Mist-hung mountains
For ten years or so, Gavin Maxwell spent as much time as he could living in a remote cottage in...
Cretan KPIs – Key Penmanship Indicators – VII
I found this description of the stark Cretan landscape startlingly original, using good prose as a metaphor and incidentally giving...
Wind Island
The first edition of this book I found, at a flea market, was a French translation, and it took me...
Puffins on a dance floor
By the time you finish reading Sea Room, you may or may not have fallen in love with the Shiant...
Poems for my family 003 – Donne
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
This is the third poem I chose to share with my family, copied out by...
As slender as…
An unusual simile for slenderness, applied to an elliptical island in a river.
'... an island as slender as a...
Milk-blue sky
I hope you find time, now and then, to lie in the long grass while birds fly above you, and...
Appetite for the absolute
Perhaps the enduring attraction to island life isn't just to get away from the rest of it, or to enjoy...
Intimate with hugeness
A wonderful way to describe bobbing on the sea close to the sheer cliffs of the islands, and edging towards still,...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s Sea Room
Listening time: 19 minutes. Having inherited, at the age of 21, the Shiants, three small islands east of...
Spring-time clothes
A thrilling image of glittering northern waters in a moment of calm and gentleness.
'Crossing from Scalpay in...
Hare-bell sea
A lyrical description of the Greek island of Thera, bursting with flowers and trees, and all sloping down to a...
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