Sometimes I really love my job. Most times, in fact. But that sense of appreciation, gratitude and good fortune has been particularly acute these past couple of weeks – and it’s something that I’ve noticed among my freelance friends, as well. […]
Straight news today, for those of you following the ‘David and Goliath’ battle between French multinational EDF and the crofters fighting them for the rights to develop wind farms on their common grazings… The Scottish Land Court has announced dates […]
It has been a crazy time – absolutely crazy, with work. I’ve been running so many PR jobs lately that I’m like the proverbial plate spinner. It’s an interesting thing, self-employment, particularly when it’s all deadline driven. Every so often, […]
There are public stories and there are private ones. Very occasionally, the one story will be both. The story that I’m going to tell here is profoundly personal but also so well known among Leodhasaich of a certain generation that it’s […]
Friday — and I’m feeling almost punch drunk. Completely dazed, thrown about, and wondering ‘what just happened here?’ In a good way, I think. What a week it has been. There has been so much going on – some of […]
It’s been a big weekend. I’m a bit lost for words so I’m just going to share with you here a news release put out last night from the organisers of the Highlands and Islands Press Ball and Media Awards… Lewis-based journalist Katie Laing’s coverage […]
“Get out of your own way” — as someone who’s come up with Plans B, C and even D just in case Plan A didn’t work out, this has to be one of my favourite motivational quotes. And this New […]