youtu.be/7UBvm_SWjEQ?... It is not quite time to break out the mulled ale but certainly chilly enough to give Themba Mvula’s interpretation of my electro-horn take on Purcell’s “Song of the Cold Genius” an airing.

I visited Glen Affric recently for the first time. It was the first time that I saw the Scottish Highlands as they truly should be - not a barren wilderness with the odd tree clinging on for dear life but a richly forested landscape, teeming with life.