Birds

Added on 28 October 2016

The fieldfares have blown in at last! Flurries of leaves are being scattered from the birches and aspens and the loose, lively flocking of the fieldfares is similar in form, fluttering above the woods in gusts and bursts. I’ve been longing for them for weeks, watching the rowan berries startin...

A-B-Tree was launched into the world from Culag woods

Added on 06 October 2016

The day before National Poetry Day, Wednesday 5 October, saw a small group of people disappearing off into Culag Woods from Lochinver harbour, to scatter poems like leaves among the trees. We brewed up kelly kettles for tea, cooked marshmallows and read poems in the dappled, smoky sunlight. Trees wh...

No Throwaway Cups

Added on 29 September 2016

In my ‘day job’ I work for the Environmental Paper Network (EPN), a coalition of more than 140 civil society organisations that share a vision for a future where all paper is produced, used and disposed of ethically and sustainably. Given that paper accounts for more than 40% of world in...