Archive for January, 2011

26 Things I Did In Glasgow

Sunday, January 30th, 2011
  1. Art school - visited the school, designed by Charles Rennie Mactintosh, Glasgow’s greatest architect;
  2. Ballads - unaccompanied singers, mostly middle-aged women, performing beautiful traditional Celtic numbers at the Celtic Connections festival;
  3. Car Park - heard the hilarious story ‘I’ve never been to a car park’, told by a man from a tiny Highland village;
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Richard Jefferies & I

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Richard Jefferies was Victorian nature writer & novelist who lived from 1848 to 1887. I feel a great affinity with him, because we have so much in common.

To start with there is the obvious connection of our name. We are both called Richard. Then…

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