Each Mara is launched

Added on 23 April 2016

Our sailing boat, Each Mara, is afloat, after a winter on the hard standing at Lochinver harbour. It's an exciting moment, when she hits the water and we hope that all the sea-cocks are closed and the engine goes. All went well, and when the wind dropped away we got the sails on, then took her o...

Retreat cancelled

Added on 29 March 2016

Unfortunately the writing retreat week on Tanera Mor in the Summer Isles in early May has had to be cancelled. Hopefully we'll get another chance next year.

The Stone Stories

Added on 27 March 2016

For the past four years I've been writing a historical novel set in the Iron Age. It is inspired by the amazing journey of Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek who was the first Mediterranean (as far as we know) to circumnavigate Britain. He wrote a book called On the Ocean, which is lost, but...