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We launched David Bleiman's Tongue Stramash in Edinburgh's Waverley Bar last night, with Hugh McMillan and July McNeill ...
23/05/2025

We launched David Bleiman's Tongue Stramash in Edinburgh's Waverley Bar last night, with Hugh McMillan and July McNeill (poet in residence for St Mirren football club) also speaking.

To celebrate eighty is something quite weightynot least when there's roomfor a partner with whomyou keep making each dat...
26/04/2025

To celebrate eighty is something quite weighty
not least when there's room
for a partner with whom
you keep making each date intimatey
- from Old and Bold, launched ten days ago

"Make every day an open door,when evening comes, there's something more."
11/04/2025

"Make every day an open door,
when evening comes, there's something more."

This is known as 'The Friendship Plant' (bilbergia nutans). Make books your friends!
30/01/2025

This is known as 'The Friendship Plant' (bilbergia nutans). Make books your friends!

Our latest poetry booklet has 3 marbles - jauries in Scots - on the cover. That's not just a nod to the Trinity - get 'I...
18/01/2025

Our latest poetry booklet has 3 marbles - jauries in Scots - on the cover. That's not just a nod to the Trinity - get 'In His Pocket' to find out more.

A Happy New Year to all our readers and writers!
02/01/2025

A Happy New Year to all our readers and writers!

"We are now reprinting 'Unforgotten Years' - the amazing story of how Samuel Lamarti, a Muslim Hafiz from Morocco, who b...
22/11/2024

"We are now reprinting 'Unforgotten Years' - the amazing story of how Samuel Lamarti, a Muslim Hafiz from Morocco, who became a Christian and ended up as a Church of Scotland minister.

At one time, in a little Scottish village, he was the minister and another Arab was the doctor. Now retired, Sam is still active and living in Kilmarnock."

Why did people come from as far afield as Latvia and Islay to the launch of Power Plays and Pulpits? It's a book about ...
08/11/2024

Why did people come from as far afield as Latvia and Islay to the launch of Power Plays and Pulpits? It's a book about the struggle to build churches in the Highlands and Islands! Sounds dull until you read the blow by blow account of the fight between Scotland and Westminster, the characters involved and the background of the Clearances. Foreword by John Bell. Commended by Anna Magnusson and Alistair McIntosh as well as church historian Stewart J. Brown.

Laptops are amazing - mine still works after being hit by a lorry. We are OK, and people matter more than laptops.Jock
11/10/2024

Laptops are amazing - mine still works after being hit by a lorry. We are OK, and people matter more than laptops.

Jock

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