This is nonsense.
But once the Aliens had dropped the seed in my brain, it insisted on writing itself.
Though not a poem, I gave John B. Moronigal the blame.
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This is a story of eulogy to a fine man, a man known to many in Bearsden as their GP.
Dr William Matheson was the founder of the Auchenhowie Angling Club.
He was also a legendary Hockey Player, a Goalie, playing on and on and on, for anyone who would give him a game.
To celebrate his 7Oth Birthday he bought a new set of Goalie Whites!
Known to friends as Dr Bill, he was ever cheerful, and full of kindly mischief.
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In this PC world of ours this piece may draw fire.
The full title is “Overheard in an Orthodontist’s Waiting Room...”
It came from thinking about my friend Norrie, sometime bit-piece actor and thespian of that ilk, putting on his best Sean Connery accent.
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This is a parody of a meeting with a friend.
She too is smitten with the writing bug, and like me, she to is garrulous.
I have long since stopped competing!
I suspect many of my Readers who know her will spot her at once.
She has read this piece and has ‘forgiven’ me.
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A few years ago we fulfilled a long held wish to visit Spain’s Costa Verde (Green Coast).
It was a superb holiday. We really should go for another visit.
This area in the North West of Spain sits above Portugal and abuts France.
We spent two weeks on the Costa Verde, exploring Galacia, including a week in La Guardia.
Like their Catalonian cousins around Barcelona, the Galacians are fiercely proud and independent people with a distinctive culture and heritage.
And Galacians make wonderful energetic music! It sounds almost Scottish.
In this piece you may recognise a ‘certain gentleman’ who gets a panning.
The Ladies who Lunch are entirely fictional.
It came out as a sort of ‘script for a play’.
(It is 1200 words long, about 5 minutes reading.)
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This is a collection of mini-tales linked to our caravaning experiences.
I hope they may entertain and perhaps chime with other Caravanners and Campers.
(It is about 6,500 words taking about 30 minutes to read in one session, but you can dip and drop as you wish.)
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Granny Morag took her precocious grand-daughter Olivia to the Primary One ‘Induction Day’.
Here is the tale of what might have happened.
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This is a story which is true.
We were setting of to enjoy a wonderful holiday in Bedogno, with Pheona and David, at “Art Holidays in Italy”.
We had our friends Jim and Sheila in tow.
Being true Intrepids, they planned to do trekking and climbing, while we did Art and Sculpture.
It was on this holiday that I first realised how much creative writing had taken over my life!
There is a complementary story called “Lillias Rosa” which you might like to read.
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This is tale written while we were enjoying a wonderful holiday in Bedogno, Italy, with our friends Jim and Sheila. We stayed with Pheona and David at their villa, the base for “Art Holidays in Italy”
There is a complementary story called “Weigh to Go”, which you might like to read.
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This is a wee story that has its genesis in a visit to a coffee shop.
I was about to sit down when I saw what I thought was a ten pound note wrapped in something.
For an instance, I thought I had found a Lottery Ticket.
What I had actually ‘found’ was just a colourful receipt wrapped in another stiffer white card receipt.
A that point the story was born and I went straight home and tapped it out.
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