Listening to Rona and Colin chatting is like listening to any old friends catching up. They are sitting in Rona’s kitchen on Thursday afternoon talking about mutual pals; they both went to Crown Primary School in Inverness. They talk about growing up on the same Inverness street, and living and working just yards apart from… Read more »
Posts Categorized: HNM Column
Madeleine McCann. It could have happened to any parent.
Gerry and Kate McCann have lived through a decade of hell. Unless you have been enjoying a media blackout you’ll be aware that this week marks 10 years since three year old Madeleine McCann disappeared from her bed while her parents ate tapas with friends in a holiday resort in the Algarve. The apparent abduction… Read more »
Woefully underprepared – but Etape Loch Ness is in the bag.
I have rarely been so sure I was doing the right thing as I was at 6 o’clock last Sunday morning. I had been harbouring serious doubts about whether I was up to it, but as we cycled through Inverness city centre towards the start line of Etape Loch Ness 2017, my fears began to… Read more »
Superbikes to Super Fishbox. Meet Magnus.
Answer this honestly – as a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? And when you look at what you do for a living now – do you recognise those dreams? Is this the career you planned for yourself, or did you just happen to be in the right place at… Read more »
Chilling. A trip to the The Jersey War Tunnels
I’m not prone to being over-emotional – I rarely cry (except when watching The Sound of Music) but I was forced to dry my eyes while in Jersey for a couple of days last week. I was on a work trip, spending a couple of days there before writing an article for Connect, the magazine… Read more »
The Ukulele numbness blues…and cook local!
I woke up this morning with numbness in my left hand. So of course I turned to Google, and what I read there alarmed me. Numbness of the fingers is associated with long standing uncontrolled diabetes, nerve damage in the neck and alcohol abuse. Last time I checked I was alright for most of those,… Read more »
Advice from Kate Adie, and thoughts on #Indyref2
I was in Edinburgh last week to host the 2017 Investing Women Ambition and Growth Conference. It was a tremendous couple of days, and the entrepreneurs who had signed up – both men and women – were treated to a variety of keynote speeches, workshops and 1-2-1 sessions with professional advisers and potential investors. Part… Read more »
Rethinking my work life balance
I have just looked back at my diary to see that I’ve worked every day for the last four weeks, apart from last Thursday. Before you think I’m going moan about being under pressure or being unable to get my work life balance in order, let me reassure you that I was – and am… Read more »
Embrace Outlanders – or be left out in the cold
The Highlands are missing a tourism trick. Yes, we do great things with Nessie. North Coast 500 is phenomenally successful, and our landscape and scenery are – in my biased opinion – second to none. But who is catering for Outlander fans? It’s hard to describe a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon in just a couple… Read more »
Ladies who lunch – with purpose
Ladies who lunch – with purpose Earlier this week I took a couple of hours out to have lunch with the girls. I know what you’re thinking. ‘Lunch with the girls’ has certain connotations; pink cardigans, pink lipstick and pink Prosecco, and chatter about relationships, holidays and clothes. But it wasn’t like that at all…. Read more »