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 […]
Category: Short Story
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 […]
O Solo Meow
At a meeting this morning I was reminded of songs the kind of which they don’t write anymore. Songs that were classics and deserve to be remembered along with the great operatic arias like Oh, […]
Sharing
At the instigation of an article in Writers’ Forum magazine, I set about finding what and how I should write. This isn’t something new, it happens every year. After careful examination of my present self, […]
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 […]
Bees in my Bonnet / Books / Character Development / Short Story / Stuarts / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
The Lowlanders outlook at Culloden
I want to write about the Stuarts from their victim’s point of view and Culloden is a good place to start. A great deal has been written on Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Highlanders, all […]
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