Monkeys and membranes
The latest scientific discovery that opens new frontiers is the finding that, because of a membrane, it is only we, Homo sapiens, no other primates, who can speak properly. (My friend asked if there was […]
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What’s new in Napoli
It seems the politicians of Naples want to make the same mistake they made in Glasgow. The Neapolitans want to forbid the hanging of washing on lines that stretch across the street, not to please […]
Of terrapins and goats
I was saying to a friend of mine that, with the growing number of Covid cases and the heat, I have been keeping more to myself and reading the papers to provide some human amusement. […]
Bees in my Bonnet / Character Development / Sadie's Boy / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
Sleepy Time
A week or so ago, I saw a report that scientists had carried out experiments to determine the ideal number of hours of sleep an adult Homo Sapien needed each day. All very well, you […]
A not as old as that Birthday
And is this now my eighty-seventh year, Or has some time warp come to interfere, And I am sixty-two, or even thirty-five, Still acute and very much alive? When did I sleep and fail to […]
Bees in my Bonnet / Books / Bubbles in the Cauldron / Character Development / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Sullatober Dalton
Like a Highland Bull
Held a Meet the Authors morning at the local library with my friend Val Hughes, who writes childrens’ stories, paints and writes poetry, a busy lady who always has time for others. It wasn’t as […]
Bees in my Bonnet / Books / Character Development / Short Story / Stuarts / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
Talking about the Stuarts
What I want to do next is to finish the Fergus Findlay, Drover trilogy, then follow Miss Kirkwood through to her retirement and becoming the Cairndhu matriarch. It takes Peggy through the lean thirties and […]
Superteen and the Cat Girl
I’ve added a short story to the pages. The story won a third prize in the Writers’ Forum magazine so I’m quite pleased with it. I have also had printed, through Kindle, three novels; What […]
Apathetic
I read recently that winning the battle at Prestonpans gave the Jacobites military control of Scotland. In other words, 5000 Highlanders could dictate to the whole of Scotland on pain of being slaughtered and their […]
Thistledown
I’m closing in on the Jacobites but had to stop to finish the rewrite and publishing of Thistledown, a novel set in the Highlands of Scotland in the years just after Waterloo. I was first […]
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Tagged Anatomy, Human origins, Primate communication, Public debate, Speaking