‘I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by Thy side. The works that i have in hand I will finish afterwards…’ (R.Tagore) As the first day of September – and the end of the summer – is fast approaching, I sit under a tree and pause to reflect on the abundance of these last […]
It’s a damp day out there – so perfect for spending some time writing for our Newsletter… The trees we planted on the land last autumn and this spring are celebrating the life-giving rain after the warm sunny weeks we’ve just had. The transformation out there at this time of the year always blows me […]
‘Value the marginal’ – An appreciation of the ‘edges.’ As I write this, it’s still just the middle of Feb, so theoretically still winter. Winter here has been mostly wet & windy with just a week when snow covered everything with a beautiful glistening white blanket. The winter is usually the time when we get […]
‘Be still, and listen…’ (Eileen Caddy) While the rest of the world is warming up at an alarming rate, here in the North of Scotland we’ve had a cool summer and an unusually wet and windy autumn. And now the autumn colours paint the landscapes in various shades of glorious yellow, golden and red – […]
It’s late, as I write this… and yet – there is still a golden glow in the tops of the trees and the air smells of summer… Erica and Calluna vulgaris have painted patches of purple heather on the land once the spring’s yellows faded. June was warm and dry – the warmest and driest […]
‘Behold my brother and sisters, the spring has come, The earth has received the embraces of the sun And we shall soon see the results of that love !’ (Sitting Bull) Finally the cold days seem to be over! (Though the gardeners in our nearby town religiously refuse to plant their flowers until the 21st […]
Early February: Henry Frosbooke has just finished his offering of ‘Drum baths’ at the Woodland Shelter and is setting up for his part in our fundraising event in the Universal Hall tonight. With Alan’s amazing photographs, Carolina’s singing and more, we are trying to raise funds for a wee wood-stove for the ‘Shepherd’s Hut’ – […]
Looking out of my window, as I am reflecting on the past few months on the land, I am in awe of the beauty of our ‘golden October’. In awe of nature’s color-schemes. The ocean of yellow in the gorse at spring-time gave way to the purple of the heathers in the summer, and now […]
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News from the Land
Much has happened on the land since I last wrote for our newsletter. Our settlement keeps expanding – a new, exciting stage of building more homes, the Duneridge project – has just begun. Most of the more dramatic changes have been written about by those more directly involved, for example the dunes restoration project. This […]