Acting locally

Added on 17 June 2016

For ages, I have been promising various people locally that 'when the novel's finished' I'd get involved in one of the many community organisations in Assynt. And that moment has come. I have been co-opted as a director on the board of Assynt Foundation, which owns 44,000 acres of wh...

The Stone Stories has gone to Saraband

Added on 07 May 2016

It is done. The novel, all three volumes of it, has been sent to my publisher, Saraband, who has first refusal on publishing it. It is an odd anti-climax to stop editing and declare it as complete as I can make it. No doubt if Saraband wants to publish it then there will be editorial changes to make...

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...