The Sandstone Blog
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…
Valediction
The phone rings and your life changes. This time it was one of the District Nurses who visited my mother at her sheltered accommodation in Glasgow. ‘Robert,’ she said and,…
The year’s books 2007
A couple of years ago Roger Hutchinson of the West Highland Free Press asked me to write something on my favourite books of the year. At the time I was…