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Scotland’s Year of Stories, Wick Voices, and Our Cultural Landscape

By: Gail Anthea Brown April 22, 2022June 15, 2022

Author, Caithness, Opinion, Scotland, UncategorizedFeatured, Home, People and Place, Rural Living, Scotland's Year of Stories, Scottish Highlands, The Shepherd's Life, Wick Voices3 Comments

I’ve written a lot about stories, how they shape and define places. Here in the north Highlands, it can sometimes feel that our stories are being written (or perhaps, rewritten) for us – a landscape of wilderness in which we not appear. I was comforted recently reading The Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks’ beautiful account of…

Mallaig, Memories and My Nana

By: Gail Anthea Brown June 14, 2020August 2, 2021

Love, Reflections, Scotland, UncategorizedFamily, Mallaig, Memories, People and Place, Place, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Writer20 Comments

Growing up, two places dominated my experience of childhood. Caithness, because it was where we lived, and Mallaig, because it was where we took all our holidays. The latter also had a special attraction: it was where Nana and Iain lived (Nana being my paternal Grandmother and Iain my uncle, who lived with Nana due…