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Monique Sliedrecht
Mar 7, 20233 min read
March White Out
Here I was thinking that I would return to a spring-filled Scotland and that the daffodils would be out, but as one friend gently...
Monique Sliedrecht
Feb 23, 20231 min read
Morning Call
The other day I woke up to the sound of the Northern Cardinal singing from the top of the pine tree in my parents back garden. It sent a...
Monique Sliedrecht
Feb 16, 20232 min read
All Weather Hope
This week is the 25th anniversary of the Angel of the North, one of the most impressive pieces of public art ever created in the United...
Monique Sliedrecht
Feb 13, 20233 min read
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
Going across to Orkney feels like being on holiday, even though it’s only an hour away, and the landscape is very similar to Caithness. I...
Monique Sliedrecht
Feb 8, 20232 min read
New Life in New Mexico
In the late 1990s I found myself in an incredible new environment, one that was completely foreign, strange and marvellous. I became a...
Monique Sliedrecht
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Magnetic
The new morning brought a pause in the wind, a stillness over the land and sea. Moonlight streamed through the windows and when I looked...
Monique Sliedrecht
Feb 2, 20234 min read
The Coming of the Light
Stormy Sky... by Joan Eardley, 1962 The wind has been blowing a gale. I heard it whip around the house in the wee hours of the morning...
Monique Sliedrecht
Jan 17, 20233 min read
Stopped Dead in My Tracks
Photo by M.Sliedrecht Brrr. It’s cold this morning. And snowy! It seems an unusual amount of snow for the north of Scotland, and for...
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