Lorna Hill Water Story 12th February 2022

Lorna's session today was a memorable lesson in self care that cast us into the weekend on a warm sea of calm. Her RAW method calls us to

Read     Assess and be Aware     Write

Here prompt for the writing session was: 

Write about something you want to do 

and describe what it is and how it makes you feel

 

María Sabina

She drew on the wisdom of Mexican healer and poet Maria Sabina who would, I believe, have thoroughly approved:  

You are the medicine

Cure yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon.

With the sound of the river and the waterfall.

With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds.

Heal yourself with mint, with neem and eucalyptus.

Sweeten yourself with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile.

Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a touch of cinnamon.

Put love in tea instead of sugar, and take it looking at the stars.

Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain.

Get strong with bare feet on the ground and with everything that is born from it.

Get smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with the eye of your forehead.

Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier.

Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember: you are the medicine.

You can find more of this "Hot Soul Soup" and the Caribbean Housewife

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SHARING RESOURCES:

Among the sharing and feedback today there were some several recommendations:

Giovanna's website has audio 

Lynnda: Am listening to a wonderful book by Irish author Sinead Gleeson - 'Constellations'  Essays about the body - her experience of chronic pain, giving birth, cutting hair, having cancer and this poem 

Doreen and Lynnda recommended free courses at WEA Scotland

And as Lorna's prompt took many of us out for a cycle Lynnda suggested that the more wobbly among us might benefit from Free Wheel North

All of our guests in this series are in the process of contributing to the Lapidus Scotland Toolkit; do feel free to use this free resource either for your own practice or in group work.

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Thanks to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Catrice: Good morning, everyone! 🌿🌷🌿🌳

Karen: Hello lovely people

Lorna Hill: Good morning Catrice!

Kay: good morning catrice    lovely to see you  kx

Catrice: Hi Jo!!!

Catrice: Sheila 💚

Lynnda: Sounds like amazing therapy Sheila : )

Doreen: What do the A and W stand for in R.A.W. if R = Read? Please.

Lorna Hill: Read, Assess and aware and write

Lorna Hill: Write about something you want to do and describe what it is and how it makes you feel

Lorna Hill: Patricia let me know if this makes sense

Bev: nest in my chest!

Karen: That’s not depressing, it’s uplifting!

Lynnda: So good to have that experience and to have that feeling to hold onto Giovanna!

Doreen: I agree with Aileen

Bev: https: //giovannamackenna.com/

Catrice: Such peace Sheila.

Giovanna: “let the ashes of me loose” and how you continued the fire images in this

Lynnda: I want lose the parts of me that have done their job - such a powerful line

Bev Schofield: my head says no! diet, my tum says yum yum yum, between them my heart groans "oh good grief, not this again"

Lynnda: Am listening to a wonderful book by Irish author Sinead Gleeson - 'Constellations'  Essays about the body - her experience of chronic pain, giving birth, cutting hair, having cancer and this poem reminded me of these - such beautiful embodied writing

Catrice: Thank you, Lynnda.  I must check that out too.  Thanks for sharing this suggestion.

Doreen: I have just remember breakfast. Sorry

Lynnda: I love Aldis. Go in to buy carrots and come home with a cat play apparatus and I don't even have a cat!!

Catrice: Lol!

Giovanna: 😂

Aileen Paterson: yeah I can't go to Aldi's for that reason

Giovanna: that’s the best bit!

Giovanna: “I want to switch off the past” ❤️

Giovanna: “I want to live like today is the only moment I have in this world”

Lynnda: I want to find Patricia, who I am and where I'm going - so powerful xx

Aileen Paterson: beautiful

Catrice: So beautiful.  Heartfelt.

Lynnda: I heard a manifesto too!

Lynnda: A declaration!

Bev Schofield: https: //www.wea.org.uk/

Lynnda: https: //www.weascotland.org.uk/Project/creative-writing

Doreen: I might want to share but I felt that I was too brave last time and my piece didn't fulfil Kenneth's task. Also I wrote for longer than 7 minutes this time, it just kept flowing.

Lynnda: So great! I have just recently re-discovered cycling!!

