Tag: Walking

  • Singing My Way Back Home

    Singing My Way Back Home

    I’m preparing a Spanish tortilla in my folks kitchen. I can only describe the sounds coming out of my phone as “fluid landscape”. The Reeling by Brighde Chaimbeul, the award-winning young piper from Skye. We had a family holiday on Skye in September 1998 that I will never forget, and the Reelings are bringing back…

  • Where is the Centre of the World? Between your own two feet.

    Where is the Centre of the World? Between your own two feet.

    I’m sat in the ‘Ponder’ at my parents home in West Sussex, where I’m based for my Winter Holiday visit to the UK. The wind is whooping around and the blasts of rain on the glass roof and walls sound like pebbles on a tin roof.  Mum and Dad are in the cosy living room…