cybercrofter

It has been an odd period recently. A funeral. An ancient ceremonial walk. A cave. A camp. Huge tides. Last weekend we were at one of my fa...

When I was a creative writing student at Glasgow University, a decade ago, one of our most memorable workshops was with Janice Galloway. I r...

Our new boat is in the water now and we're enjoying life aboard. I dropped my favourite bucket overboard yesterday - a lovely blue rubbe...

Here's our lovely new boat, but what should we paint the red and the white bits with? It’s the time of year when we boat owners are...

Some objects are spookily fascinating. There is a stone head in the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street in Edinburgh. (I can...

Archilochos, ancient Greek poet, said of the solar eclipse: 'Nothing there is beyond hope, nothing that can be sworn impossible, noth...

This wonderfully evocative photo (from the Shutterstone website ) is of the staircase in the Carloway Broch on the Isle of Lewis, just ove...