Terry Marsh
The glen is lonely
A
brief foray to Shetland
at the end of January to
experience Up Helly Aa,
has left Terry Marsh longing to
go back. But it will have to wait.
His love affair with Shetland
and Orkney has not abated
since he penned The Magic of
the Scottish Islands, illustrated
by Jon Sparks. But then his love
for all the other Scottish islands
hasn’t diminished either.
So, it’s back to Mull we go
in search of otters and eagles,
but, given the location of our
cottage, deep in Glen Fossa,
he’ll be hoping for some
starry, starry nights, too. This
is where he was based when
he wrote Walking on the Isle of
Mull, a place so remote that,
to paraphrase Lillian Beckwith,
‘even the cows in the glen is
lonely’.