The Sandstone Blog
Reading poetry on trains
The Highland Festival used to have its offices among the topmost reaches of Inverness Castle. For those who have not visited Inverness the Castle is a reddish confection located on…
Malgré tout
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh left me more or less untouched until that to Theo dated 21st July 1882 from The Hague. Some things arrest you in your career…
Bullet
The Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester is running a Don McCullin retrospective to mark his 75th birthday. You can read about it here http://bit.ly/crvwPY and admire some…
Crumbs of comfort
Shand MacEwan, Scotland’s favourite old poet, looked up from his word processor and turned clumsily in his seat. A stroke had left him weak and barely mobile down the left…
WaterAid
Away back in the early 80s a young engineer stood over an open manhole in the garden of a Council house located in a town not too far from where…