Maritime

Added on 08 November 2016

For the past few weeks we have been on the boat most of the time, making the most of the back end of the sailing season. We grabbed the nice easterly wind and glorious autumn weather of October and sailed across the Minch, and based the boat on the pontoons in Stornoway Harbour. This wasn’t ju...

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...