In between my two stints in Inverness (second one still going, of course, with no end in sight – which is no bad thing), I spent eighteen months in Glasgow. Apart from the rain, pollution, accent, insular attitude, sectarianism, Buckfast, traffic and lack of access to the hills, I really enjoyed it. Glasgow boasts (and…
Happy World Book Day, everyone. If, of course, you’re not too busy celebrating St David’s Day in Wales, National Pig Day in the USA or the rather enticing prospect of Iceland’s Beer Day. As part of World Book Day today, I was privileged to be invited to a local secondary school, Millburn Academy, to do…
I discovered quite by accident today that Up The Creek Without a Mullet is now available on iBooks, Apple’s rather funky ebook reader for the iPhone and iPad. Much as I am a huge fan of both ebooks as a concept and iBooks as an application, Apple don’t, for some reason, have as many titles…
I was tickled to be directed by Fraser to this competition on the Bradt website – a travel writing competition with the theme “up the creek”. I’ve no idea if they’ve been inspired by UTCWAM but part of me is sorely tempted to enter simply by posting them a copy. I’ll not be doing, though…