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Our Shop, The Square Peg, is in Argyll - on the West Coast of Scotland. We talk about our wonderful location rather a lot in our blogs and in our social media – but we thought it might be useful for those who don’t know Argyll so well to hear a little bit more about where we are and why it’s such a great place to work and to live. So firstly, a little geography lesson – all credit goes...

Books give you somewhere to go when you must stay where you are - and you can be someone else when you get there. Last night was #WorldBookNight - my contribution being to finish Billy Connolly’s Made in Scotland.  I started reading this hugely funny book while on a weekend break to Rome in late February - just as Covid-19 was emerging in the north of the country. We got home and I forgot about the book…     Although...

Scotland is a country whose heritage, culture and landscape has been shaped by its relationship with the sea that surrounds it. Scotland is, by nature, a coastal country. For most Scots, the sea is only ever a few miles away. Wherever in the country you happen to be, the sea is never more than forty miles away. Their influence on Scottish landscape The Scottish landscape is among the most geologically varied in the world. It is home to a huge...