Category: nature writing
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On My Birthday
My birthday started as I wanted: up early with coffee, reading something new.

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…

When I leave the hotel early each morning, walking out into still air, there is the crack of a whip.

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.

My birthday started as I wanted: up early with coffee, reading something new.