Croft Gardener
Nine men went to mow, went to mow a meadow
or in my case 9 cows and their calves…..The Ladies are back! These are my contract mowers who arrive every year for 4-6 weeks in October to graze the grass on our headland. The grassland on our croft is managed to produce suitable breeding habitat for corncrakes, breeding waders such as lapwings, oystercatchers, redshank and […]
National Poetry Day, Outer Hebrides
Waiting for the Tide of Inspiration syllables dancing in the spray,words rolling in grains of sand,antonyms hiding in fronds of kelp,synonyms twisted in shining alginates,will the wind release the rhymes,sonnets to soar above the waves,or leave them tangled in flotsampoetic debris, drowned doggerel?
Wordless Wednesday- A Shaving Brush?
Michaelmas Fruits
Pinkgills, Earthtongues, Fairy-clubs and Parrots In these islands there are no hedgerows adorned with hips and haws, orchards laded with apples or woodland walks full of glowing leaves and the chance discovery of spiky, sweet chestnuts, milky hazel nuts or golden chanterelles. Our native woodlands are confined to deep ravines where the rowans, birches and […]