Monthly Archives: August 2008

It’s been a bit of a Sunday afternoon of a week. The sort of week where the clock is a bit louder than usual and you drift off into an extra snooze or so. Perhaps it’s just what a body … Continue reading →

There was a heavy card at the Kirkcudbright duck race meet today. For the main event event of the day 500 highly trained racing ducks were turfed over the edge of the sea cadets boats and raced upstream towards the bridge. Until … Continue reading →

At this moment I shouldn’t be here. I should be offshore rounding of another Sunday’s work but it’s just not possible for your average oil riggy boaty sort of thing to carry on running for ever without a breath, so … Continue reading →

Kirkcudbright has long since had a reputation for art and even though the days of E.H. Hornel and Jessie M. King are long gone there is still a strong presence of practicing artists in the town, and as we know … Continue reading →

Last Thursday, or rather the one before it now, I was supposed to be climbing onto a helicopter to fly home or rather fly to Aberdeen where I would put the task into the hands of British Rail (or the … Continue reading →