Lorna Hill: Great thanks Lynnda

Lynnda: https: //www.freewheelnorth.org.uk/led-rides

Giovanna: So much generosity and loving observation of others in there Doreen, just beautiful. I hope you are able to give as much kindness to yourself in some way. ❤️

Karen: So heartfelt and moving. Thankyou for sharing x

Louise: Lovely gentle morning of self care in words and care for others in support - thank you Lorna

Lynnda: I loved the way they are shocked to be outside!!

Catrice: “Salt splashing my lips”. — Loved that line - Lesley!

Giovanna: “I want to just be me again, now” ❤️

Kay: what a wonderful session today   thankyou lorna and thankyou to everyone for sharing so generously   kx

Doreen: 🥰

Giovanna: Huge thanks to Bev, Lorna, and everyone for the generosity, support and inspiration I’ve found here today. 🥰

Sheila Buchanan: Thanks for everyone exposing truth and honesty and commonality of lives.

Doreen: Lovely Aileen. I feel so calm now

Giovanna: “earth scents and green things growing” another for the collection Aileen

Catrice: What an inspiring piece, Aileen.

Lorna Hill: https: //thecaribbeanhousewife.com/you-are-the-medicine/

Doreen: 🥰

Lesley O'Brien: loved that Aileen..'trees beneath my fingertips' and the image of your cat curled up beside you. x

Patricia: Thank you for having me today. I really appreciate everyone and I want you all to know that I feel happy to be part of the amazing ladies. I am moved by everyone's story and you gave me a feeling I thought I lost for a long time. Thank you!

Lynnda: Such a healing poem … Thank you everyone - such an encouraging, uplifting session! I found hope and joy in this time with you all. Came into the room feeling a bit sad today but have cheered up considerably!! Thanks Lorna for holding the space so wonderfully well

Giovanna: It was wonderful to hear you Patricia, I hope to find you hear again

Jo Beth Gray: Thank you lorna and thank you everyone.

Yvonne: Thank you all for sharing - you’ve all given me the courage to share today and that has given me strength  love to all xxx

Jo: Thanks all, especially Bev and Lorna,

Doreen: Thank you

Karen: Wonderful morning. Thank you all so much 💖

Sheila Buchanan: Thanks Lorna and everyone

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Scottish Book Trust,
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

 

Kenneth Steven Water Story 29th Jan 2022

The gentle voice of Kenneth Steven led us through a winter morning. As storms battered the west coast of Scotland, winds of up to 80mph howling about our rooves, we sank ever more contemplatively into the minute detail of life, the simplicity of being.

From his poem "Winter Light" he prompted some timed writing with

writing through the dark

and what astonishing insights came out of the shared writing.

Huge thanks to Ken and our other facilitators will be contributing to the 

Lapidus Scotland Toolkit  

Please feel free to use the wealth of experience shared free on this website if you are ever gathering a group of writers.

You can keep abreast of Ken's publications at his website

kennethsteven.co.uk

The BBC regularly repeats episodes that he has made or contributed to and you can immerse yourself in Scotland (or the arctic!) with that voice any time by searching the BBC Sounds. Unfortunately the 

Something Understood: The Poetry of Healing episode is no longer available but try the link - I'm sure it will probably be available again as they are all regularly repeated.

NB: searching on Google, for "Kenneth Steven BBC" for example, will often yield more comprehensive results than searching on the BBC Sounds app or website - curious!

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And now for some of 

YOUR WRITING:

inspired by Kenneth Steven’s Winter Light

by Kay Ritchie

still white headed

these black headed gulls cause chaos

their Busby Berkeley routines terrorise the swans

through the yellow-framed window 

by Kay Ritchie

through the yellow-framed window

I swipe-wipe memories

as if steam on my bathroom mirror

outside   thrawn

a temperamental storm thrashes branches

all leaves gone

a golden sodden bed    re-made

beneath stark trunks

and yet

grey clouds reveal blue sky &

I am given hope

as snow white snowdrops clump   sway &

promise brighter days

Economy

by Helen Elsley

I notice a shadow on the cauliflower

sat a day too long in my fridge

but longing for soup

I take the knife to trim

away a little grey

a crumble from the floret

then another 

and suddenly I am shaving it smooth

whittling it to a snowball

carving out cream

Forsythia

by Helen Elsley

A straggle of twigs

their spindly tips flick

with the wind

lighter than the brown

background wash 

curving towards me

in reproach

that the autumn work

was not done

years of neglected pruning

made this wispy

bunch of broomstraws

grown tall enough 

to lean over 

and drily tap my window

don’t forget

I am the Easter tree

I will surprise you soon.

