HELLO and WELCOME to my blog!

I’m Ailsa MacPherson, London raised (Twickenham and thereabouts); I have always been proud of my Scottish heritage. From annual family pilgrimages, which took many hours, sometimes days, up to Newtonmore, in the Highlands to the Clan Macpherson seat.  To an early ‘romantic’ foray at Scottish rural living in Perthshire.   Where agriculture was the main way to earn a crust; as I wasn’t a tractor driver, apart from a turn on the wheel of a combine harvester aged 7, I couldn’t even drive – life was very different.   With two off-road skids in white-outs and an aqua slide into a telephone pole, now known as Ailsa’s pole, outside the DISTILLERY where I worked.   (My reputation has, at times, risen and fallen, risen repeat like the beating heart of Scottish village life.)  Finding work that rather suited.  Talking NOT drinking whisky.  However, I had a yen for MORE…..or so I thought.   Lovingly sent off with my new husband with a wee article from another beating pulse of the community.   The local press, ‘Off to the Big Smoke,’ to seek our fortune, get it out of our systems.  

However, Scotland always seemed to play a role.  Whether in promoting whisky and Scottish hospitality at the distillery’s HO in London, in the many Scottish holidays and family visits up north or annual clan dances with tartan sashes. I returned in 2010, finally and completely relocating back up with said husband to establish a new architectural partnership back where it all began.  Back in Perthshire to create new stories.  My TartanTatters.com Some UNEXPECTED, some JOYFUL, some NOT SO.

Join the journey. The importance of place.  What is home?  Putting down your roots and growing them. The dream-life style you want and what you get and how that could be even better, YES. Setting-up a new biz, finding that job.  Schooling: what’s right for you and your child.  Relationships and support systems!!  I’ll go deep and bring you the nuggets in bite-sized chunks!

I hope you find the Tatts helpful.  Please feel free to comment at the end of a post.  I would LOVE to have your feedback!  I would benefit from it, helpful ones, yeah, and YOUR stories, too. Create a new support system.

 Learn from my mistakes (it’s true, those are the ones that become strangely our successes). 

 BOY is life different now, guys!

Lots of love

Ailsa x