being and becoming in the world
Last night we were fortunate to be in the audience listening to Alexander McCall Smith being interviewed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. What a magical storyteller McCall Smith is. … Continue reading An hour with Alexander McCall Smith
I recently read ‘Letters to Camondo’ by Edmund De Waal. In Exploring this Parisian museum it shares writing at it’s most beautiful: I was delighted to read that like Montaigne, … Continue reading ‘The shape of my library is round’
I hate to think of empty libraries. The above photograph is of the ‘NON-FICTION’ section of what was once Springburn Library, Glasgow. At the time this photograph was taken this … Continue reading Empty libraries
A special person has given me the opportunity to hear a Borders fairm-toun sing. I am going to take my mum with me as the singing begins on the day … Continue reading the fairm-toun sang