Crafty Green Poet

The ash is one of my favourite trees. It is also one of the commonest trees in British woodlands. Unfortunately it is now threatened by ash ...

On Sunday afternoon I was at a Water of Leith Conservation Trust volunteer meeting, where we passed round a jar which contained a piece of ...

You may remember, quite a while ago I blogged about an exciting opportunity for your bunny or bunnies to star in my novel (a piece of specul...

clouds between the trees near the Water of Leith .   I really enjoyed reading The Invention of Clouds (which I review here ) but it l...

There are two lovely wooded cemeteries near where we live. They are particularly atmospheric at this time of year. We visited Dalry Cemetery...

At the moment I'm teaching a creative writing class at the Ripple Project , which is based at Restalrig and Lochend Community Hub in Edi...

As most readers of this blog probably know I love rivers so I was very keen to see the film Swandown , which had only one showing at The Fil...