With the start of January 2017 came a beautiful soft blanket of snow that transiently covered the streets of Aberdeen city and most of Scotland. Snow for me has always been magical. I love to watch it and I love to walk in it. I love the crunch underfoot, the drifting purity of it and … Continue reading Sparkler in the Snow

 I love seeing the snowdrops bloom, they are such hardy yet beautiful flowers. I find this poem called 'snowdrop' by Ted Hughes quite strange and haunting. Snowdrop Now is the globe shrunk tight Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart. Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass, Move through an outer darkness Not in their … Continue reading Snowdrops