Weather Forecast: 1959
Brian Meek is the weather presenter [TROVE archive]
Category: This is Not yesterday
Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
a televisual poem
A ‘televisual poem‘ that asks: can you remember what it is like to see the world from a child’s point of view? To play this televisual poem please click here … Continue reading a televisual poem
Firrhill Secondary School
From 1979 to 1985 I attended Firrhill Secondary School in Edinburgh. Despite being considered a ‘backward learner’ and being shy, I was both happy and successful at this large comprehensive … Continue reading Firrhill Secondary School
Faintly heard
A visual representation of a passage of the 2026 BBC Prog Rock Proms
It was an expressive silence
One of my next poems will be on Dickson’s Close, Edinburgh. It will be narrated by a paperboy [when I was young I used to deliver the Edinburgh Evening News].What … Continue reading It was an expressive silence
Garrick farm
I have a real saft spot for Braco, as it was here, in the old Inn that my grandfather took us for Sunday roasts. This was back in the early … Continue reading Garrick farm
I have never claimed to be a revolutionary
To play this short film please click here or on the image above, Music credit: ‘On Your Own Again’ by Scott Walker
Midsocket
Between 1997 and 1990, as a medical student, I lived at 44 Midstocket Road, Aberdeen. My Uncle John had helped me with the mortgage.