Nicki MacRae Studio Easel

Studio Revamp

Last weekend I decided to revamp the studio. Even my husband had been saying it wasn’t the nicest space to be in – and he’s not usually that perceptive about these things! It was too dark, and whilst there was a space for most things, open shelving meant no amount of tidying ever seemed to …

Showing the narrow straight entrance into the broch, with tall door uprights, seen from the vantage point of a dusty wheelbarrow.

Rock n Roll! Building a Broch…

Last Thursday I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip an hour and a half up the road to Caithness to drop in on an exciting experimental archaeology project. Members of the Caithness Archaeological Trust (CAT), experts from AOC Archaeology, the Archie Sinclair Fossil Centre, and volunteers from the community and further afield are working …