Greetings Story Lovers,There's the slightest chill in the air and I can feel the first hints of Autumn here in Scotland. Quite the opposite of my recent trip to the desert, but that's another story for another time!Very briefly: I had a wonderful tim...

Greetings Story Lovers, There's the slightest chill in the air and I can feel the first hints of Autumn here in Scotland. Quite the opposite of my recent trip to the desert, but that's another story for another time!This is a brief mail to announce t...

Greetings all,I hope your summer has been filled with adventure, long bright evenings and tales told by open fires.I feel like I've almost had too much adventure this summer having journeyed to Norway, the Hebrides and South West England. It's been e...

Warm greetings from the height of Scottish summer,It seems the sun never sets in Scotland in June and there is a verdant lushness to the land.I've been at festivals these past two weekends, and am building up to a primitive skills trip to Norway at t...

Greetings all,The summer has all of a sudden sprung in Scotland, and today was very much a 'taps aff' kind of day. Celebrating the sun, I boldly made my way into a stream before realising all of the stones were covered in a thin slimy algae that is t...

I first met Lynx Vilden in 2017 at a primitive fishing camp in the west of Ireland. I was unfamiliar with her semi-legendary status in the primitive skills world, only hearing of the camp through a friend, and essentially looking for an excuse to vis...

Has a story ever moved you in such a way you feel changed upon hearing it? Has a myth or wonder tale ever worked a subtle magic leaving you with the feeling that the world is somehow different? It’s happened to me a few times…hence I’m asking the que...

My storytelling journey started truly when I became a father. I knew that surrounding my daughter with stories would resource her well. Steiner, Einstein and other knowledgeable types seemed to agree about the merit of fairy tales and the development...

Ah Knockengorroch World ceilidh. Scotland’s undisputed, premier music festival to those familiar with such muddy foot-stomping field gatherings, and a quizzical mouthful for those unacquainted. It was a special year according to many folk.  Maybe the...

Last week I was invited to share stories through in a country park outside Glasgow. The theme of the event was Scarecrows, and a number of community groups, schools and ethnic groups had participated in the project by creating their own scarecrow to...

Friday past (24/4/15) saw the successful launch of a project exploring the synergistic relationship between folk culture, and the modern socio-political landscape. Myself, Janis Mackay, David Campbell and David Francis, played with the hypothesis, th...

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