Jane Jack
Source: Trove archive Further credit: Ian McEwan
Category: Time passes
Time passes. Listen. Time passes: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
‘Rome was new and very old’
I came across this line in ‘Like a Cat Loves a Bird’ by James Bailey. When I read, I record marginalia of anything that makes me feel. These days my … Continue reading ‘Rome was new and very old’
Tivoli Picture House, Gorgie
On the site of the former Tivoli Picture House [pictured above] a New Tivoli Picture House was built. The new cinema opened on the 1st January 1934. It is a … Continue reading Tivoli Picture House, Gorgie
The clock ticked. Her eye twitched. Deep breath. Another pill.
I have read much of the work by Muriel Spark. Her ‘Sparkian’ approach is one that I both love and admire. Recently, I read an account of her life and … Continue reading The clock ticked. Her eye twitched. Deep breath. Another pill.
Washday
This historic image from Trove of a gateway to Menstrie castle covered in clothes drying, reminded me of the opening chapter of The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald:
Dreghorn castle
I came across this photograph of Dreghorn castle in the Trove archive. In the decade before my birth, Dreghorn castle was erased from the landscape. In the 1980s I delivered … Continue reading Dreghorn castle
The place of living and losing we occupy
Last month when in the Dordogne with family, we noticed the above closed and overgrown gateway on the road to the town of Couze et Saint Front. It was just … Continue reading The place of living and losing we occupy
focus on the unseen and the overlooked
Logie Churchyard, Wednesday evening.