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THE LAST POST
Here's another extract from THE LAST POST, available in print and Kindle editions from Chalk Path Books
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IAN COLLINS STOOD PERFECTLY STILL and upright in front of the Remembrance Garden and commanded his right arm to salute the dead. Long way up, short way down, was the way his drill sergeant had taught him. Bend the elbow out as you raise the arm, ( Read more... ) -
THE ISLAND
Here's a short extract from THE ISLAND, one of my contributions to THE LAST POST:
"So most days it’s just Rory, me and the Landie. I fill it up every week or two at Jas Stewart’s pump by the lifeboat launching ramp in the port and don’t tap the red oil in the heating tank. After all, when it comes to it, I’d rather keep warm than mobile. The croft ( Read more... ) -
This is what we're like
This is on my Facebook, but I thought I'd post it here as well.
I've read a few reviews of the Olympics opening ceremony now. There's an interesting split. The British media - even the most rabidly right-wing of them (with certain disgraceful exceptions) - have been enthusiastic about it. The US media - especially, it seems, in the blogosphere and ( Read more... ) -
Mood Elevation
I've been enjoying a real first-day-of-the-holidays feeling today and it's all down to Danny Boyle's ramshackle, crazy, optimistic and inspired show last night.
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Writer's Block: Out of this world
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Attended a funeral yesterday. The crematorium where it was held was appropriately (I suppose) cold, bleak and wintry with bare trees and a clear cold blue sky. The funeral went as well as these things can, but gained an air of strange magnificence when the coffin was piped into the chapel by a piper in full regalia - kilt and sporran. I hope he had ( Read more... ) -
Dodged a bullet?
Well, it seems that my brother (who was hauled into hospital last month) may be, if not exactly out of the woods, at least on their borders ( Read more... ) -
SJA
Oh, that was great.
Especially the bum control for Mr Serf and Rani to Clyde:
'We'll do it my way. We'll take precautions.'
