May 2011

Mallard on the banks of the Clyde, right at the walkway/cycle path. It’s there every day. This morning, a man on a bike stopped and said to me: ‘it’s beautiful, isn’t it?’ Set me up for the whole day. Weird patch of old cobbles on the lost cycle route between Shields Road Underground and Paisley…

View from atop The Old Bookshop holiday cottage

This is my review of the new download-only EP by top Shetland trio Kollifirbolli. if you like fiddle music. you’ll love this. Available on iTunes for just £3.95: Kollifirbolli: The Loveliest New Version of a Favourite Style. Croft Records – digital download only. Available on iTunesTopsy-turvy. Upside down and round the wrong way. In a…

Other hounds are available. Actually, other hounds are available here in Greater Hillswick, and a proper Wolfhound/Great Dane cross at that, bouncy and inquisitive and not best friends with Lulu, the ageing and irritable (with other dogs) St Bernard in the picture. I beat a hasty retreat if I see neighbour Pete and the Other…