More McPherson
Australia, McPherson, drovers – People think of theold drovers as living in general poverty but that wasn’t the case. Old McPherson, the drover I mentioned, could take a good dram when he was droving. Who […]
Australia, McPherson, drovers – People think of theold drovers as living in general poverty but that wasn’t the case. Old McPherson, the drover I mentioned, could take a good dram when he was droving. Who […]
Moidart, Australia and drover McPherson. My wife had an adopted aunt called Mary, whose father had been a drover. I heard of Mary as Mary McPherson but women had a habit of calling their friends […]
Garden of Eden – When Adam and Eve left the garden of Eden, a flaming sword was placed at the gate. What are we supposed to learn from that. We are supposed to learn that […]
Ben Okri – I watched Ben Okri being interviewed – what a great experience. A story should be about life, not a genre. It should be political, military, ordinary and romantic as well as sad […]
I’ve been researching to do a follow up novel on Drover. It’s set in Scotland after Waterloo with all the unsettled returning soldiers and the early mechanisation of the cotton industry. At school we were […]
Yachts, Book Covers and mysteries – I sometimes wonder if I do things the wrong way round, if I should take a book cover and write the story about that instead of finding a cover […]
RSPB produce brochures that tell how to make a garden that will attract butterflies and birds and provide a habitat for things birds eat. It’s ideal for teaching 7 to 10-year-olds or even teens who […]
Pot Holes, Burns and Bible Study – I found the following, written in the late 18th century, while researching for Burns’ night and thought it still applicable. “I’ve arrived – thanks to the gods, Through […]
Burns’ Night or Burns Nicht is past and I wonder how many heard anything beyond Mice and Tam O’ Shanter or knew that Burns had written one or two things that might just look twenty […]
There are now two stories from the family archive on the web page. Bedsheets and Broomsticks is a Dalton tale and the new one, about Ruff is a Granny Clarke story that was originally published […]