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Chunky Cauliflower Oumph Vegan Curry
Ingredients (serves four) A little sunflower oil1 leek, choppeda red pepper, dicedan apple, peeled and cored, diced1 heaped teaspoon each of these spices: cumin, fenugreek, turmeric1 cauliflower,...
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hummus, sunrise, and a book in between
Homemade hummus in the early morning sun. Little bit of parsley in it. Basic recipe here. The book in between is THE MERMAID AND THE BEAR. Set in a fictional castle in Aberdeenshire, Ailish Sinclair’s...
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preserving: redcurrant jelly with rosemary
A post from 2010, updated for 2020, partly because we’ve been making the recipe again. Redcurrants are also great to preserve for winter, given that they’re so nutrient rich and have immune boosting...
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Chestnut Roast for Christmas or Thanksgiving
A very nice chestnut roast, the sweet spiciness of the nuts making it quite different in flavour to our cashew and walnut ones. Serves four generously. Fry off 2 large red onions and 4 sticks of...
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Eating Vegan Trifle, Reading and Sunsets
Eating: a simple trifle made of bananas in vegan jelly, topped with thick custard and this rather nice provamel cream (we were lucky enough to find a few of these cheaply on Approved Food recently)....
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If Candlemas Day is clear and bright…
This Candlemas (2nd of February) post was originally published in 2014. Hot at Candlemas I just sat in the hot place. It was good. It was sunny and bright, though it offered only a vague warmth today....
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Witches’ Brooms in the Trees
The witches’ brooms of this post are actually deformities in trees, often caused by a fungus. I rather like them, both their appearance and their name, probably because of interests like this....
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Woodland Pictures from the Time of Lockdown
These woodland pictures were originally posted in 2020 during lockdown. Lost in Writing I am lost in writing. I am in the Iron Age. Second draft. Rough edges. Rough middle. Super-rough ending. Full of...
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A Loch Through the Seasons: mist, sunsets and snow
Clouds of mist swirl over the surface of the loch. The picture above was taken after an unexpectedly hot day led to unexpectedly beautiful conditions. Well, not completely unexpected. It’s always...
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Gight Castle and the Hagberry Pot
Gight Castle may be one of the lesser known castles of Aberdeenshire but it has a rich, if somewhat bleak, history with many of its owners dying prematurely. Built in the 15th century by the Gordon...
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When I’m Away From the Keyboard…
Every so often I step away from the keyboard and take a day off. Not because I want to. I resist and avoid and cling to my desk in a desperate fashion. Friends persuade and entice me outside. And it...
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The Dule Tree of Leith Hall
History of the Dule Tree The Dule Tree at Leith Hall is one of the best known examples of this type of historical tree. It is said to have been used as both a gallows and a gibbet in the past. The...
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Culloden and Clava: Battlefield and Cairns
This post details a 2014 trip to Culloden Battlefield and the nearby Clava Cairns. Off We Go A bright blue sky day. Good for a journey up the coast and into the past. I stopped to take a picture of...
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Into the Woods…
It’s three weeks until TENDU releases. It’s been a long time coming, and a lot of my heart is in that book. I need to go into the woods. So, here we go, through different times and places, for the...
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Autumn Leaves and a Lack of Words
I took a quiet walk through autumn leaves at Aden Park. Peering through an old tree: Up by the Mansion House: Blue and green should most definitely be seen… Some of the newer plantings have not...
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Brightness in the Gloaming
The gloaming. Twilight. The sun is currently setting early here in Scotland. People are saying: “Aye, the nights are fairly drawing in…” There’s been no frost yet, so brightness still exists within...
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Running into the Forest…
I walk into the forest along the gnarly loch-side path. Most of the leaves have fallen now – we’ve had that first frost – but I spy something golden and bright at the end of the tunnel. I run towards...
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Calm and Steadfast like a Tree
That’s how I feel today. Calm. Steadfast. A little like a tree. I’m back in the place where I’m happy. Writing. Of course, writing. Steadfast Writing Update A Dancer’s Journey is basically complete....
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Sea King over Glen Affric in the Highlands
Here we go, into Glen Affric… A pictorial post about beautiful Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands. Page on it here Loch Beinn a’ Mheadhain Beside the Dog Falls… Loch Beinn a’ Mheadhain from another...
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Five Go on an Island Adventure: Islay
Arriving on Islay We arrived in the dark. On a boat. It missed the pier and had to spin round and go back out to sea before trying again. It was all very exciting. Port Askaig So, the five of us –...
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