Flashback. One sultry Saturday night in the south of France last year I caught a glimpse of the near future hurtling towards us.
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I thought back to another year I knew
Autumn, lifting potatoes and stacking peats
On Mull… Ruthven Todd
There it is. Reading aloud from his latest book, Alexander McCall Smith nabs a furtive shadow from another time with a few lines from Ruthven Todd’s poem written in 1938. Continue reading
Soay bay: photograph by Jemma Cholawo
Because it’s Friday…a trip to another world, not so very far away as the seagull flies. Anne Cholawo’s YouTube film about her life on Soay which led to a top-selling book Island on the Edge: a life on Soay Continue reading
