Blogs

  • Captain Coquet’s Corner: Roseate Tern City

    Captain Coquet’s Corner: Roseate Tern City

    13th August 2015

    Coquet Island becomes Roseate Tern City The 2015 season on Coquet Island has seen fabulous numbers…

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  • Age of insecurity: Society is all of us

    Age of insecurity: Society is all of us

    13th August 2015

    Sensory bombardment isn’t an easy thing to handle. So many changes have taken place recently, both…

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  • Age of Insecurity: too much negativity

    Age of Insecurity: too much negativity

    14th July 2015

    Health is the basis of an active life, but nobody beats the years. I’ll admit to…

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  • Age of insecurity: Robots taking our jobs

    Age of insecurity: Robots taking our jobs

    8th May 2015

    A conversation with a very able and experienced primary school teacher got me thinking about schools…

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  • Age of insecurity: Help one another

    Age of insecurity: Help one another

    2nd April 2015

    Many years ago I asked my younger daughter, then at primary school, what she thought about…

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  • Island stirs into life after long winter

    Island stirs into life after long winter

    24th March 2015

    Over the winter months the RSPB staff and volunteers have been busy doing all those jobs…

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  • Our Ages of Insecurity

    Our Ages of Insecurity

    6th February 2015

    Many years ago, I asked my younger daughter, then at primary school, what she thought about…

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  • New column: Age of insecurity

    New column: Age of insecurity

    18th December 2014

    The enemy of insecurity is confidence, a commodity in short supply these days. Prospects of secure,…

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  • Marooned on Coquet Island

    Marooned on Coquet Island

    3rd December 2014

    “Worse things happen at sea” A rather unexpected turn of events this autumn resulted in site…

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  • Our age of insecurity – part 3

    Our age of insecurity – part 3

    21st October 2014

    The six and a half million carers, of all ages, who look after relatives and others,…

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