This post was composed in collaboration with my old friend, fellow A-ha fan and English teacher extraordinaire, Susan Main. We recently took a wee trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (or Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as it used to be) and encountered many of these phenomena.
Continue readingThis is my story on UCB2
11 JulI talked to Ruth O’Reilly-Smith on her radio show, ‘This is My Story’, on Tuesday morning about my novel, Leda, why I went to Albania, and what I’m up to these days with Restore Glasgow.
Continue readingWhat’s that coming over the hill? Is it a heatwave? Is it a heatwave?
28 Jun
Sticking with my blog’s theme of failing to stick to a theme, I’m sharing a poem I wrote a few years back about the unpredictable, and usually disappointing, British summer.
Continue readingInterrail day twenty-five – Brussels to HOME!
22 May
The epic journey comes to an end. I’m trying not to be too sad about it because the last time I started thinking that way, my train was cancelled!
Continue readingInterrail day twenty-four – Brussels to Ghent and back
21 May
I set the alarm wrong and woke up very late, so that I had to scramble to make it to breakfast. It’s a good job I’m only going to Ghent today, and not London!
Continue readingInterrail day twenty-three – Brussels
20 May
This was supposed to be the final day of my trip but, of course, now it is not. Instead I will be attempting to travel home on Sunday, which gives me two extra days in Belgium.
Continue readingInterrail day twenty-two – Salzburg to Brussels
20 May
A day of many changes. Like that children’s circle-game with the fishes (“tide is turning!”), I didn’t know whether I was coming or going.
Continue readingInterrail day twenty-one – Venice(ish) to Salzburg
18 May
Today has already started better than yesterday.
Continue readingInterrail day twenty – Bari to Venice
17 May
After almost three weeks, this is the only day that has been a total pain so far, and threatens to be a pain all day.
Continue readingInterrail day nineteen – Lushnjë to Durrës via Tirana
16 May
It’s easier to get to Tirana than it used to be, now Lushnjë has its wee bus that shuttles from the village of Karbunarë in the south to Plug in the north and back again. Previously you had to either get yourself out to motorway on foot or by taxi, or catch the bus that leaves from Lushnjë train station at 7am 🤢
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