Scottish Island Mum hits the headlines

In January I began writing a daily blog for a year about my life on Arran called Scottish Island Mum. I had no idea where it would take me, and could never had anticipated that six months later my little blog would be the subject of a full page spread on the Sunday Post newspaper. When an email popped into my inbox from a journalist with the paper I was a little sceptical but there followed a whirlwind of emails and phone calls back and forth and by the following Sunday the story was in print. The fact that I was actually in Portsmouth that week didn’t faze the journalist, and a photographer was booked to take my picture down there. This was then photoshopped out and put on a photo of the island!

Scottish Island Mum has been a truly humbling project and it has attracted a huge following. In just six months it has received over 20,000 page views and has readers in every continent in the world. It continues to grow and develop daily and I am about to leave for the Isle of Eigg on a writing commission to uncover what is truly unique about that island. Where will this all go next?

www.scottishislandmum.blogspot.co.uk