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White Shirt: An autobiography

I’d like to tell you that I was woven from the finest, softest strands of pure white cotton, grown in … More

Calcutta, Fashion, Relationship, Short story, Tennessee

It shall pass

He looked out west over the sea. Where he was used to gilded opulence and vistas thronged with sycophancy, here … More

Environment, History, Humanity, Island, Leadership, Life, Places, Politics, Writing

The Rope and the Net

Fixing up fishing nets distracts from the impatience of the world but the patterns can’t be escaped from. For five … More

Environment, Fishing, Old vs new, Places, Tradition, Ways of life

I’m not racist

I’m not racist but when I was eleven years old, I wanted to go go karting for my birthday. I … More

Accountable, Childhood, Racism, Responsibility

Memory of a not so free festival

June 1970 I missed my last week at school due to some planning, friends and I had been making for … More

Bath 1970, Festivals, Hitching, Leaving school, Travel, Youth, Zappa

A Highland boy and Glasgow girls

In the twilight of his life, Donald Sutherland compiled his memoirs. Published in the 1960s, entitled ‘Highland Childhood’, it recalled … More

Argyll, Environment, Glasgow Girls, GND, Green New Deal, Green New Deal UK, Highland hospitality, Oban, Scotland, Scottish highlands, Travel

The rumble in the stumble

Watch those that revise history to suit their notions of the day. The predicament of an act of union signed … More

Brexit, Britain, Europe, Global, One World, Poetry, Scotland

Waving to Tories on the B709

I drove on the hairpin roads by Innerleithen on Sunday, narrow enough that they were although not quite single track. … More

Common Courtesy, Driving, General Election, Tory

Helin’ air to heal Londoners

VisitScotland target Londoners for wellness breaks, but is Scotland’s tourism ready to morph again?

Environment, London, Mindfulness, Scotland, Short break, Tourism, Travel, Visit Scotland, Wellness

Do good

And so you get back into Edinburgh. You take a nap on South Clerk Street as the readiness of the … More

Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer

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