being and becoming in the world
TIPPERLINN SUNSHINE. A cluster of small cottages women handloom weavers Tipperlinn, with a ‘reputation’ for sunshine, and the ‘best people’ in Edinburgh. RATIONAL + PRACTICAL. The sunny cottages replaced by … Continue reading Aietandoruis poems [part II]
Some of the newspaper headlines about Granville Low Paterson (1921- 2004). Granville spent his formative years in Glenglass on the farm of Balnarge. It is likely that Granville’s father was … Continue reading Balnarge, Glenglass
It was strange being dead. I died three times [perhaps more] BEN CRUACAN [I was not ‘Rough Proof’] ALDBAR GLEN [Tainted Love] RUICHLACHRIE [‘a little bit of activity’] As an … Continue reading Rough proof
Secret Shape of Time It is early morning, Granny’s kettle whistles she winds the grandfather clock. It is lunchtime, Bonaly Primary School I am ‘backward’, so I am told Summertime, … Continue reading Difficult to cure
I have been researching the extraordinary life of Granville Lowe Paterson [1921-2004]. He was a weel kent Inverness ‘worthy’. His formative years were spent in Glenglass. His home, Balnarge. Much … Continue reading A glacier-strewn boulder in Glenglass
It took me almost a whole day to find SPEEDY, an auld Opel Olympia, rusting in a forest in the Cairngorms. I feel that it is right that I do … Continue reading S P E E D Y
This post seeks to celebrate the short life of John Dudley Sandeman, who died aged 19 years, January 1960. Oban Times, 9th January 1960: The father of John Dudley Sandeman … Continue reading John Dudley Sandeman
When we last met you were young men, really just boys – certified or not – Designated ‘insane’. I was your visiting doctor In Gaberston house. Yesterday, I met you … Continue reading Gaberston boys