St Andrews
My wife had two maiden ‘aunts’ who kept a small private hotel in St Andrews and we spent two or three holidays there. A damp, driech place but with golf courses. I played them all, […]
My wife had two maiden ‘aunts’ who kept a small private hotel in St Andrews and we spent two or three holidays there. A damp, driech place but with golf courses. I played them all, […]
Aberdeen we lived in for several years. It was before the oil rigs and it was a pleasant city, much like Largs, or Cape Town or Perth in Australia. Anyway, what I wanted to tell […]
The Celts were everywhere. Did their trumpets blow down the walls of Jericho?
Sometimes one becomes invisible to those around one and wonderrs how that experience has inspired writers.
Granny Clarke and the Banshee
I’ve been watching the World Cup Rugby. I love it, never played so sometimes the referees seem to be blind but then the referees who were in charge of our school football needed better glasses. […]
I don’t remember what triggered the memory but my pal and I, from Scotland, were staying with my Irish Granny and went to see a Bob Hope film, expecting it to be funny. It was […]
This Leprechaun thing started because people asked how I found story ideas but it has grown into how I plan a story and how things just pop up when I start the idea rolling, for […]
I’m trying to get something about Flower Shows, not the Chelsea Flower Show but one in Miss Kirkhope’s village of Cairndhu, down on paper but the Leprechaun keep sidling in. I was watching a documentary […]
The only thing I ever really learned on those management courses was that ‘a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still but they did give me a fund of stories. On […]