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The Running Tide

August 24, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

Here I am at the seaside, again.  Torquay this time.  Home to Fawlty Towers, and the inimitable Manuel (Qué?).  Maybe we’ve hit on a particularly good weekend but I get the feeling it is often like this in Torquay: hot and sunny with endless blue skies.  Eternally tanned pensioners watch knots of youngsters crabbing at … Continue reading The Running Tide

Summer’s Parting Sighs

August 21, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

This time last week I didn't even know where Clevedon was, never mind think that in a matter of days I would be wandering along its promenade enjoying the late summer sun.  But life takes unexpected turns and catapults you to unforeseen places, which for me, yesterday, was the southern shore of the Severn Estuary … Continue reading Summer’s Parting Sighs

Dry Your Eyes, Sunday Girl

June 30, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Welcome to the dawn of the summer holidays.  C., a teacher, described to me her take on the summer holidays.  The end of June, she says, is the equivalent of a Friday evening – it gives you that generous and spacious feeling of a weekend; time stretching ahead, filled with rest, adventure and possibility.  Right … Continue reading Dry Your Eyes, Sunday Girl

Flowers Appear On The Earth

June 19, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 3 Comments

I was listening to a gardening programme on the radio at the weekend while driving back to Edinburgh along the East Lothian coast. It was the usual Sunday Q&A, this time broadcast from Northern Ireland where one woman, from the Ards Peninsula, asked why her foxgloves were eight feet tall this year.  Most of the expert … Continue reading Flowers Appear On The Earth

Lughnasa

August 1, 2018September 29, 2018 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

Was it only me, or did you feel as though July delivered about three months worth of life packed tightly into just thirty one days?  Was it the early dawns and late sunsets?  Was it the heat?  Was it the pin-balling news: wildfires, world cup, Thai boys’ rescue, summits, protests, elections in Pakistan and Zimbabwe, … Continue reading Lughnasa

Gratitude

July 22, 2018September 29, 2018 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

The way through the forest to get to the cottage on Crosby Lake is definitely not a road, but it’s not quite a dirt track either.  Whatever you might call it, it has ‘gateway to wilderness’ written all over it in the form of chipmunks scurrying across the path, the hindquarters of deer disappearing into … Continue reading Gratitude

School’s Out For Summer

June 29, 2018September 29, 2018 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

John Taylor Gatto devoted 30 years of his life to teaching.  When he resigned, he ploughed his energy into writing books about modern education; books that weren’t always complimentary about the ideology, history, and consequences of western teaching practices.  I’m not going to get into all that, but today, as many children break up for … Continue reading School’s Out For Summer

Because It’s June

June 21, 2018 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Because I can, I am starting a sentence with because. Some might grimace at my syntaxical audacity, but there you go, I’ve done it.  Because it’s June.  It’s the longest day of the year, and I’m giving you - and myself - licence to do what we want.  Go light a big bonfire on a hill … Continue reading Because It’s June

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