Where my work is going and what new releases you shall see, with additional rambling about mental health and the world burning. I recently threatened to post a blog here and, worryingly, it looks like that threat came true, if…
I have shared this photo of ridgelines in Highland Perthshire before, in my essay “Trees, A Brief Personal History.” It is a favourite of mine, illustrating how Scottish weather, so oft-derided, can actually increase the beauty of a photograph. Being…
I have fallen into bad ways. Oddly bad ways. Lately I’ve been blogging away merrily, knocking out drafts and edits aplenty but, for some weird reason, I have not actually managed to post them here. Instead they languish in “Unpublished…
Find your niche, they say, then make it yours! (They often say this with an exclamation point!)!! (Deliberate over-punctuation there, sorry.) What’s your Unique Selling Point (USP)? (And, yes, I did put ‘an’ before USP in the title — I…
I will expand on this note in the future, but for now this should suffice. Some years ago I made a decision to step back from social media. The reasons behind this will be one of the things I’ll talk…
This website was stitched together slowly, pieces added hither and thither over many months. I have tried to keep it ticking over, aware that it never properly launched, never yet used as intended. I have learnt about WordPress over this time, themes,…
This post is designed to serve a dual purpose. Firstly, it is a test post for me — I’ve been messing around with widgets and sidebars after a couple of issues developed. I am hopeful these are now solved and, in…
Expect more on Operation Rising Cream soon. Needless to say I have yet to make a definitive decision on the whole matter. When one has spent years of one’s life working on something, one wants the best for one’s work.…
So, don’t you just hate how many people these days seem to start sentences with “so”? I mean, it’s everywhere — Radio 4 is a big culprit, but then so are real flesh and blood people on the streets. Or anywhere…
I am now back at the word-grindstone, after having re-ordered and pulled, poked and prodded my manuscript into something now resembling the “correct order”. If such a thing exists. You are only reading this because I have already hit my…
