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Writing, Fiction, Football and Whatever Takes My Fancy
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Or: The Astrologer. Edited by P D Garside. The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 356 p plus 53 p Essay on the Text, 50 p Emendation list, 2 p list of end-of-line “hard” hyphens, 16 p Historical Note, 67 p Explanatory Notes, 20 p Glossary, i p Foreword, i p […]
15.3.2025 12:00Guy Mannering by Walter ScottBrian James, founder member of punk rock band The Damned, died on 3/3/2025. Punk rock wasn’t really my thing but it was undeniably a significant part of the late 1970s musically. This song, written by James, wasn’t a hit in the UK but is very familiar from radio play in the years since. Brian Robertson […]
14.3.2025 12:00Reelin’ in the Years 245: New Rose. RIP Brian JamesHindeloopen is a town/village on the IJselmeer (formerly known as the Zuiderzee) in The Netherlands. It is one of the eleven “cities” of the Elfstedentocht. IJselmeer from seadyke at Hindeloopen:- A Hindeloopen Street to left of above:- Going round to the right leads to the harbour and this Lifeboat House. KNRM is the Dutch eqivalent […]
12.3.2025 12:00Hindeloopen (i)Just in from ParSec is If the Stars Are Lit by Sara K Ellis, published by the Scottish based Luna Press. The author is another that is new to me. Of the list ParSec sent to choose from this time this was the only Science Fiction on offer. All the rest were fantasy. For me […]
11.3.2025 12:00Newly ArrivedWorkum is another of the eleven cities known as the Elfstedentocht, in Friesland, The Netherlands, but it’s more of a village really. The tower in Workum:- It s Elfstedentocht Fountain is in the form of two stylised rampant lions:- The pond area to the left above:- The canal just behind with small road bridge centre […]
10.3.2025 12:00Workum, The NetherlandsSPFL Tier 3, The Rock, 8/3/25. Another defeat.All the more painful for the goal being conceded in stoppage time. That’s six in a row now. It doesn’t help when the manager is playing selection bingo to give all the players game time. Just put your best team on the pitch. (Mind you he probably doesn’t […]
9.3.2025 12:00Dumbarton 0-1 Inverness Caledonian ThistleChatto & Windus, 1990, 517 p Insecure academic Roland Michell finds in a pile of unsifted-through papers relating to Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash unfinished drafts of a letter from Ash to a hitherto unknown possible female lover, a relationship which would overturn the prevailing view of Ash’s life. For reasons obscure even to himself […]
8.3.2025 12:00Possession: A Romance by A S ByattQuaye was born in Edinburgh. His father Cab and half brother Caleb were both also musicians. This is his first UK hit, from 1997. It wasn’t till that year that he and his father finally met. Finley Quaye: Sunday Shining
7.3.2025 12:00Something Changed 86: Sunday ShiningIn June last year we visited The Netherlands again. One of the day trips we took was to Dokkum, in Friesland. On the way in to the town fom the car park, along the canal, I spotted this house (in that Dutch fashion known as De Stijl?) which is so Art Deco looking:- Further on […]
6.3.2025 12:00Dokkum, The NetherlandsSPFL Tier 3, The Rock, 4/3/25. Yet another defeat; this time in front of BBC Alba’s cameras, so I got to see the game. Arbroath started brightly but we scored first due to Michael Ruth winning a free kick and then taking it himself banging a beauty just under the bar. We were riding our […]
5.3.2025 12:00Dumbarton 1-2 Arbroath