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  • Montage

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

  • Strutting and fretting

    Publicity shot taken by Maggy Mitchell ( now Nisbet).

  • 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…

  • Starman

    The interweb was awash yesterday with grief and astonishment, after the news broke of Bowie’s passing.  As is the way of these things, I was looking at his son’s Twitter feed when the death was confirmed, elliptically.  Better voices than mine have aired the pain, but for what it’s worth he was indeed the ultimate…

  • 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

  • Meditation

    I suppose I should really be putting something in here about recent events, but the fact that my – our – dad was not of the social media generation makes me reluctant.  I never really tried to explain Facebook to him and I think he would probably have been faintly horrified at the wannabe celebrity…