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Thanks to Kenneth Steven and to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Catrice: Thank you, Lorna!  💚

Giovanna:😆

Doreen Kelly: 😒

Catrice Greer: Thank you, all.

Lorna: Thank you for a lovely session!

Giovanna: Wonderful morning, huge thanks Bev and Kenneth

Bonbon: Thank you Kenneth, Bev and all…..a wonderful morning x

Jo: Hear hear, Giovanna

Angie: Thank you.  I have found the workshop inspiring, enjoyable and beneficial.

Kay: thankyou so much for a terrific and inspirational workshop  kx

Jo Beth: Thank you!

Giovanna: Where can we find that programme?

Lou: see you later Kenneth on our celebration journey of the simple small focus - so lovely thank you

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Scottish Book Trust,
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

Cap'n Bev Water Story 15th Jan 2022

 

Cap'n Bev's session today took inspiration from the wonderful and ever so droll Eckhart Tolle. We spent two magical hours together exploring the concepts of self identity and our journey in this world. We abandoned ourselves to maritime considerations of tide and knot and wind and trip... 

and look what marvelous writing ensued! 

Our first writing prompt was

moving through the water

and the writers were cast off with a Kay Ryan poem "We're building the ship as we sail it"

The second prompt was

who's listening? listening to whom?

This one was launched by Lucille Clifton's rousing poem "Won't you celebrate with me?"

YOUR WRITING:

Hiraeth  :  River Bridge Time 

                                             

That old stone bridge

over River Cairn  

stands firm; it’s arc

spans the centuries.

Undercurrents carried 

 small dream-thoughts of girl

become adult. Drifting, with

 twigs, branches                                                                   dis-connected

from root source of life;

 in their oak or ash

family tree.

At dusk, the bats will

 flit, like fleeting shards

of phantom memory.

In exile now, she

 has had no standing

 for years, on bridge-span -  

an unspeakable axe:

hurt, hacked, living sap 

again and again. Until snap! /                                             dis //                       connected.  

                                

                           

River and bridge                                                                                     

are not forgotten;            

with splash-past sounds             

by moonlight, sunshine through smirr…      

 They are still loved. 

They once were mine.  

                                                                                                           //Hiraeth: hear owl hoot

                                                                                                            haunt darkening Cairnglen//

                                                                                                             © Margaret Watson 2021

Moving through the water

A story of two Uncles

moving through the water

who thought and fought to save life

throughout the filthy slaughter

of a war.

Uncle Gerry, quiet Navy man

escorted Atlantic convoys

through the deadly cold grey waters,

past the bleak Norwegian shores; aiming to? -

bring aid, to a starving Russian people.

 Fascist ships, the vicious Tirpitz,

 submarines, and air bourne bombs

all aim to sink and kill him and his crew. 

Uncle Ted, quiet scientist,

 expert bomb disposal worker.

Until that Nazi bomb exploded

in his face. Permanently blinded…

Yet, moving through Lake waters

 by boat – with wise hands on oars

he would discern the direction, depths,

 winds, cross- currents – aiming so accurately.  

And navigated this six -year-old niece

up a reed-green beck tributary. 

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Tell me now please, what is your aim, if any – 

moving through the water?                                                                ©Margaret Watson 2022  

Moving through the water

by Doreen Kelly

Have you any idea the effort it takes to appear competent in the water?

Most of the time I am frantically doggy paddling to keep up with the party boat, the "normal" people are on.

Oh the relief when the boat stops in a harbour. It is lifesaving because I can turn onto my back, float and conserve energy. The effort it would take to climb on board is not worth it. I will only fall overboard again when the boat leaves harbour. 

