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If there was one record that set my feet upon the path of rock’n’roll, it was…Prodigal, by The Gospelfolk. Released in 1969, we had one of the first copies to see the light of day, as the lead singer, one John MacCalman, was my mum’s wee brother and a hero to me and my sisters.…
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Just back from Pisa (it has a tower that leans) and Lucca, wherein I got lost, in a car, in streets that grew ever narrower, until it was just me and this tiny wee old woman in a red oilskin…or am I thinking about somewhere else? Anyway, here’s a thing: Glen Grant Five Year Old,…
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At the finish: Last but only slightly embarrassed James with his free fish supper and milkshake Almost over I felt sick. It could have been the over-abundance of granola and porridge (carb loading, on son James’s advice) or simply nerves. This morning was Shetland’s, and my, first cycle sportive, in aid of the Royal National…
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….with many thanks to Richard and Jolene at Precious Productions!
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…Just offshore from the house last Sunday night at about 10.45pm. Picture by Stewart Cunningham/Great Scot Photography.
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Will try and get a video of this being sung up on YouTube – it’s part of the live show My Bad Gospel: The Backslider’s Songbook Vol 1, due to debut at Belladrum 2011 Hallo Andy I heard from your mum She’s most concerned about what you’ve not become The people of Scotland, they’ve been…
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I’ve owned three Honda outboard motors, and this is the third, attached to a diminutive inflatable boat (also made by or rather for Honda). Four-stroke engines, none of that nasty petrol-oil mixing. All have been brilliant starters, even after weeks lying idle at storm-lashed moorings. One saved my (and my venerable Shetland Model’s) bacon when…
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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…
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View from atop The Old Bookshop holiday cottage
