Ghillie Dhu the Ghillie Dhu was a gentle and kind-hearted mountain spirit, or a "rather unusual nature fairy." The Ghillie Dhu was an individual male modern day fairy described by Osgood Mackenzie, a Scottish landowner and horticulturist, in his memoirs that were published in 1921. The fairy was generally timid, yet he could also be "wild". Residing in the birch woods near Loch a Druing, in the north-west Highland area of Gairloch, he was mainly seen in the latter part of the 18th century. The woods are in a dip alongside a hilly area around from where Rua Reidh Lighthouse was later
Ghillie Basan Scotland. Their first book, "Classic Turkish Cookery", was nominated for two awards and gained them a weekly slot on the Sunday Herald and a contract for their second book, "The Middle Eastern Kitchen." The couple are no longer together, and she is raising her two children, Yazzie and Zeki alone. Basan has now written over 40 books and her articles have appeared in the Sunday Herald, Scotland on Sunday, BBC Good Food Magazine, TasteTurkey, and Today’s Diet and Nutrition. From her home, she runs cookery workshops and travels widely to research and write her books. Ghillie Basan Ghillie Başan (born