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Added on 01 September 2012

We are coming to the end of another busy year of cruising, with a lecturing trip for me (without Sue) to Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia and Antigua in the Caribbean in November. Although many companies are cutting down on their lecture bookings so they can sell the extra cabins instead, we have some g...

Wild Flowers Mini-Guide

Added on 10 July 2012

To complement my Scottish Wild Flowers book, Birlinn Ltd has now published a smaller 'Mini Guide to Scottish Wild Flowers'. This is a stripped-down, 200-page version of the original guide, covering the commonest Scottish species but in rather less detail, and with fewer features. It's i...

Passage to Tristan da Cunha

Added on 25 January 2012

We have just returned from an amazing 32-day cruise, organised by Noble Caledonia on board the 5-star expedition ship Island Sky. It took us and 90-odd lucky passengers to places I certainly never thought we'd be able to visit. We flew out to join the ship on the Cape Verde islands, with a day ...

"Scottish Wild Flowers" relaunch

Added on 24 January 2012

I am delighted that the Edinburgh publishing house, Birlinn, have now republished my Scottish Wild Flowers guide, which Harper-Collins had let go out of print. I took the opportunity to fully updated the species names, families and order of presentation to the latest taxonomic thinking, while still...