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Category Archives: children
On this week in Scottish history
24th January 1873 East of Fife Record ‘Romantic affair at Aberdeen…About three months ago a beardless, rosy faced young person of some eighteen summers, rigged out in regular jack tar habiliments, made application…to be apprenticed. During the voyage, which was … Continue reading
Posted in Burke and Hare, children, crime, Crime; History, Edinburgh, Emigration, First World War, fishing, Glasgow,, Historical Crime, history, Immigration, life experiences, literature, maritime, murder, Scotland, Shipping, Uncategorized, War
Tagged cholera, crime, Edinburgh, events, First World War, Glasgow, poetry, Robert Burns, Scotland, war
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On this week in Scottish history
11 January 1918: Representation of the People’s Act gave the vote to all adult males aged 21 or over except peers, prisoners and the insane. Women aged 30 or over could also vote, provided that they were householders or wives … Continue reading
Posted in Abduction, Books, children, crime, Crime; History, Edinburgh, family, Glasgow,, Historical Crime, history, humanity, maritime, military, Nazi Germany, People, publication, publication, books, author, publishers, Scotland, Shipping, slavery, sport, Uncategorized, War, writing
Tagged child abduction, curling, Edinburgh, Glasgow, history, Scotland, Second World War, slavery, whaling
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Tweed Memories
There can be fewer more fascinating things than a part-frozen river. The banks are solid with ice, thicker than a hand-span, gleaming silver, white and blue in the winter sun, and great chunks, sometimes six, seven, eight inches thick float … Continue reading
Posted in children, family, family life, folklore, life, life experience, Memories, River Tweed, Uncategorized
Tagged fishing, Ice, river monsters, Scotland
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Whaling and Victorian Values
Today, the 1st of December 2015 Japan’s whaling fleet sailed from Shimonoseki in south western Japan. The ships will head to the Antarctic and hunt whales from the end of December until March 2016. During that period they will kill … Continue reading
When Inspiration Knocks
It has been said that any book is ten per cent inspiration and ninety per cent perspiration, but without that initial spark of something, any written work is drudgery. It is that ten per cent that gives the writer a chance … Continue reading
CHILDREN
Children: the centrepiece of any family. That is obviously a truism for without children there is no family. Cathy and I have three. They are all grown up now, with the youngest at 23, but to us they are still … Continue reading
Posted in children, life experience, Uncategorized
Tagged children, Family values, memories
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