival of my eighteenth-century balloon-o-mania was inspired after some recent walks around Clachan of Camspie and Milton of Campsie (just north and east of where we live) during which I discovered that that balloonist, Vincent Lunardi, landed in Campsie Glen at the conclusion of his second flight from Glasgow in November 1785. After wowing…