being and becoming in the world
In one of last Sunday’s papers, I read with interest about a: 4th October 2026, Scotland on Sunday: In this feature article, David Harrower, the playwright of a new stage … Continue reading ‘Of course you want someone like Miss Jean Brodie in your life’
The above image is one of the photographs of Robert Reinhardt in the Trove archive. Like me, Robert visited churchyards and always had his camera with him. The photograph frames … Continue reading IN
Source: Trove archive Further credit: Ian McEwan
Last month, when staying in Dordogne, our holiday home was close to the church of Saint-Martin de Bannes. One morning, just before dawn, I visited this church and was greeted … Continue reading The church of Saint-Martin de Bannes
I was shocked when I came across this image in the Trove archive. I wondered how the tombstones had become so broken, scattered and neglected? The worn inscription on a … Continue reading Self-Preservation: a Medical Treatise
This tombstone has no inscription of who it recalls, but given the symbols above the motto, it must have been to remember a gardener. Trove:
Earlier this summer I visited Bonskeid to remember Robert Fowler Barbour who died in infancy. He was the first of the family to be buried in the [private] Bonskeid burial … Continue reading ‘Sympathy, fellow feeling . . .’
The above photograph is of the original Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. In 1936 a new hospital was opened at Foresterhill and the old hospital became known as Woolmanhill. I did some … Continue reading ‘a valuable acquisition’