Alice Maplefield’s Battle With Authority
Alice Maplefield’s eyes shine. The gleam reflects in her silver framed spectacles creating a certain essence, one which you may be forgiven for thinking is the essence of intelligence. But this aura secretes not from Alice. She sees it in other people, when alert enough, which isn’t always the case with her fading powers of…
Who Do You Think You Are
‘The search (for forebears) can gather its own unstoppable momentum.’ ‘Our ancestors may not have been famous or made appearances in the history books, but they are the stuff of real history.’ As quoted from Dan Waddell’s book Who Do You Think You Are. Unless you are Josh Widdicombe, you have little chance of boasting…
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Pentland View
‘Ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.’ This is an anonymous quote in the Call of the Pentlands, A Land of Glamour and Romance, a book by…
Silent night
Be early, they say. Play them in with carols. Hark the Herald. Being the eager brass players we are, we comply. My instrument is slung over my shoulder, my glittering Santa hat slants zappily as I climb the stairs to the hall. Familiar stairs, familiar hall, familiar people. They nod, and smile, complacent in the…
on impulse
There’s no writing class today. No notes to take, no notebook to exercise. I scan my bookshelves instead, for inspirational reads. Muriel Spark jumps out. This wonderful Scottish author from Edinburgh, of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie fame, picked up her pen every day, spinning colourful threads in her notebook, a canvas of intrigue developing. Her notebooks teemed with scribblings…
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