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Look at Her

November 28, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Look at her, sitting there at her desk in the glow of the screen not noticing the daylight fading. She loves that desk. It will soon be one year old. One year to her. It is much older than that. The day she bought it was a good day: car passed its MOT, she drove … Continue reading Look at Her

Navigating the Doldrums

November 21, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

British yachtsman, Alex Thomson, is currently competing in the Vendée-Globe; a round-the-world, single-handed sailing race. It should take him around ten to eleven weeks to complete it. I heard him interviewed on the radio one morning this week, just nine days in. I shivered with horror as I lay in bed calculating how many days … Continue reading Navigating the Doldrums

So Near Yet So Far

May 15, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I live in a tenement and I am surrounded by people, often just a few feet away, but they are unseen and mostly unheard behind thick walls – so near and yet so far.  They are above and below me, and on both sides of me, and I am reminded that we are all together … Continue reading So Near Yet So Far

The Calamity Lesson

May 12, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I wish it wasn’t true, but there is no teacher like adversity.  And the lessons that come from sudden calamity are often the ones that teach us the most.  The learning is far from over, because our shadowy visitor hasn’t just dropped in for the weekend, it has yet more to impart.  It is not … Continue reading The Calamity Lesson

Time to Consider

May 9, 2020May 24, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

We have so much time to consider, these days.  To consider anything and everything.  To develop little obsessions, healthy and unhealthy. (Note to self: consider if is there such a thing as a healthy obsession?) My best time, the time I set for considering, is when I’m outside walking and watching, looking and noticing. I’m … Continue reading Time to Consider

Few and Simple Pleasures

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

Social isolation – no difference there then!  C. said that to me last month when we were teetering on the edge of the lockdown and we laughed in mutual understanding, each of us paid up members of the Loner’s Club; that not so exclusive band of members who spend too much of the week hanging … Continue reading Few and Simple Pleasures

You Never Learn To Do It

April 8, 2020April 14, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Having been alerted to my own haphazard use of the full stop I now see it abused everywhere.  There is one particular book I am reading.  In this book it is placed most unconventionally.  Places where you wouldn’t expect.  Everywhere.  Are full stops.  Littered with profligacy.  Strewn.  Thoughtlessly.  Needless to say, it’s driving me mad, … Continue reading You Never Learn To Do It

Watching Silence

March 31, 2020September 28, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

One of the things I like about writing in the late afternoon or evening is that the light drops without me noticing it.  One minute – at least that’s how it seems – the sun is low, but up, and the next thing I know, beyond the glow of my computer screen, the room is … Continue reading Watching Silence

Stillness

December 3, 2019May 24, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 8 Comments

December seems to be a month crammed with responsibility and obligation, assignments and commitments causing us to accelerate as we approach year end.  This runs contrary to instinct, which would have us slow down, recline into the depths of the year and let ourselves ape nature in coming to rest like the dried-out teasel heads … Continue reading Stillness

Maundering On

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

There is a character in the comedy series Derry Girls called Uncle Colm who, as they might say in Derry, is wild fond of the sound of his own voice.  You see, Uncle Colm maunders on.  He rattles away, talking in that aimless, vague, drifting manner that begets a maunderer.  Not that Uncle Colm is … Continue reading Maundering On

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