Harry Bingo
My tribute to lifelong Partick Thistle supporter, Harry Calderhead, sung to the tune of Kris Kristofferson’s Johnny Lobo Born […]
Category: Prose and Poems
Words, words and words.
Claire
Claire was standing looking out of her workshop window. In one hand she held a blow torch and in the other a […]
A Song For Tomorrow by Alice Peterson
A Stewarton Sonnet
A Stewarton Sonnet His toun Her toun Their toun The Annick toun A panoramic toun A sonnet’s toun The […]
World Poetry Day Doon Chooky Brae
I’ve just found out that it’s World Poetry Day and I could let the 24 hours pass without using it […]
Sawasdee to Sunny Soi Running
Sawasdee to Sunny Soi Running Well, I ran my final five miles along the dusty sois of Siam this morning […]
My New Year in Thailand
I wasn’t expecting New Year in Thailand to be a big deal. Well, not our version of it anyway. […]
Village Life (Moo Baan) in East Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand
Introduction I wasn’t sure what to expect from village life in Pattaya but I thought that I’d give it a […]
Choosing the Polaris Path
We awake in the middle of the night, My black dog and I. The darkness calls out, Offering a […]
Held Back
1 My dreams, my plans, my future, my whole life smashed into a thousand pieces. The school’s decision to place […]