A second helping of Ptarmigan pie

Back in May 2011, I featured an article entitled Searching for Ptarmigan Pie by Alastair Glegg. A very good copy of Ptarmigan pie just came into stock so it feels like an opportune moment to re-introduce Alastair’s article.

In the spring of 1939, as the storm clouds of war were gathering over Europe, a young couple celebrated their engagement by taking a climbing holiday on the Isle of Skye. Donal Lindsay Glegg was 28, and just beginning to make a name for himself as a landscape painter and illustrator. Mabel Glenny, a year older, was a medical doctor working at the Bristol Infirmary. Both were experienced mountaineers and loved the challenges set by the dark jagged peaks of the Cuillins, but in those days finding accommodation could be a problem. They had spent previous Highland holidays in tents and caravans, and there were always places which provided board and lodging for climbers, but they had a dream of finding a little place of their own to use as a base for what they hoped would be many years of visits to Scotland Read more

© Alastair Glegg. Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without the author's permission.

Ptarmigan pie is now sold, thank you for your interest.
Barbara