Sun-trap warmth
A haven of calm and enveloping warmth in places blasted by wind and cold. A place where a monk arriving...
Mist-hung mountains
For ten years or so, Gavin Maxwell spent as much time as he could living in a remote cottage in...
Ice-scraped gneiss
Adam Nicolson's 'love letter' to some small, remote, uninhabited Scottish islands inherited from his father, illuminates the depth and richness...
Wind-coiffed heads
I liked this description of the sea in front of the boat looking like a crowd viewed from behind with...
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...
Sea-battered island
A perfect spot for a hermit, even more so in the seventh century.
'... a hermit living on...
Spring-time welcome
My heart also expands at the spring-time welcome of where I live and where I visit. Here, the detail of...
Heard it on the radio
This sweeping and damning judgement of England, found entirely wanting, is contrasted with the simplicity of the source, the radio.
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Who needs maps?
Here is a long winded anecdote, no doubt embellished in the re-telling, which you can stash away in your own...
Easy-limbed stirring
I liked this description of a boat responding like a limber-limbed youth to the movement of the sea. 'Easy-limbed stirring'...
Wind-besieged islands
The North Sea is full of such islands and Nicolson finds in a place of 'sun-trap warmth', sheltered from the...
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