At least in the water I am supported and if I stay away from the boat I am less likely to be buffeted around too much.

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Links that cropped up today

Doreen Kelly's book "Gems from a Creative Mind" (just search for that) is now available on ebay

Eckhart Tolle - many talks available on youtube

Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans?

Angie's whisky competition expired on the 17th, sorry! But here's her

performance on Standard Habbie (second half)

Forugh Farrokhzad - I discovered this Iranian poet on BBC this week and can honestly say I feel changed by it! Listen here

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Session chat... in case you missed some comments.

Doreen: link to book (see note above) 

Mary: Hi everyone. can't get sound. Happy New Year

Aileen: Hi Mary if you try leaving the meeting and rejoining that might work

Catrice: Bev, when you have a chance would you mind sharing his name in an email or the link to his Ted Talk, please? I’d love to look him up and check out the Ted Talk! Sounds Amazing!  Thank you. 

Catrice: Great intro, Bev.  Thank you. 💜

Bev: Moving through the water

Angie: https://www.masterofmalt.com/blog/post/burns-night-poetry-competition-2022-win-glengoyne-21-year-old.aspx

Jo: thanks all, bye all xx

Catrice: Take care Jo.  See you again soon.

Angie: Is it ok if I post the link of a poem that I was commissioned to write for The Loud Poets?  Its in the Standard Habbie form.

Aileen: I want to see it Angie

Bev: please Angie!

Angie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ezHTgxYCl4

Bev: who's listening, listening to whom

Doreen Kelly: I would like to hear from the marginalised. Those thrown out of society. Perhaps those cold and hungry on the street. However I am a scaredy cat and would need to feel safe in order to hear. In e to hear the voice of My God and speak with their authority in order to be heard.

Angie: That was a fabulous session.  It has given me a lot to think about.  What a wonderfully, warm and encouraging crowd have attended today.  The poetry has been amazing.  xx

Doreen: Thank you everyone

Catrice: Thank you, Bev.  Truly incredible session.

Karen: Thankyou. I so needed that. Bless you all💕

Kath: Lovely to see all the cheerful familiar faces, and lovely introduction, Bev, but I am falling asleep here with temp at 34

so I'm sure I'm not going to manage to write. Wanted to get a taste of the sessions though, so hopefully will be back for more if temps begin to drop again. Thanks for the invite.

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Scottish Book Trust,
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

JanFeb 2022 Special Water Story sessions

Lapidus Scotland, in association with Scottish Book Trust, is delighted to offer 4 special Water Story sessions to tide us over to the spring. Sessions are free but filling fast; if you'd like to join us for any or all please contact Bev at

readbevs@gmail.com

Saturday Zoom sessions 1000-1200 am

15th January ~ Cap’n Bev

29th January ~ Kenneth Steven

12th February ~ Lorna Hill

26th February ~ Noren Haq 

Cap'n Bev     15Jan

you know me... or you think you do... as my own guest I'll be sharing more than my epaulets in this session! Taking care of writers in Water Story sessions or passengers on Loch Lomond, even the Forth & Clyde Canal... it's all to do with story.

Kenneth Steven     29Jan

Kenneth Steven is first and foremost a poet, though also very much a Scottish novelist and children’s writer too. He’s worked as reader and writer in residence in Aberdeen where he was very much involved in supporting and encouraging budding authors. He held regular surgeries to offer feedback on creative work.

Lorna Hill     12Feb

Lorna Hill is a writer, researcher and project facilitator. She is particularly interested in creativity for health and well-being and runs shared reading and creative writing sessions to reduce social isolation and build confidence. She has a PhD in Creative Writing, a COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills, Diplomas in Life Coaching and Journal Therapy and CPD training with Luminate and Artful Minds (training in dementia-focused practice), Glasgow Women’s Library, Lapidus International and Scottish Women’s Aid. Lorna is also an Instructor in First Aid for Mental Health.

Noren Haq     26Feb

Noren Haq has an MA in English Literature and a PGDE in secondary education. She writes plays, short stories, flash fiction and poetry. 

