Stuart Campbell's Blog
Smoke signals by Stuart Campbell
Lothian buses are carrying advertisements for the two Edinburgh crematoria. Warriston or Mortonhall? It is a dilemma, they both look nice in the picture. On balance I think Warriston if…
Jhaipur to Phulera Junction
Jhairpur Station belongs to the insect realm not the human world. Initial bewilderment was compounded by a posse of youths pointing at my bald head and asking, ‘How old you?’…
RLS: football traitor
When researching RLS in Love I stumbled upon a remarkable fact; Stevenson was a football supporter from a very early age. In a letter to his father the 13 year…
The letter
I’m still not convinced that I can’t take them with me. When I first started collecting books, and Stevenson in particular, the decades seemed to stretch so far ahead that…
Group confession
I’m not certain if a blogspot is the best place for a confession. In this secular age it may have to do as an alternative to kneeling in the dark…