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Mother’s Day is Sunday 22nd March, a day for celebrating all the marvellous mums in our lives and showing them how much they are loved appreciated. As usual we can’t wait to share with you our favourite present recommendations and seriously hope that we’re able to provide you with some suggestions that you wouldn’t otherwise have thought of and help you find a gift as unique as she is! It doesn’t get much more unique then something that’s hand crafted....

John Lowrie Morrison OBE was born in 1948 in Maryhill, Glasgow, but now lives here in Argyll, local to The Square Peg. Known as Jolomo, he is one of Scotland’s best loved contemporary artists and has been painting Argyll and the Hebrides for over 50 years. His work is mainly expressionist oil paintings of our wonderful Scottish landscapes, featuring the lighthouses, crofts, coastlines and boats of the Scottish west coast, often also capturing the people and the light. Interested in...

Christmas has been with us for over two centuries, in one form or another. It may be tempting then, for some of us to imagine that we are as familiar with the occasion as we possibly can be. But Christmas is changing and nowhere is this change more evident than in the world of shopping. The ways we get our Christmas presents from the manufacturer to the foot of our Christmas Trees is being utterly transformed. Some of these changes...