When the Saints beat the Devils
Five-foot one, flabby bum, Bobby Stokes is on the run! Southampton from Division Two have beaten the odds-on favourites, the […]
Haiku
A haiku, or hokku, is a Japanese verse form composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, […]
Run With Toon
I stumbled out of the taxi in the heart of Chiang Rai city. I had reached my destination, the Nak […]
Nicaragua-Books Not Bombs
Lucky me. I’d bought a raffle ticket at a meeting held in a draughty old Edinburgh school, on a cold […]
Elvis Presley in Prestwick
As the noise of the DC-7 engines died, I could hear the high-pitch sound of screaming teenagers outside the aircraft […]
An Ayrshire Goudie
An Ayrshire Goudie I scanned across the silent sea, Straining my grey-green eyes as I searched for any stubborn sight […]
Sentinel Works, Glasgow
The Sentinel factory in Polmadie, Glasgow is the earliest reinforced concrete building in Scotland, built in 1903-04 by Archiebald Lietch […]
Black Lives Mattered to David Dale
Stewarton’s most famous son, David Dale was a leading Scottish industrialist, merchant, and philanthropist. An excellent book entitled David Dale, […]
Four Pine Trees
They had a certain calmness Those Scots pine trees That stood together On the edge of town Four […]