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This last year or three has brought nothing but division, building up into derision, insults, blackmail, threats even. Once upon a time voting was a simple thing. You thought it out, went to the polling station and ticked the box. Now, before you vote, you get hours of televised temptations. “You want a better NHSContinue reading “Peace and Goodwill to all”

    Major scale  c – In the playground of my mind I see myself. Just thirteen. I’m sitting beside my new friend. d – Ann and I are in the first year of secondary school, drawn together from the start. We love school, life outdoors, and music. Mr Cook is recruiting for the schoolContinue reading “Lost Notes”

The eatery in Waterloo Place is busy, many faces to search, and they’re searching me back. Ladies laugh, men too, waiters weave a weighty waltz, children squeal, cutlery colludes with plates and bowls, tinkling, clattering, a juxtaposition of noise. I’m here for a reunion, to reminisce with old colleagues, women I worked with forty-five yearsContinue reading “Earth to Jellybean”

Mount Vesuvius, a somma-stratovolcano in The Bay of Naples, a giant form shadowing the towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other settlements. Towns destroyed after the deadliest eruption in European history, happening in AD 79. Around 2000 people were killed, burned and suffocated, buried under hot ash and pumice blown in the wind. Hard to imagineContinue reading “Hot Head”

Welcome to Jimjan’s Journal. Half man half woman I hear you ask.  Indeed not.  I am the girl child of Jim and the son of Jan…….only kidding….about the latter anyhow.  I am the daughter of Jim Currie who part created me, my mother Elizabeth Currie nee Johnston doing the rest.  Together they made me…Jan. ButContinue reading “Tangled Up In Blue”