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Ken Dodd, Climate Change, Motherland and a Launch Date for New Book: Read all about it Here:-
As I write this I have my daughter’s ten week old puppy balanced on my lap, her ears twitching every time I hit the return button which is perilously close to her nose. The sky is dirty with rain-clouds, and thundery downpours drum intermittently on the roof of the summer house. It has to be…
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Sink or swim
I’m sitting in my summer house writing this, listening to the rain pattering on the roof. It’s been a week of scorching afternoons, rare for Scotland, where I’ve quickly got used to flip-flopping about in shorts, pretending I’m used to weather more common to California. It was so hot I swam in the river with…
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Even The Birds Grow Silent
I was shocked to realise how long it is since I wrote anything in my shiny new blog – November 2020 (& we all know why that is) – so I’ve resolved to write here almost every day, for my own benefit. Nice to keep a record of just how many granny square blankets I…
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Smoo Cave Legends
Smoo Cave, near Durness on the north coast of Scotland, is renowned for its interesting legends and mystical atmosphere. After visiting the cave and nearby Balnakeil Bay, I knew it would make a brilliant dramatic backdrop for any novel. However, it took me another five years before I could find a place for it in…