October 5, 2021October 6, 2021Events, Uncategorized

The Storylands Sessions

Setting up a new event is like taking a running jump off […]

June 29, 2020Cairngorms, Mountains, Uncategorized, Walking

A Sense of Place

What happens when we pay close attention to nature? A Sense of […]

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020Children's Writing, On Writing, Poetry, Uncategorized

Stay at Home!

On May 1st I got this email: “I am putting together a […]

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020Cairngorms, Mountains, Scotland, Uncategorized

The High Tongue

It’s the Cairngorms Nature at Home Big 10 Days! This WAS going […]

November 21, 2019Cairngorms, Language, Walking

Wonder of Wonders

Last week I described my first outing with the Health Walk Group […]

October 3, 2019October 3, 2019Cairngorms, Poetry, Walking

National Poetry Day in the Cairngorms

Hooray! It’s National Poetry Day today! For my five years at Kingussie […]

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019Cairngorms, Creative Writing Classes, Language, Poetry

Every Language Welcome

Namaste! Most of you probably recognise the word, some of you use […]

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019Cairngorms, Poetry, Wildlife

Poetry in Practice

One of my great hopes for this year as Writer in Residence […]

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019Cairngorms, On Writing

Cairngorms Staff Away Day

Staff away days can be notorious for press-ganging resistant folk through ‘team-building’ […]

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019Cairngorms, Creative Writing Classes, Poetry

The Nature Writer & The Big Surprise

When I arrive at Speyside High School the welcome from Lesley Williamson, […]