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 […]
Moorhen in Maxwell Park
Earlsferry
We will not move all night and all day You’ll hear the CMO say But she’ll go to Earlsferry Earlsferry […]
I Wish I Was in Stewarton
Here’s my version of the great Billy Connolly song ‘I Wish I was in Glasgow’. Oh, I wish I […]