I went out for a walk today while the wild winds were blowing because I wanted to see some trees and the nearest ones to me were down at Leith […]
Category: Blog
I’m really enjoying watching Nochd just now as it has some great interviews with people involved with Celtic Connections and great music too. Check it out if you want! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dtzc/nochd-series-4-episode-4 […]
Scottish Gaelic Duolingo
Like many other people I signed up for the Scottish Gaelic course on Duolingo when it was released. I’ve found it quite useful as a learner as it contains quite […]
Movies and Christian Bale
Last night I went to check out the new movie with Christian Bale called “Le Mans ’66”. I’m not a big fan of car racing nor of Matt Damon I […]
Social Media
I went to a talk the other day on social media and the guy giving the talk, who was promoting his book, made quite a few negative comments about it, […]
Bio-rights
I was really interested to read this article by Robert Macfarlane in the Guardian (a link to it is below). I have thought about this concept before and I’m all […]
Book Signing
Just felt like saying I had a funny day today. I’m visiting Oxford just now and went to Blackwells which is one of my favourite bookshops. I went down into […]
Shocks to the System
Poetry is beautiful and I couldn’t live without it. Sometimes though it feels like an isolating pursuit because generally I tend to read and meditate on poetry in solitude, particularly […]
World Mental Health Day
As it is World Mental Health Day I just thought I’d share a bit on my blog. I have had personal experience of this and it is something which I […]
I have just been watching the court case in the Supreme Court which is currently ongoing about the decision of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to prorogue parliament. If this […]
Disappointment and Hope
Today I got an email telling me that I had not had some of my work accepted for publication, this was after also hearing nothing back from a poetry competition […]
In the time since my last (first) post I’ve been busy working away on this website, making some adjustments to the look of it. I’ve been experimenting with bits of […]
I’ve just decided to start up a site with my musings, partly because I got round to successfully getting the Seachdain na Gàidhlig website pretty much up and running and […]