May 11, 2022May 11, 2022Book Tour, Of Stone and Sky, Scotland

Chapel of the Swans

On a knoll at the northern end of Loch Insh in Badenoch […]

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022Cairngorms, Nature, Uncategorized

Naming The Equinox Moon

That Saturday was a night of strange conjuctions in the celestial realm. […]

February 21, 2022February 19, 2022Cairngorms, Hidden Fires, Uncategorized, Walking

Ice and Running Water

When the author Nan Shepherd was walking the Cairngorms in the 1940s, […]

January 24, 2022January 22, 2022Cairngorms, Uncategorized, Waterways, Wildlife

Winter Solstice Canoe

It was just before the winter solstice. The day had flung its […]

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021Cairngorms, Uncategorized

Following Nan Shepherd up Creag Dhubh

Creag Dhubh is the first hill Scottish writer Nan Shepherd climbed on […]

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021Plays, Radio

Immaculate – The Birthing of a Radio Play

When Lily, a young girl from a troubled background, becomes pregnant, she […]

October 5, 2021October 6, 2021Events, Uncategorized

The Storylands Sessions

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

September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Novels, Of Stone and Sky, Scotland

On the Trail of the Highland Shepherd

We found the abandoned lamb at the edge of a field, bleating […]

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021Cairngorms, Of Stone and Sky, Walking

Of Reindeer and Rams Horns

Setting off for an overnight climb and camp in the Cairngorms, our […]

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 […]