Author: robinacrawford

Robin Crawford is an author and illustrator, with a particular interest in the culture and natural heritage of Scotland. His first book, ‘Into the Peatlands: A Journey Through the Moorland Year’, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. ‘Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers’ (2020) is a treasury of Scottish Words. His third book ‘The Sound of Many Waters, A Jjourney along the River Tay’ is published in June 2023 by Birlinn. He lives in Auchtermuchty, in Fife.

Stag Bakeries van, Lewis

August 28, 2018 robinacrawfordLeave a comment

When you have the Stag Bakeries van who needs the Great British Bake Off?

“Now and then we passed a hut or two, with neither window nor chimney, and the smoke of the peat fire rolling out at the door…”

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 robinacrawfordLeave a comment

Today I saw Claire Tomalin @edbookfest her biography of Charles Dickens is my favourite.

“…All the way, the road had been among moors and mountains with huge masses of rock, which fell down God knows where, sprinkling the ground in every direction, and giving it the aspect of the burial place of a race of giants. Now and then we passed a hut or two, with neither window nor chimney, and the smoke of the peat fire rolling out at the door. But there were not six of these dwellings in a dozen miles; and anything so bleak and wild, and mighty in its loneliness, as the whole country, it is impossible to conceive. Glencoe itself is perfectly terrible…” Dickens, July 1841