Throwing Cheese at the Space Birds
Mummy, imagine if there was a tree as big as twenty-eight million thousand school buses, and it went up as high as the moon? Would you...
City Walking
I have only a finite number of steps for city walking. Glamour, squalor, edification and dereliction crowd me like the filthy pigeons. It...
Muir of Dinnet Endurance Ride
Steam off a hot horse and a drying road. Heavy rain that dies away like a round of applause, leaving the air singing to a beat of...
Mrs Cargill
She asks me which branch of the Rural I belong to. I’m just the singer, I say. We share stories. Her husband died nineteen years ago....
Silence
The wind is booming in the chimney. The clock ticks. The house sighs and creaks. Silence is so precious to me. It’s a luxury, and...
Your problems are not mine – for my Airor Angels
The first time I heard it I recoiled. I thought it meant distance, but it doesn’t. It means just because I have hurts, I can still listen...
Comedy
Four of us went to a comedy show last night. I forgot how much I like to laugh. We all had things to feel sad about, or scared about,...
Milestones
My baby is one year old. She does not want to crawl or walk yet. She does not like to cry or fuss about anything. What she likes to do is...