being and becoming in the world
In introducing this book – about one of the brightest comets ever to pass by planet earth – the author Thomas Hockey, Professor of Astronomy, shares the origins of his … Continue reading “I’m going to discover something”
When I first came across this art work by Roderick Buchanan my thoughts returned to my son Andrew. The TATE provide this biography: Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) is a Scottish … Continue reading A. C. Milan shirts
The day that Andrew was born I bought him a MERRYTHOUGHT teddy bear. We named this teddy ‘HALE BOPP’ as this comet was bright in the night sky as our … Continue reading MERRYTHOUGHT
It has taken Scotland’s national football team (men) 22 years to qualify for a major international football tournament. This film begins on the 10 June 1998 with Scotland playing Brazil … Continue reading 22 years
In 1874, Robert Louis Stevenson and his father, inscribed their initials and a symbol of the rising sun into a tree in the corner of the garden surrounding Swanston Cottage: … Continue reading Arborglyphs
On Monday afternoon I had a walk up the hill and was sad to find a ‘TO LET’ notice outside the Italian restaurant ‘Vecchia Bologna’. It was here that we … Continue reading Vecchia Bologna
Tam o’Shanter: A recital by Andrew R. Gordon, Burns Nicht 2008.
Last week, the Scotsman featured ‘In Gordon Street’ as its ‘poem of the week’. This poem by Gerry Cambridge reminded me of a night, when with my son Andrew, we … Continue reading ‘In Gordon Street’