Each month we try to have an Autumn Voices member contribute to the blog. This could be anything from poetry to pottery and if you’d like to be a guest blogger then apply once you’re logged in as a member.
On the 1st of December, 1980, I bundled two small boys, two collie dogs and some random bags bulging with essential everyday paraphernalia into my yellow Ford Escort. I loved that car! I was setting off on a journey from Tain up in Rosshire, all the way down to the south to the quiet little … Continue reading A High Street Vet
All images taken by Polly Pullar Sleep has been hard to come by, for I have been rising in the small hours to nurture a minute red squirrel kit, rescued by a Braemar Mountain Rescue Team member, and aptly described as ‘another climber’. We care about red squirrels. Imagine one hundred people together from all … Continue reading Squirrel
‘If you go down to the woods today . . .’ . . . you don’t usually expect to come face-to-face with an emu. But last week I did. And I have to admit that, fence or no fence, he was a scary-looking character! I’d gone for a walk from the small Perthshire town of … Continue reading ‘If you go down to the woods today . . .’
Our CLANGERS project has come to a natural end, but our content from Autumn Voices members and bloggers goes on! We thoroughly recommend you continue to practice the principles of CLANGERS as part of your creative activities, and you may yet here more from us about them (this is deliberate intrigue on our part here) but we … Continue reading A Scottish Seabird Centre Volunteer writes . . .
Renita kindly offered us some of her bedtime stories to help us nod off to sleep last month. To round things off, and to get us into the mood for our September theme of pets, animals and the natural world and our forthcoming poetry competition, she has a woodland theme and a poem for us. … Continue reading Renita’s Last Bedtime Story
Renita has kindly offered us some of her bedtime stories to help us nod off to sleep this month. She normally reads them to young children, but we think bedtime stories are for everyone, so either share this with someone to help them fall asleep or keep it all to yourself! As a preface to … Continue reading Renita’s Bedtime Story
My Open University degree was in maths and sciences – several different sciences. I then worked for fifteen years in geology, and another fifteen years in botany, with my part-time Strathclyde doctorate being in information science. So, I can’t say anything about sleep with any degree of scientific authority. What I’ve learned about the science … Continue reading Sleep Patterns
Renita has kindly offered us some of her bedtime stories to help us nod off to sleep this month. She normally reads them to young children, but we think bedtime stories are for everyone, so either share this with someone to help them fall asleep or keep it all to yourself! As a preface to … Continue reading Another Bedtime Story
If you haven’t already, read the blog post by Diana Hendry which this is a reply too. This is Beloved speaking, from my snug, snory, comfy cabin under the eaves, where I spend each night in an effort to provide Sweetcheeks (and myself) some chance of some sleep. We always begin each bedtime together in … Continue reading Sleep – Beloved Replies
Renita has kindly offered us some of her bedtime stories to help us nod off to sleep this month. She normally reads them to young children, but we think bedtime stories are for everyone, so either share this with someone to help them fall asleep or keep it all to yourself! As a preface to … Continue reading Renita’s Bedtime Story
Last night was a bad one. In bed by eleven, still awake at two. Try reading. Try stomping around. Try paracetamol. Wake Beloved who is snoring sweetly in the spare room, for one of those wee-small-hours conversations about the state of the world/my life. Sleep three until six. Hope Radio 4 might give me another … Continue reading Sleep
Eleanor Livingstone is a Scottish poet and editor who lives in Fife. She was Festival Director of StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival from 2010 to March 2021, after five years as the festival’s Artistic Director. This year StAnza was voted Best Literary Festival in the UK Saboteur Awards. Before StAnza Eleanor worked as a paralegal … Continue reading Relaxing
Our modern world is very stressful, and we make it more so by valuing busyness and ‘doing’. We are bombarded by subtle and not-so-subtle messages that the harder we work, the more we do, the more we own, the better. We need to remember sometimes that the world is like this because we made it … Continue reading John Burns on Relaxation
61-year-old Lee Randall is a freelance writer, presenter and festival programmer. She can be found on Twitter as @randallwrites. I am a champion relaxer. Except when I’m not. I love sitting still. I will sit on a sofa; I will sit in a bed; I will sit on a barstool blethering away; I will sit … Continue reading Champion relaxer
After you’re done reading we’d love for you to leave a comment at the bottom of the page, like this post on Facebook, or retweet it on Twitter. It really helps more people discover our work! During an early morning trawl through new emails in my various accounts, I was intrigued to find an interesting … Continue reading Relaxation
