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Here in the Cairngorms, Winter has put on quite the show. I know it might not be over. There is probably more snow and ice …

It started well. The party included my new husband, Alistair, and three friends, all experienced climbers. I was the only newbie but, hey, I’d grown …

It was one of those lost days between Christmas and New Year when we should have been travelling home from family in Yorkshire but had …

The regulars were arriving for their slap-up Christmas dinner. Some faces glowing, others uncertain and sad. Damp coats steaming on the hooks above the radiator. …

The Cairngorms Lyric is a new kind of poem I invented in 2019 when I was Cairngorms National Park Writer in Residence, facilitating Shared Stories: …

Millions of people around the world are celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Light, and it always takes me back to South Asia where I was …

“October is the coloured month,” Nan Shepherd wrote in The Living Mountain her now-celebrated account of her relationship with the Cairngorm range of Scotland. Here, …

Friends and faithful readers of Writing the Way, I cannot tell you how happy I am to share this news with you. Below is today’s …

The ospreys have gone. I went away for a week and when I got back, the strath had slipped into autumn and the eyrie above …