Dawn Along The River
No blog piece today, it still needs a bit of work and I haven’t had time to polish as I would like. Instead, here are a few photos from Friday the 2nd of October, when I decided to take my…
Tag dog walking
Clothes Make the Man?
I recently had an odd experience whilst sorting through most of the clothing I’ve kept in storage these last few years. It was peculiar, melancholic,* unsettling and, occasionally, just downright weird. Each t-shirt, each pair of jeans, even underwear —…
Portentous Day! Here’s to the future.
Spring! It has indeed arrived, the sun has risen, hidden behind sister moon, reappeared bravely to warm us, then hidden once more behind rain and wind and cloud. Then appeared again. Such is the nature of Scottish weather, all seasons…
East To Wick
Days Off
Today I am having a “day off”. This is not the same as a day off, which is an entirely different kettle of fish. A “day off” involves little work on my fiction. Instead I channel my creative energy (and…
The Merry Dancers, February 2014
These photos do not do the display justice. It was the best I have seen in over twenty years. In fact I think it was even better than the last major display I saw in 1992, when I lived in…
The Old Lifeboat Shed, with Northern Lights, Wick, Scotland
This was taken on Sunday the 23rd of February. The Northern Lights, or Merry Dancers — as I grew up knowing them — were out on Orlando’s walk. The lights of Wick interfere with the full majesty of the Aurora,…