I’ve seen it!
So football (soccer) is with us this week-end and we can welcome the commentators back to our screens, a joy, if like me, you’d have gone to a match with friends who share the enjoyment […]
So football (soccer) is with us this week-end and we can welcome the commentators back to our screens, a joy, if like me, you’d have gone to a match with friends who share the enjoyment […]
It seems wrong to write about the spoiled brat of the Royal Family when there is so much real tragedy and death around the globe. Harry lost his mother in a car crash and I […]
We all, including the BBC, think of the recent flocking to the seaside as starting with the Victorians and the railways but, according to the Daily Telegraph, recent work, particularly by Anton Wroblewski of the […]
The origins of Arthur’s round table
I’ve posted another short story about a couple being kept apart by family neds and prejudice. It’s a theme I find compelling as so many of my age group had to move to find work […]
The Show Might Go On is on its way to Birlinn for their consideration, or if you prefer, I have invited a publisher to print my book. While they are thinking it over, I’m taking […]
The Polish Princess risks much to wed James III
I write about villages because I was brought up in one where most of the people were related – even if it was only through drink, as one of the local worthies commented. He also […]
It was only when I learned that Roy of the Ordinance Survey had been at my old school, Lanark Grammar, that I really became interested in the Highlands and the Jacobites. Of course, Roy came […]
Bees in my Bonnet is not about bees, although I have a great sympathy for their current problems with insecticides, but a collection of short stories, some are historical, but instead of hiding them away, […]