Freelance Ranger

The list of what she runs reads like a good childhood - pond dipping, rockpooling, den building, campfire cooking, environmental art, mud walks - and then there is the stargazing, because this is the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park and the sky here is among the darkest in Britain. She works across Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire and with the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere, and the days are made to order rather than sold off a shelf, so what you get depends on what you ask for and what the tide and the weather are doing.