Books
A heart full of headstones review
John Rebus is right at the heart of the book, though it’s an older, slower, inhaler sucking Rebus this time round. By Catherine Williams
KoS Development Trust
Keep Active Together: a successful year
As I approach my first full year of delivering classes for KoSDT, it feels like an ideal moment to reflect on the progress we’ve made.
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Poems
House Fire
IT is now nearly 2026. Next year (2027) it will be fifty years since my rebuilt croft house on the west coast was burned to the ground
Wildlife & Nature
Plant galls
You might have noticed strange, bulbous growths on oak leaves or rose stems. These curious structures, called galls, are nature’s hidden laboratories — formed when [...]
Films
How to train your dragon
This year’s How to Train your Dragon serves as definitive proof that live-action remakes can transcend the animated source material