December 6, 2021December 6, 2021Cairngorms, Uncategorized Following Nan Shepherd up Creag Dhubh Creag Dhubh is the first hill Scottish writer Nan Shepherd climbed on her journey into the Cairngorms, described in her book The […]
June 21, 2021July 7, 2021Books, Cairngorms, Mountains, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized, Walking Stone and Sky on Angel’s Peak On this night, eight years ago, I started writing my novel, Of Stone and Sky. It was the summer solstice here in […]
August 24, 2020August 22, 2020Cairngorms, Uncategorized, Walking Loch Etchachan & Ben MacDui: A Cairngorms Photo Story Living by the Spey, most of my walks into the Cairngorms are from the north-western side, such as the one to Angel’s […]
April 28, 2020April 27, 2020Cairngorms, Walking Map Gazing Do you love maps? I find them fascinating, so when I was invited by Walk Highlands to write an article about what […]
January 17, 2020Cairngorms, Mountains, Scotland, Walking Winter Worryland From the comfort of my sofa in a warm living room, I have just booked myself onto my first ever mountain winter […]
November 14, 2019November 15, 2019Cairngorms, Uncategorized, Walking, Writer's Life Having Words with the Non-Writers Though the Glen Tanar Health Walk group love where they walk and were very happy to have me join them, it was […]
September 9, 2019September 9, 2019Cairngorms, Walking Walking Together for Health It was quiet when I arrived at the edge of Anagach woods, sunlight filtering down through giant trees, a soft breeze shifting […]
July 28, 2019July 28, 2019Cairngorms, Novels, Of Stone and Sky, Pilgrimage, Uncategorized, Writer's Life Angel’s Peak At the start of this year, I decided to embrace my term as Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park as […]