“badgerlands on fire in the early morning sun” It’s weeks since I’ve swum in the loch, the weather has been wild and the water choppy and uninviting, I seem to […]
Back in the saddle
It’s an early, soft, pale grey Saturday when we raise the e-bike on top of the car alongside David’s road bike for the short drive to Drumnadrochit from where we’ve […]
Half Life
I’m standing at a cliff edge leaning out, rocking gently backwards and forwards onto my toes, finding my balance. A salty, sharp breeze lifts my hair suddenly and a metallic […]
Cheat
Tears pour down my face as David drives us to the shop. I should be excited, elated and a small quiet corner of me is but right now, right at […]
Love song to the lost
Sunset over Loch Ness from the Byre Looking back at the blog entries over the past few months I wonder if it all looks too relentlessly bleak. Themes of death […]
I’m here. I hear. I know.
A place to sit and think by Lochness A friend of ours has cancer. A fellow cyclist, someone I’ve spent many hours cycling alongside. Another fit, happy, life-loving, positive person […]
Scattered
Looking up to ‘badgerlands’ ‘Where do you want to be scattered when you die?’ B asks out of the blue. It trips me up in more ways than one and […]