A-B-Tree begins a new phase

Added on 10 October 2018

I am really excited that the A-B-Tree project is beginning a new phase. Thanks to a Research Scholarship at the University of the Highlands and Islands I shall be exploring the use of my tidbits of knowledge about trees (here) as a tool for learning and creativity. A tree has been painted on the wal...

Clachtoll broch

Added on 22 July 2018

For the past few weeks I've been doing the dig diary for Historic Assynt, at the excavation of Clachtoll broch, the setting for my novel, The Walrus Mutterer. You can read more here. Between the fascinating finds and the various experimental archaeology events - pottery made and fired the Iron ...

Art and poetry hand in glove

Added on 12 July 2018

‘Collaboration’, says Michael Longley, the Irish poet, ‘is the opposite of loneliness.’ He sits with his back to the window, on the sill of which a metal trout, with pennies for scales, swims beneath a fragment of a poem stencilled on the glass: ‘I am the trout ...