being and becoming in the world
Alexander McCall Smith introducing me to Richard, Duke of Buccleuch at the Borders Book Festival on Saturday 15th June 2019: Keepsake: To play this short film please click here or … Continue reading Alexander McCall Smith introducing me . . .
Quote: From the Herald, 6 January 2024 Photograph: Peter Scott-Gordon opposite Abbotsford writing in his commonplace book, Saturday 15 June 2019
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
As far as I can establish there is no surviving painting of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre. He died in 1814, several decades before the science of photography. John Ramsay was … Continue reading He was an eccentric, happiest at home in his garden
On the 4th September, at 21 Island Street, Galashiels, a gardener died. This was his garden: Today, the gardener’s home is an empty Bakers Shop. Why might you be interested … Continue reading 21 Island Street
In the original Ordnance Survey book for the parish of Kilmany, Fife, is the following entry: [situation] About 7/8 of a mile S.E. [South East] of the Village of Gauldry. … Continue reading Ghoul’s Den
John Wilson (1800–1849) was a Scottish singer born in Edinburgh’s Canongate. His family did well enough to move to the new town. His family moved to 4 South Princes Street, … Continue reading Scottish vocalist
I was born in the winter of 1967. This Winter 1967 edition of the Scottish Opera Magazine contained an article on Walter Scott as well as articles on the Scottish … Continue reading Winter 1967