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Scottish Book Trust,
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

Loch Lomond: 8th October 2021

 

Huge thanks to Cruise Loch Lomond for hosting our Water Story today. On a cruise between Tarbet and Inversnaid we invoked the area's inhabitants over a span of 5000 years and explored the fascinating geological implications of weather changes here at the Highland Boundary Fault Line over the past 15,000 years.

Oor Angie looking stunning!

Perfect writing cabin on the Lomond Princess

Cap'n Bev and Able Seadog Richie

The Arklet Falls at Inversnaid in full spate

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

Glasgow to Kirkie on the Forth & Clyde Canal!

Take a trip on the Forth & Clyde... 

... click these thumbnails to watch videos

All thanks to Navvies' Barge - what a treat to be back on the canal (11th September) on the rumbling old barge but this time with Sean and Ania and the helm so I was, quite simply, a passenger! 

COVID challenges struck as 4 the carefully selected crew of just 10 Water Story veterans were tripped at the post with coughs, track-n-trace and one completely impossible journey from Inverness - so sorry your taxi didn't turn up May! But as seems to be the way of Water Story, the sun shone... here's Pat's account:

"To those who didn't make it, commiserations; we missed you all.  Unlike the forecast, the weather was fine and after a cloudy start the sun shone most of the time.  It was lovely to be back on Peccadillo (she will always be that to us) after a long absence, lovely to see the heron which joined us on various stages of the journey, the baby moor hens and all the cheery Glasgow folk waving from the tow path.  We noted that the canal needs something to sieve off the green weed that chokes the surface in places, and a visit from a big bottle-scooper; it seems the makers of Irn Bru and the monks of Buckfast Abbey have been having a bumper year. Maybe it will all be tidied up in time for the big climate gathering.

Bev, usually at the wheel, was able to join in, as Ania and Sean drove the barge, which was a bonus for us all. We did a fair amount of writing, but for the final hour just sat in the prow chatting and taking in the rays and relaxing.  Thanks to Bev for organising the trip, and here's hoping we can all meet again soon.

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).

Loch Lomond with Kenneth Steven on 6th June 2021

This day exceeded all our expectations there's nothing more to be said but just shown

STORIES of the day:

This New World We Find Ourselves In

by Aileen Paterson

Light and shadow on the hills, the trees green and abundant. The water lapping the boat as we course through it, making our way out into the world once more with all the burden of the last year still to shed. It has entered our bones. It has tethered us to spaces that are too small to contain us. Spaces we have had to shrink to fit, to rein in our dreams and our longings.

Now released, my dreams expand to fill the sky. They permeate the deep water of the loch, stretch ahead of me to Inversnaid. They fly over the tops of the mountains. They run with the deer, and climb over stony paths with the goats.

The boat carries us away from the hard edges of our shrunken world, the solitude that has crushed us. Away from a world where we dare not even voice our longings. Dark clouds chase us, but ahead there is blue sky and hope. The flow of water over stones, the rush of the waterfall. Damp moss and small leaves growing from the bark of the tree leaning over the water. Rhododendrons pink and purple and ferns growing from rocks. White froth and bubbles on the river, the touch of bark under my fingers, connecting me to the earth, the rocks, the sky.

The engine stops and we drift for a while, sunlight glinting off the water. Gentle ripples against the boat, a soft breeze as the sun comes out. The distant hum of traffic. I want to stay here, with the water protecting me from the harshness of the outside world, from too much control. What shards of longing might we reclaim as we embark on the rest of our lives? The sun on my face and somewhere the birds are singing. What new roads are forming beneath our feet?

Here, there’s an endless conversation between hills and sky, the eagles circling above, finding gaps in the clouds to make dark shapes against the bluest sky.

Sunlight and shadows moving on the hills. Lines etched in the rocks like an ancient language I am yet to learn, but felt when I pressed my hand against the mossy bark of the tree, when I listened to the river. The land telling its story The flow of life unsuppressed by any lockdown. Stories flow through me too, demand to be told. They emerge as marks on a page, words that form on my lips. Life exerting itself, creating spells to shape this new world we find ourselves in.

