#SilentSunday
Collection Box presents Martha Ffion, Jill Lorean & Goodnight Louisa at The Doublet, Glasgow West End | What’s On Glasgow Music night in aid of Amma Birth Companions.
Doublet Bar Dec 17 from 7:30pm to 10:30pm GMT
(@marthaffion @jilllorean and @goodnightlouisa).
Organised by My daughter & partner, all proceeds to Amma Birth Companions. Tickets.
From my on this day page I found a 2010 post with a broken image had been on flickr, but no more. I found a copy on the internet archive. Replaced, added alt text & left the attribution in place.
From an unrelated search of my posts, a post from 2016, fixed two typos.
Happy moments.
Day 4 of my advent calendar of simple #H5P examples, in. Glow Blogs. A wee game for primary school pupils every day till Christmas.
A walk to Duncolm via Loch Humphrey & Fynloch hill in the mist & drizzle today. Very mild for the time of year. The burns are full and the paths are bogs. Some photos on a map:
walkmap
A little egret & a pal were quartering the horse field at the star of the Loch Humphrey track. A few minutes later I head a nuthatch. Both are fairly recent arrivals in Scotland I believe. Due to climate change. It is a very mild start to December & fields are surprisingly green. Drizzle & mist
Saw two of these wee guys on the pavement. The one that was not knocked over said something like:
you have been detected and are being observed on cctv, please leave the area.
Seems quite strange to ask folk to leave a public pavement? Maybe I should have tried talking to it?
Crow road Glasgow.
#SilentSunday
Read: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood ★★★★★ 📚
Little waves are shouldering the cart’s tyres, spitting upwards at his face. The sea is patterned by the rain like honeycomb. He’s trying to make the best of it, but he can tell the horse is getting more reluctant.
A wonderful novella. A few days in the life of a young horse & cart shrimper working on a misty flat coast. Beautiful slow description of the daily grind in the cold & wet. The story unfolds slowly into drama, dreams & music.
Read: Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively ★★★★ 📚
There is a vogue for ‘life writing’ at the moment, both for publication and as private endeavours. I am all for it, partly because I gobble up other people’s lives, as a reader, but also because it seems to me a productive personal exercise – to stand aside and have a look at your story and try, not to make sense of it, which may be too taxing, but to trace the narrative thread, to look at the roads not taken, to see where you began and where you have got to.
Lovely memoir and reflections on memory, books & old age. The author is continually curious across history, objects, people…