being and becoming in the world
To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: Ella Eyre – Rain in heaven ft. BBC Concert Orchestra (Radio 2 Piano Room) Film … Continue reading I’d never seen so much life in a giggle
He magically reached out.
A few images from a lovely weekend in London.
This is from the Daily Record, 9 April 1965. It is about a ‘new group’ called The WHO, touring Scotland. This is a bit before my time as I was … Continue reading ‘Peter called it Girnock’
Compiled from the Aberdeen Weekly, first few days of 1900.
In Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’ by Evelyn Waugh, the prison Governor asks ‘D.4.12’ [Paul Pennyfeather]: ‘I wonder whether you have narcissistic tendencies? Did you lead … Continue reading Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’
David Rioch Glen, 1909-1978. Sadly, I never met Davie [Davy] Glen but I heard some wonderful tales about him when I was researching the history of Jock’s Road, Glen Doll. … Continue reading A friend to friendship itself: Davie Glen
1986: Peter Gordon, a second year Medical Student, University of Aberdeen. The motto for the university is Initium sapientiae timor Domini [The beginning of wisdom]: