Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.
Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels
Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.
I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed. '
I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.