Then it’s years later . . .
This was my desk when I was a medical student in Aberdeen, sometime around 1990. I used to draw musical artists from album covers. Here is Annie Lennox and David … Continue reading Then it’s years later . . .
Category: Two cultures
Light and his life had become inseparable
This film is based on a Radio Scotland interview with Brian May and Professor Roger Taylor on the 15 August 2018. The host was Grant Stott. Taylor and May have … Continue reading Light and his life had become inseparable
Gregory’s Pillar
It is understood that the Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews, James Gregory, had this pillar erected on a hill about a mile south of the University library. … Continue reading Gregory’s Pillar
“The Great, Tall, Little, Small, and Insignificant”
I first came across Albert Ernest Pickard (1874-1964) after visiting Bannockburn House: a house with an ancient history, that not so long ago, was owned by him. When I first … Continue reading “The Great, Tall, Little, Small, and Insignificant”
