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• June 2, 2016

  Reflections on Orkney

  Last weekend I took a trip with my parents to visit Orkney and see St Magnus Cathedral’s ‘Weeping Window’ of several thousand poppies; part of commemorations for the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of World War One (Orkney’s Scapa Flow was the base for the British Navy’s Grand Fleet during the war.) It…
• May 19, 2016

  Walking on Sunshine

  This week is National Walk to School Week, part of a range of activities for National Walking Month. Typically, for us here in the Highlands of Scotland, this has coincided with grey and dismal weather, and in my case, two Minimen holed up at home with an unpleasant vomiting bug. The vomiting has held us…