Category: Scottish

• The Frustrations of Travelling – What’s New?

  If you think the 70 mile Christmas trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem, by donkey and foot, couldn’t have been much fun, compare it with the 50 mile trip from Edinburgh to Dundee in 1848 ….. You took train no.1, from Edinburgh Waverley down to Granton harbour on the south bank of the river Forth.  You […]

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  25th Dec 2022

  Christmas, Current Affairs, History, Scottish

  Bethlehem, Christmas, Dundee, Edinburgh, Ferry boat, Nazareth, Train, Travelling

• A Late Lark Singing …..

  This is one more, spontaneous, one-off interjection into my current series of posts on my religious ‘paradigm’, triggered by my previous one on the music of Frederick Delius, who set to supremely beautiful music, a poem of W. E Henley entitled “A Late Lark Singing”. When we see a radiant, wide spread, deep red sunset, […]

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  15th Jan 2022

  Literature, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Scottish

  Assisted dying, Death, Delius, Henley, Poem, Red Sky, Sunset

• The Wonder of Water, a Greek Philosopher, a Scottish Writer

  Around two-and-a-half thousand years ago, in a Greek city in what is now Turkey, Thales of Miletus was captivated by the wonder of water, thinking it to be the single substance that was the origin of all things. In those pre-scientific days, this wasn’t such a crazy idea. After all, liquid water can change to […]

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  2nd Mar 2021

  Environment, Literature, Philosophy, Science, Scottish

  Atoms, Cairngorms, Fertility, Miletus, Mystery, Water