Wintering wildfowl populations
In 2014 I visited Carsebreck curling pond. It is a very special place now populated by wintering wildfowl rather than people. I made a film but was never truly happy … Continue reading Wintering wildfowl populations
Tag: Nan Shepherd
The first law of ecology
[words] Nan Shepherd [painting] Eric Redmond
‘Miss Ironside is specialising in life’
From ‘The Quarry Wood’ by Nan Shepherd
Last Monday
The following poem is addressed to Robert Hepburn who died in Temple, 1798. It is based on a stone gateway that has out-survived the house that it once introduced. [Necessary … Continue reading Last Monday
“rock that is older than thought”
In today’s Herald, Rab McNeill shares the wonder of reading previously unpublished poems by Nan Shepherd and how this inspired him to add a line from one of these poems … Continue reading “rock that is older than thought”
an ordinary Degree
I gained two ordinary degrees before becoming a specialist. Sian, my wife, has been a General Practitioner in all the time that we have been together. I am now retired … Continue reading an ordinary Degree
incredible shapes
A passage from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
Omphalos films
[The above quote “Shapes, sounds, the energies and acuteness of life,” is from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd]