Tag: Scotland
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The lost railways at our door
We have lived in Donmouth for about 17 years now, long enough to have found interesting details in the landscape. Soon after we arrived, back when the salmon nets still...
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Nine headed birds
There are some places you visit and remember, and there are other places that you get tangled up with. Wuhan is such a place for me. In 2015, I accepted...
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Cancelling the TV License
Here in the UK, most people pay a separate subscription to support the BBC; it’s called a TV License, and I have always seen it as being like a voluntary...
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Junctions
“Although I have enjoyed this last year in Chittagong enormously, I have resigned my post at Asian University for Women in order to look after my family.” — That’s a...
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purple prose
It’s midsummer’s day. No surprise, then, that it’s cold and overcast, with predictions of thunderstorms. If I think back across the year, then it feels like a very long year...