July 2026

The latest Pollokshaws Cadillac show is streaming here on Mixcloud. Full playlist at the end of this wee essay I always liked a seat if I was out for a drink. Standing at the bar or in a milling, jostling crowd made my prematurely old bones creak, back in the days when I actually went…

…and the new Pollokshaws Cadillac is available on Mixcloud, with the self-same single by Van Morrison opening the show.Full playlist at the end of the essay. I love that the song Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard) was written by someone called Fleecie Moore, which sounds like the kind of nom-de-plume a Shetland…

Some thoughts on Humanism, humanism, Christianity and other religions. And the funerals and weddings I conduct I’ve found myself back writing and conducting funeral services, after a few months’ necessary break for health reasons. And following some reflection, I’m available once more to legally marry folk. I know there has been a little confusion in…

It’s been a hard week, since my first experience of NorthLink’s flat-lie pods on the 12-hour boat trip north from Aberdeen to Lerwick, last Friday into Saturday morning (up at 5.00am to avoid the rush showerwards). Then a memorable journey north last Saturday, by ferry to Yell and then another to the island of Fetlar,…

You can listen to my weekly music show, The Pollokshaws Cadillac (volume three) on Mixcloud here. Full playlist at the end of this essay. I used to come to Edinburgh to sell stories. Now I’m here to sell books. Retailing rare books is (one of) my part-time occupation(s), or call it a spare-time hobby if…

Music from Scotland, to Scotland the world. And revisiting old Glaswegian haunts Full playlist at the end of this essay. click the arrow above to play the show free via Mixcloud Pollokshaws is on the south side of Glasgow, and it’s where I grew up from the ages of one to seven and then 17…