Category: nature writing
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Meandering Sweet: Out now!
My first book, Meandering Sweet: Walking up the River Tay is out now – available online and at selected booksellers across Tayside. The book tells the story of my walk to the source of the River Tay back in 2020. It hopes to entertain and inform but also inspire: if one reader goes on their…
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Meandering Sweet: Walking up the River Tay
My new book, Meandering Sweet: Walking up the River Tay, will be out later this month. The book tells the story of my walk up the River Tay between lockdowns in 2020
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Chinese Whispers
When I leave the hotel early each morning, walking out into still air, there is the crack of a whip.
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A Winter River
The morning of the freeze there is beeverish activity on the river. What was yesterday a moving body of water is today as hard as stone. Groups of sweepers with brooms walk upon the ice, brushing away the snow which has come with the overnight freeze.
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On My Birthday
My birthday started as I wanted: up early with coffee, reading something new.
Bardo travel: Writings on experience and place 