being and becoming in the world
The Scotsman, 12 August 2025, shared this sad news: Our son Andrew spent a year teaching in Guyana [2015-2016] as a volunteer for Project Trust. I made this film for … Continue reading Project Trust: 50 years of charity work
The Scotsman, 14 May 202 Craig Easton: For a previous hole ousia post on Barnhill please click here.
In the summer of 2019, I read ‘Barnhill: a Novel’ by Norman Bissell: a partly fictional account of George Orwell’s last few years and his time on Jura. At Barnhill … Continue reading ‘This ungetatable place’
Last week, when exploring Kelvingrove Art Gallery with my wife Sian, this painting stopped me in my tracks: Two figures at a fence, Islay, 1904 by John Quinton Pringle. John … Continue reading Optician-Artist
Scotsman editorial, 31 August 2023.
A short film about the small, inter-tidal, Hebridean island of Vallay. Quality Tableware:To play this short film please click here or on the image above. My thanks to Fraser MacDonald … Continue reading Quality tableware
A film about Eilean Subhainn one of numerous islands in o, Scotland. On Eilean Subhainn there is a 4 acre loch, and in this loch is a tiny island. This … Continue reading A loch in an island in a loch
This short film is based on the photography of St Kilda by Robert Atkinson. Robert Atkinson’s visits to St Kilda were interrupted by a world war. The School of Scottish … Continue reading ‘Is our island told in books?’