Happy Endings

Added by Mandy Haggith at 17:50 on 13 September 2024

Tired of the doom and gloom about climate change and apocalyptic thinking about environmental disasters? Me too. So I will be leading a workshop at Velocity Cafe in Inverness on Monday 16 September, 6.30-8pm, about writing happy endings into our stories. Because we all need some lightness... More de...

Assynt Elm Project

Added by Mandy Haggith at 17:50 on 02 February 2024

The best thing about this winter is the Assynt Elm Project. I couldn't write a book about elms and stand by doing nothing while Dutch elm disease arrives here, as it almost certainly has, and if not, certainly soon will. So I decided to do a pilgrimage around Assynt's magnificent elms and talk to ev...

A new book about elms underway

Added by Mandy Haggith at 17:40 on 08 August 2023

I guess you can take the woman out of forest campaigning but you can't take the forest campaigner out of the woman, so perhaps it is no surprise that I have a new tree-related project. Last year I was commissioned to write about the oldest elm tree in Europe, known as the Guardian of the Gateway, wh...