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Category: Family

  • Mothering Sunday

      After great pain, a formal feeling comes By Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go round – A Wooden way Of Ground, or Air, or Ought…

  • A Sunday Post

    A couple of more up to date pictures below.  Yesterday I was in Dundee to meet Sheena Wellington. I spent a completely fascinating three hours singing, talking about singing, discussing songs, more singing, and came away with a year’s worth of reference material.   Sheena has a prodigious knowledge of song and was immensely generous with…

  • Montage

    Please imagine “Me Again” by J Mascis playing while these are showing.  Found in a photo frame at Beechwood Gardens.

  • More pictures

    Forgive the prosaic title post, I know you all like to struggle with the metaphysical concepts behind each one. Controversy reigned after I posted the picture of maybe-Belle Buchan.  Pretty fittingly, since I and many others spent the whole of 2015 in The Land of I Don’t Know, we will never know, but for reasons…

  • Tree Roots

    Report of our parents’ wedding.  Mum wore Aunty Joan’s wedding dress.  Double click to enlarge.     This website was originally set up to share family photos and in the light of recent events there is going to be a bit more of that.  Once again thank you to Marika for her genius idea. The…

  • Meles Meles

    “In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Attr.).  To be honest I read that in a Snoopy cartoon in the 80s, back when I thought the Daily Mail practised ethical journalism.  And in the interests of veracity, it is only 02:50. I am surprised…

  • As you were

    Some more pictures, which have long rested in the family archive.   George Stephen, 1887 – 1962, Latterly Police Inspector,  Falkirk & Stirling Constabulary.           Betty Smith and Jean Miller, both Dip. Ed.      

  • Same, old

    Well, we did a hell of a lot of very difficult things in 2015 and it looks like the on-going trend is not to be bucked by any arbitrary, year-end, “out with the old, in with the new,” nonsense.  Some pictures below, before and above to document the sharing out of treasured memories, sisters will…

  • Sorority

  • Circulation

    There’s a word to think about, circulation figures governed my life when I worked for Menzies.  Movement of any kind in the transport sense is a huge issue for us just now and my husband had that full throttle last night as he attempted to get to Glasgow from The Bay,  and in the sense…