In this week's episode we visit an 'Earthquake House', find out about Romans and Picts battling in Dunning, and learn about the mysterious, three-thousand-year-old Crieff Cursus.

Every episode now comes with extensive show notes. There you'll find more details and relevant links, as well as contact details to enquire about being on a future episode of the podcast (or to enquire about joining the PerthshireHour WhatsApp group).

Simply click here to visit this week's show notes.

This episode will feature some of the best local food producers, restaurants, cafes, and bars, with a discussion on local produce, menus, atmospheres, and unique features that make each foodie destination stand out.

Featured in this week's episode are The Pickled Peacock, 'The Tea Garden' at Comrie Croft, Allan's Chilli Products, Cafe Kisa, Strathearn Cheese, and Wild Hearth Bakery. Also included are brief mentions for Cairn O'Mohr Winery, Delivino’s Wild Kitchen, Well-Fired Pizza, Rolling Stove, and Bonnie Mountain Coffee.

As always thanks for listening and don't forget to follow/subscribe to the podcast to avoid missing an episode (don't worry, it's free).

You'll find links to all businesses mentioned in this week's episode over in the show notes by clicking this link.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of the PerthshireHour Podcast. This episode features a discussion of Perthshire’s history, highlighting significant events, people, and places that have contributed to the region's unique character and charm.

A special thank you to Irene at the Museum of Abernethy and Lara Haggerty at Innerpeffray Library near Crieff for taking the time to share their expert ideas about Perthshire's history. (I also want to add a quick apology to the guys at History and Horror Tours for the miscommunication. I hope we get a chance to hear from you on a future history episode)

As a lucky coincidence, this is also local history month. With this in mind, you'll also find details on a few local history month events at the end of this episode.

Show notes available by following this link.

Hello and welcome to the PerthshireHour Podcast. Each Wednesday we’ll bring a new episode featuring stories and news about the Perthshire area.

In this week’s episode, we’ll discuss the natural wonders of Perthshire with contributions from Laura at Bushcraft Bairns and Daniele from Perthshire Wildlife.

Find out more in the show notes here

You can visit Bushcraft Bairns here

And visit Perthshire Wildlife here

In this 'extra' episode, we look ahead to the forthcoming ten weeks of podcast episodes and put out a call to local businesses, organisations, charities, and creatives that might like to be involved. There's a huge variety of themes and topics ahead of us so have a listen and think about whether there's one or more episodes that you'd like to be a part of. (Please note that both audio and text contributions are equally welcome. You won't have to record yourself if you don't want to.)

A full run-through of the proposed podcast timetable can also be found by clicking this link.

This week's PerthshireHour podcast focuses on the Soutar Festival of Words 2023 in Perth from Friday 28th April till Sunday 30th April. Included are summaries of the following events: 'Plaid Song ‘Poems Intae Sangs’', 'Poetry Slam Competition + Performance by Kevin P Gilday', 'Graeme Macrae Burnet: Case Study', 'Emma Grae: The Tongue She Speaks', 'Kirsty Logan: Now She Is Witch', 'Sara Sheridan and Kirsten MacQuarrie: Women’s Voices', 'Fit’s Doric aa aboot?', 'Sally Magnusson: Music In The Dark', and 'Alan Warner: Nothing Left To Fear From Hell'.

Information for this episode was taken directly from the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall website (where you can also book your tickets).

This week we look at what's on in Perthshire this coming Easter Weekend. With Egg hunts, Easter menus, a shoe promotion (or two), and... scones?

Also includes a brief mention of the possibility of a 'social media tips' focus on using Meta for businesses/organisations (this covers Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. If you'd be interested in a more in-depth section on this in a future episode please let me know.

We're offering something a little different in this week's (very) delayed episode of the PerthshireHour podcast as we point the spotlight at the wealth of poets working in and around the Perthshire area.

We have a huge collection of poems, read by their creators. Each poem has a special link to the Perthshire area, depicting favourite places, stories, and more.

In this episode, you'll hear the work of Jim Mackintosh, Jennie Turnbull, Andy Jackson, Alice Walsh, Lydia Robb, Patricia Ace, Beth McDonough, Dawn Wood, George T Watt, Hazel B Cameron, Jane Picton-Smith, Karen Macfarlane, and Morag Anderson.

Thanks go out to all of these poets for taking the time to record and submit their reading, it's greatly appreciated.

Apologies to regular listeners for the delay on getting this episode out into the world. A collection of technical and other difficulties caused a couple of unavoidable delays. We should be back to our regular program next Wednesday (5th April).

Hope you enjoy the episode, and as always, thanks for listening

With Mothers' day coming up this Sunday, I thought it might be good to feature a few Perthshire businesses run by mums. I contacted a few local business owners over the past week and they were good enough to tell me a little about the skills that motherhood helped them bring to your business, as well as some of the challenges too, not to mention the changes in direction that being a parent had on their business.

Featured this week were Karen (from Fun Junction Crief and Perth), Dawn (from Precious Sparkle), Victoria (from Litttle Scalliwags), and June McEwan (The Works/ Willow Works).

For this week's 'Perthshire Writer Focus' I added a little more about Fiona Lowry (Author of ‘Franco and The Green Light Fairy’ and ‘Felix's Favourite Day’), and the important role that the power of positive thinking has in the themes of her books.

Finally, in our 'Social Media Tips and Tricks' section, I highlighted the importance of taking ownership of your content by creating a simple (and free) website or blog with WordPress.com. (Please note: I'm not affiliated with WordPress, nor do I receive any form of compensation for recommending them. I've been making websites with WordPress for over a decade and I think they're the simplest (free) way for a small business to gain a professional presence outside social media and retain control over their own content).

Thanks as always for listening, and Happy Mothers' Day to all the mums who are listening to this week's episode.