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Amaryllis, Amaryllis

April 7, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

I love a bargain, and (confession/judgement alert) I cannot understand anyone who doesn’t. You know the sort of people who are embarrassed about buying supermarket food that has been marked down after 5 o’clock, or they run the other way when you start haggling at the fish market, or they won’t buy an old book … Continue reading Amaryllis, Amaryllis

Hello Petal

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

The Door, written by Magda Szabó, is a post-war story about a woman’s relationship with her housekeeper, of whom the narrator says, “One can tell instinctively what sort of flower a person would be if born a plant, and her genus certainly wasn’t the rose, with its shameless carmine unfolding – the rose is no … Continue reading Hello Petal

The Rising of the Light

January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

The light is coming!

This Time of Year

September 4, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

We start to lose the light this time of year and the sun moves back towards the bridges. Every evening as I watch it set from Calton Hill the sun creeps closer to the whale bone rib cage cable stays of the Queensferry Crossing. The runner beans in the backgreen have stopped searching for whatever … Continue reading This Time of Year

A Terrible Beauty

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

At first, I thought it was nighttime roadworks. Or an ambulance pulled in by the side of the street, its lights flashing. Largely, I’d pushed the flickering to the back of my mind, dismissing it as some sort of strobe lighting outside. That was until I heard the BOOM! Then I knew it was the … Continue reading A Terrible Beauty

Whiter Shade of Pale

August 4, 2020August 7, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

Some summers are golden; they are tanned legs, they are parched yellow grass, they are sunshine dancing a path on the ocean. Other summers are filled with the primary energy of blue and green; they are endless azure skies into which runner beans curl and stretch, they are hedgerows heavy with honeysuckle, they are jewelled … Continue reading Whiter Shade of Pale

Strolling With Ghosts

July 26, 2020August 22, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Yesterday, my friend and I walked the land around Ireland’s oldest linen fabric mill, Clarks of Upperlands, in Mid-Ulster. A section of it is still working after 300 years, but much of it is disused and abandoned, but for a few dog walkers, quiet explorers like ourselves, and more than the odd ghost. We walked … Continue reading Strolling With Ghosts

Please Stop Raining

July 15, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

You would think I would have learned by now to temper my expectations. That, being from these parts, I’d have fashioned my character from stronger stuff. How I wish I had mastered the ability to rise above the suspended ceiling of grey, grim damp haze that has fallen in. By the hour I try in … Continue reading Please Stop Raining

Rise and Shine

June 26, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

I’m no lark. At this time of the year the sun is up many hours before I am. It is breaking, rising and shining whilst I remain snoring, sinking and languishing. Earlier this week, however, fuelled by a rush of midsummer energy, enthusiasm for life, and renewed hope that it is, after all, a wonderful … Continue reading Rise and Shine

Come With Me

June 7, 2020October 22, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

The good thing about walking alone is that you have time to stop and see and take note. The bad thing is there is no one to enjoy it with. I write this for you, and I walk with you. Come with me. I’m cutting up the side of London Road Gardens. Cow parsley sways … Continue reading Come With Me

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I hope my online Edinburgh Press will, in time, hold a similar collection in words to that which is in my Edinburgh Press at home.  I will add to it as often as I can building a collection of memories and observations bubbling up from below, breaking the surface of my mind. I’ll send them out into the world where you can, if you want, share them. Welcome to My Edinburgh Press.

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  • Finding My Way April 18, 2021
  • Corsets Should Not be Worn April 13, 2021
  • Amaryllis, Amaryllis April 7, 2021
  • Light, Chill and Yellow April 3, 2021
  • What Does It All Mean? March 29, 2021
  • A Year of Consolation March 23, 2021
  • The World is Just a Great Big Onion March 17, 2021
  • IRL March 11, 2021
  • This Little Piggy March 5, 2021
  • Hello Petal February 26, 2021
  • Imaginary Friends February 21, 2021
  • Ketchup February 14, 2021
  • Thick Snow Everywhere February 10, 2021
  • Edinburgh City Walk February 6, 2021
  • The Rising of the Light January 30, 2021
  • Some Things I Miss January 23, 2021
  • Things Are Bound to be Improving January 18, 2021
  • Mind Yourself January 10, 2021
  • Are You In A Bumble? January 6, 2021
  • That Was The Year That Was December 29, 2020
  • Pity Mice Implicitly December 24, 2020
  • Thanks for the Memory December 20, 2020
  • The Courage to Say No December 13, 2020
  • I Haven’t Made Up My Mind December 6, 2020
  • Here and Now November 29, 2020

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  • Finding My Way April 18, 2021
  • Corsets Should Not be Worn April 13, 2021
  • Amaryllis, Amaryllis April 7, 2021
  • Light, Chill and Yellow April 3, 2021
  • What Does It All Mean? March 29, 2021
  • A Year of Consolation March 23, 2021
  • The World is Just a Great Big Onion March 17, 2021
  • IRL March 11, 2021

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