Overall, Its been a good week!!.
A piece in finding the good in the difficult, covid, dogs and biscuits.
Northern Lights
A visit to the Loch to see the Northern Lights and other musings of time well spent..
Funeral Attire
What do you wear to a funeral? Black, perhaps. Something respectable. Something expected. But grief is uncomfortable enough without dressing yourself in discomfort too. Funeral Attire is a reflection
In the presence of possibility
This week’s blog is a wee meander through books, stories, Lucy, Aslan, cave paintings and AI — and the strange human need to keep telling stories, whatever tools we have to hand.
Mirror, mirror on the wall...
From 50,000-year-old cordage to satellites, vintage cars and AI, our tools have always carried something of us within them. But what happens when the tools become powerful enough to reflect us back?
Arriving on Time
Train journey to Dundee and into the work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Bonskeid House, Faskally, with members of the Barbour family in 1920, just prior to it becoming a youth hostel in 1921, my great gran is in the photo, although i am unable to identify her.
Historic Environment Scotland records the present Bonskeid House as an 1881 Andrew Heiton building incorporating an earlier house dating from around 1805. Local historical accounts identify it as the home of the Barbour family before they let it to the YMCA in 1921.
The fingerprints remain on the photograph because it has been held and kept. Bonskeid later became a place from my own childhood when I attended a music camp there during primary school. The house returned to private ownership in 2001.
Historic Environment Scotland: Bonskeid House Listing.
