INTRODUCTORY

I'm here on the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides on the last day of the annual writing course I have led for many years now. We have been blessed with the most perfect of days in mid-October: hard to believe it is this late in the year. It feels appropriate too to be writing a first blog in this place that has meant so much all through my life; the place indeed where I learned to walk as a baby!