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Dougie
Sep 29, 20246 min read
Poetic Justice
Not long after you break your neck in three places (in a not-swimming-well-enough accident) people tend to ask a lot of questions.
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Dougie
Jul 20, 20246 min read
Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
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Dougie
Jan 12, 20241 min read
A poem in remembrance of Martin
12 January 1943 to 27 January 2018. My friend Martin Currie. We always spoke on the phone this day since coming to Oz.
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Dougie
Jan 12, 20233 min read
Martin Currie
Anyone who wins the best dressed man at the Galway Races, -- without knowing that's 'a thing' -- undeniably has sprawl.
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Dougie
Jun 4, 20223 min read
"the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun."*
It is in days such as today I find myself. Quiet, simple days where not much happens on the surface. Time passes slowly. I am with people...
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Dougie
Jun 3, 20224 min read
In the immortal words of John McEnroe ...
You cannot be serious! We took a mid-morning train to Edinburgh Waverley. As far as I know, it's the only train station named after a...
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Dougie
May 29, 20226 min read
The Journey Home ... delayed by a deer on the tracks
The promenade at Weymouth is a peaceful place at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. The only sounds are those of the natural world. The...
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