A walk around the streets of Wick in Caithness offers a ghost-walk of words - names of prior businesses, warnings, marks of ownership - layered one over the other.
Here is a collection of my favourites.
I do like this. I hope to make a little trip to Wick myself this summer, looking up traces of herring in Scotland - and even tastes. (For a book or a master) But the last part (tastes) seems to be difficult. The restaurant "Silver Darlings" serves all fish but herring...
I'm a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and radio drama. Recent books include a novel, Call of the Undertow, and non-fiction Doubling Back: ten paths trodden in memory. Both are grounded in particular landscapes - a big interest of mine. I teach and facilitate creative writing in a variety of settings at home and abroad. From July 2012- June 2016 I was writer in residence with the Sick Kids Friends Foundation in Edinburgh collaborating with illustrator Cate James - see All Write. I am currently writer-in-residence at George Watson's College - see THE DOOR.
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I do like this. I hope to make a little trip to Wick myself this summer, looking up traces of herring in Scotland - and even tastes. (For a book or a master) But the last part (tastes) seems to be difficult. The restaurant "Silver Darlings" serves all fish but herring...
Try Scrabster - there's a good seafood restaurant there!
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