Be Kind To Yourself JanuaryBe Kind To Yourself January

There’s a lot of potential pressure this month to lose weight, get fit, give up meat, give up booze or a million other things. ‘New year, new you’, whatever that
There’s a lot of potential pressure this month to lose weight, get fit, give up meat, give up booze or a million other things. ‘New year, new you’, whatever that
I want to write something in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter campaign which created such turmoil earlier in the year. I wrote this back then and have posted it here for
I hadn’t come across Planet Earth Games until they popped up on my Instagram feed this August. ‘ Protecting people and planet through the power of sport and activity’ is what
Blàs of the Highlands is set on the stunning North Coast 500 in the Scottish Highlands. It follows Stroma and her friends throughout the year of the return of Auntie
Crowvus are a small indie publisher based in Wick, in the far north Scottish Highlands, who publish their own books, run writing competitions and offer support for other indie authors.
It has a mystique surrounding it. It has a reputation for being ‘hard’. Think T S Elliot, maybe, or whoever it was you ‘hated’ at school, where poetry was often
This is my last in my series of ‘buy nothing new’ blogs, although as you will discover, it’s not the end of my ‘buying nothing new’! 12 months ago I decided
I can’t remember a bad Christmas from when we were kids. My dad loves Christmas: an over-abundance of decorations food and gifts; games, TV and friends. He’s always been a
I am privileged to know a lot of creative people: writers, artists, musicians and makers of all sorts. My belief is that we are fundamentally creative beings, and predominantly
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a lively and eclectic mix of books and people. All sorts of people; all sorts of books. I was fortunate to be able to