Hi. Welcome to my writing blog. A selection of short stories and other musings. Feel free to browse and make yourself at home.
It's a relatively rare thing to have snow fall as often as we've had this winter. Turns a grey winter cityscape into something altogether easier on the eye. I used to work in an area of Glasgow riven with multiple deprivation. The only time it ever transcended it's perma-bleakness was on days like this. Snow … Continue reading Snow!!!
A walk home from a night out with old friends always puts you in a reflective mood. Maybe you open up to the world a little. Beer helps. That said, a smartphone camera lens is a poor way to capture a night time scene, but hopefully this gives some sense of the unusual. I am … Continue reading Light
I came across this rare footage of David Gilmour playing an old Richard Thomson song some months back. The Dimming Of The Day. Beautiful version of a wonderful song 🙂 https://youtu.be/EK2N3S0lr4c
So. I did a new thing. Something I'd wanted to do for a long time, but for reasons I won't elaborate on here, could not. It wasn't on a bucket list. I didn't swim with a dolphin. Machu Picchu is as far away as ever and I won't be swimming in the Dead Sea anytime … Continue reading Something New..
In a book I acquired some time ago, a sage advised that the first thing a writer should do, every morning, is download whatever crap is in their head into a journal. That way the scattered junk in your mind can be swept away, along with the torrent of words. Dumped onto a page. Gone. … Continue reading Moniack Mhor
A return to an island I first visited a year ago. The half marathon I'll be running is just an excuse to go there, if such an excuse were really needed. A beautiful place renowned for its coastline and beaches more than anything else. It is remote and if you stand at its western most … Continue reading Tiree
I wrote this for a competition ran by the Hospital Broadcast Service. A fantastic bunch of people made more fabulous by picking my humble tale as its first ever competition winner in January 2017. The Swan The Swan hissed. It's pink tongue trilled inside an opened beak. Moments before, its huge wings had beat the … Continue reading Weegie Wednesday Short Story Winner 2017
Welcome to my blog. An assorted cornucopia of recollections and short stories. Some may be accurate, some may even be true... Feel free to graze and, should the fancy take you, tell me what you think. Be gentle though. I bruise easily 🙂
The Absent Minded Scribe 