all our times
This short film shares footage from a recent adventure in Perthshire and Argyll: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Credit: [Don’t Fear] The … Continue reading all our times
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BEN CRUACHAN [Search for a Boy]
[16 January 1940] ‘Golden eagle comes to Oban’ before soaring off in the direction of Ben Cruachan. [12 February 1940] ‘Missing from Oban’ since February 10th ‘a rather shy boy … Continue reading BEN CRUACHAN [Search for a Boy]
BLUE
a child, I painted my bedroom BLUE scribed, in giant capitalised letters, ‘PERFECT BLUE’. My first shaver, was BLUE. My first car, was BLUE. My first girlfriend, from the, ‘BLUE … Continue reading BLUE
Colour was not affordable.
COLOUR WAS NOT AFFORDABLE My father collected televisions – black & white, second-hand, rarely working. [chance INTERLUDE] An advert in an old P & J: RENT or BUY, From 42 … Continue reading Colour was not affordable.
BOLERO
There are many things to be said about e m o t i o n s – the first is that they fill the world with m e a n … Continue reading BOLERO
ALOYSIUS
ALOYSIUS ursine familiar clutched by an effete ‘transitional object’ from the ‘IDEAL TOY COMPANY’. Cut-glass and full of time, meet you at the statue in an hour.
Recognise the beauty
D A L C H I O R L I C H Today, I crossed the bridge that you set out on as December 1897 closed. Changes have taken place … Continue reading Recognise the beauty
Friends called her Art
Towards the end of last year I ventured to SEEFEW. I did so in remembrance of Elizabeth Hall, who died there a month short of her 16th birthday: To watch a … Continue reading Friends called her Art
Winding the Clock
It was seven-twenty when I finished winding the clock – the pendulum clock, in the carved wooden case in the living room. I was winding the clock when I learned … Continue reading Winding the Clock