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The warm shores of womanhood
On the last stress filled day, when we finalised the last dots and commas of RLS IN LOVE, the wych elm in front of Sandstone Towers declared that spring had…
The precarious lamp
Matching the nuts, bolts and lubricated surfaces of practical outreach to an inbuilt, foundational internationalism is one of Sandstone’s great challenges. We might say it is one of the great…
Highland spring
It’s mid-May and my daily walk by the Cromarty Firth is decorated with flowering broom and hawthorn. As far as can be seen the ospreys have not yet returned from…
Ten years and growing
After more years than I cared to remember the Scottish Parliament had been wholeheartedly endorsed by the electorate and the Referendum had summoned majorities more massive than even the dizziest…
Our Mutual Friend
By the end of August 1939 Wysten Auden had arrived in New York with his lover, Chester Kallman, with whom he would spend the rest of his life, not always…
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