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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Map Gazing
Do you love maps? I find them fascinating, so when I was invited by Walk Highlands to write an article about what […]
Winter Worryland
From the comfort of my sofa in a warm living room, I have just booked myself onto my first ever mountain winter […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]