Silence in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain”
Having disciplined mind and body to quiescence, I must discipline them also to activity. The senses must be used. For the ear, the most vital thing that can be listened…
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October in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd, “The Heart of the Mountain”
Among drifts of these purple glowing birches, an occasional rowan looks dead; its naked boughs are a smooth white-grey, almost ghastly as the winter light runs over them. The rowan’s…
200 Years of Tipperary’s Lost and Found Wellington Monument
Along the Grange Crag Loop walk,near the village of Grange in the Slieveardagh Hills, one comes across an arresting monument built two hundred years ago. Almost unbelievably (when you contemplate…
“Lackendarra” published in Alt Hist 9
My story Lackendarra has heen published in issue 9 of Alt Hist, the bestselling magazine of historical fiction http://althistfiction.com/2016/10/23/alt-hist-issue-9-published/ Heres the cover. Here are some Comeragh photos to mark the…
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