being and becoming in the world
22 March 2018: Two years to the day, from the release of the outcome of the public consultation on my petition, I returned to the Scottish Parliament to make a … Continue reading Open your ears, listen, let the people petition and be heard
The Sunday Post, 26 November 2023, by Marion Scott. Health campaigners are accusing NHS officials of failing to comply with rules over the investigation of hundreds of serious incidents which … Continue reading Campaigner: NHS patient safety reforms are ‘a disaster’
Rab Wilson, one of the five recipients of the 2023 Fletcher of Saltoun Awards.
Glenbardy: my hairt fair beats for Sian Carmichael: where Sandy magically reached out to me Asloss: together with Rab, a friend of Liberty Random street: where Richard’s stories moved me … Continue reading LOST
On the night before Sian’s mother died we were talking with her about all sorts of stuff. I brought into the conversation Catherine Heymans who had recently been appointed as … Continue reading ‘A vast telescope will create a movie of the universe’
On the second Monday of May 2021, my guid friend Rab Wilson, poet and lad o’pairts, took me to the old abandoned farmhoose of Cormilligan a small sheep farm in … Continue reading The writing on the waas o devotion
On Monday, my friend, the poet Rab Wilson, took me to Glenarlie Brig: Rab drew my attention to this plaque on the side wall of the brig: A dire warning … Continue reading “As a warning to disobedient youth of future generations”
Whigham Inn, Sanquhar [also known as Queensberry Arms Hotel] has become a ‘Building at Risk‘. In ‘A Very Parochial Anthology’ by T. A. Johnston the following verse by Rabbie Burns is … Continue reading Whigham Inn