January 24, 2022January 22, 2022Cairngorms, Uncategorized, Waterways, Wildlife Winter Solstice Canoe It was just before the winter solstice. The day had flung its arms wide for the short hours of light, throwing glitter […]
May 18, 2021May 18, 2021Cairngorms, Mountains, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Writer's Life Learning the Land How nature has colonised my notebooks as I’ve learnt more about the landscape and wildlife of the Cairngorms. A journey into observation.
January 11, 2021January 11, 2021Cairngorms, Uncategorized Winter Canoe It was one of those lost days between Christmas and New Year when we should have been travelling home from family in […]
September 28, 2020September 25, 2020Cairngorms, Wildlife Loch Insh Osprey The ospreys have gone. I went away for a week and when I got back, the strath had slipped into autumn and the eyrie above Loch Insh was empty.
March 21, 2020Mountains, Nepal Return to Fishtail Mountain My head is still in the Himalayas. Two weeks ago, I shared about my childhood in Ghachok, a village in the mountains […]
May 10, 2019May 10, 2019Cairngorms, Poetry, Wildlife Poetry in Practice One of my great hopes for this year as Writer in Residence at the Cairngorms National Park was to dedicate more time […]
April 26, 2019May 1, 2019Cairngorms, Wildlife The Long Flight Home Of all the bird books and field guides lying around my house, the one that is most precious is not an heirloom, […]