Some Haikus

by Debbie Macrae

golden eagles soar

sky dancing above the Loch

bluebells on the brae

submerged in nature

drenched in words: Waterstory

takes us to the Loch

The dark, deep, dangerous  loch

by John Young

The dark, deep, dangerous  loch; what lives beneath your glassy calm veneer?

Diving into your cold water and screaming in ecstatic shock ;feeling alive at last.

Tethered to our home harbours for what seems like an eternity, to visualise  the broccoli   dark clumps of trees.

Gliding effortlessly on our water carriage of words,

The silence  only broken by birds chirping and motorcycles  booming. 

Pylons blight the

Postcard, picture, perfect scene; the eagle soaring over ben lomond majestic, outdoors again;  zoom is a fading dream.

The trees swirl effortlessly in the cool summer simmering Scotchweegia sun.

Still the Engines

by Cap'n Bev

I cut the engine.

Silence enfolds our raft of writers 

in a cocoon of other worldliness. 

Even the hum of traffic on a distant road 

serves only to turn us slow on our spindle of still 

between the high banks of the loch. 

Like my writers I blink long and slow under tilted lids,

one ear cocked skyward for the same sounds heard by 

highlander and Hopkins, Wordsworth and Scott… Inversnaid. 

Yet my calm is short lived.

The captain who cuts engines mid-loch ever frets 

that the reassuring thump 

may never start up again.

Thanks to you all ...

... for your heartening feedback as always!

Sally: A wonderful day, thank you, thank you. Ruth and I so enjoyed it. I was so overwhelmed by the beauty,  my pulsing brain could not put pen to paper, but the beauty, Bev, was breathtaking, along with remeeting Kenneth.

Di: Thanks for a great day.

Debbie: Waterstory on Loch Lomond simply offers an entirely different dimension, surrounded by stunning inspirational scenery, encouraged by a wonderful guest writer in Kenneth Steven.

Thank you so much Bev. Kenneth was delightful and insightful!

Caroline: Thank you so much... I absolutely loved the experience. There was so much to see, hear and feel before during and after the sail.  Senses were alight which transferred onto the page. Your knowledge and sharing of both the environment and history were second to none.

Aileen: Thank you Captain Bev and all who made this amazing trip possible. After being stuck in a small flat with no outdoor space for most of the last year and a bit, I desperately needed this trip, Kenneth Steven was inspiring and nurturing and we were very well looked after by all the crew. I really hope more trips will be possible as we all try and recover our physical and mental wellbeing, this is so needed.

Mary: Thank you so much for yet another wonderful day out... It was lovely to see everyone again.

Diana Davies painted this from Sheila's photo - fabulous!

This was the planning part>>>>

At last Water Story writers we are getting back out on the boats! With Glasgow shifting to a Tier 2 on Saturday 6th June we're hoping all will feel comfortable coming out. Careful Covid guidelines will still be in place and careful cognisance of government guidelines will always be applied to Water Story events. Here are some helpful links with personal testing advice and rules for "therapeutic" groups that have been followed during the planning this particular event.

Cruise Loch Lomond are extending a warm welcome to Water Story - please be reassured that they have always implemented rigorous sanitisation procedures (we will go through this on the pier) and careful track and trace but have not, as yet, had to implement isolation via track and trace.

We are delighted to welcome

Kenneth Steven

as our guest author for the day (thanks to Lapidus Scotland)

I've asked him to bring some copies of his second edition of "Iona" just out - bring your purse if you'd like your very own signed copy

Schedule for the Day

1000 Gather on Tarbet pier (G83 7DE); arm yourself with an outstanding coffee from the bothy

1015 board our vessel and meet Kenneth Steven for your first reading and introduction

1045 set sail for Inversnaid with safety talk from Cap'n Bev

1100 reading and prompt from Kenneth en route

1115 arrive Inversnaid and disembark for short walk - 30 minutes

1145 back on board for more from Kenneth and a gentle tour of the north of the loch

1230 moor up at Tarbet and share writing

1315 farewell and finish

 

Thanks to funders

Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).