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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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...
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The last short ride, and meandering reflections
Our last ride was, in some ways, the hardest. Eleanor had slept fitfully on the train from Glasgow and was shivering when I woke her just after Stonehaven. It is...