[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ater, the elemental essence of life, of our bodies. A visceral trickle running down the flank of a hill. Yet walking in drought and the bare bones of the hills creak under foot, the brittle and brown grasses...
Category - Foraging & Outings
Women and the Land
About 15 years ago I was living and working in Dubai. A desert with the world’s biggest buildings on it, and a high street which is an eight-lane motorway, where public ‘gardens’ are created and removed overnight, trees in...
Old Ways and New Journeys
I’m nothing more than someone who is trying to gain an understanding of my past history through...
Living off the Land
Unless you are a forager, you might not know that the early leaves of the rowan tree taste like...
Kill or cure
A late spring can bring feelings of malaise and tiredness. One of the tonics common to Orkney last...
Cape Wrath – What’s in a Name?
When Bob Tateson retired from teaching in Orkney he volunteered to help look after the bothies in...
Walking with Ravens and Wonder
Soaring. That is the word. On top of the world, or so it seems, above the busy valleys below, side...
On the road in Sutherland
A bitterly cold east wind hurls its force through the darkness outside the building, but all...
Photographing distant skies
Alan Tough got his first compact digital camera back in 2003. “There was a spectacular aurora in...
Scenes of Sutherland
It’s some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and it’s on Orkney’s doorstep. Bob Tateson...