Let nature take its course: Jim Crumley’s final Courier column
I have been fascinated by newspaper columns forever.
Jim Crumley
Jim Crumley: We need a second EU referendum and we need it now
If I promise that this will be my very last utterance on the subject of Brexit, will you please hang in there at least as far as the second paragraph?
Jim Crumley: Backward spring counts for many casualties in the wild
So, that has got rid of the backward spring then.
JIM CRUMLEY: The red fox has been subjected to obscene treatment across Scotland…Time to protect it
A whale washes up dead on an Angus beach and makes big headlines. A mass stranding of whales on an Australian beach makes national television bulletins over here, 10,000 miles away.
JIM CRUMLEY: Human attitudes to whales as part of our ‘entertainment’ needs to change
I had a very strange dream. I have lots of strange dreams, but most of them end up in the dream dustbin, where I think they are recycled into episodes of Celebrity Big Brother.
Big names line-up for Winter Words literary festival
A top line-up of authors, film-makers, adventurers and journalists has been unveiled for the 14th Winter Words literary festival, which opens next month in Pitlochry.
Jim Crumley: The golden eagle…the true monarch of the glen
I am a newcomer to the eagle glen. My 40 years acquaintance with the place is only a few more years than the lifespan of a single golden eagle, assuming it is given the opportunity to die quietly of old age.
Send in the clowns
Sometimes I think the only people who truly understand the human condition are the great songwriters.
Why the fall is a high point
Ah, September! The TV weather forecaster utters the magic words: “Tomorrow is the first day of meteorological autumn”, and I dance a jig.
Field sports vital to Scotland’s economy
Sir, - I read Jim Crumley’s column (August 15) with a mounting sense of incredulity.