New Year memories

Somehow or other I found myself wandering aimlessly around Tollcross, a hing oot fae my childhood. It was just the … More

Happy birthday, Mum

You would have been 89 today. It’s over 10 years since you died and the shrink I’ve been seeing since … More

Union Canal Blues. My old childhood playground. I went for a 5 mile daunder there this week and even though … More

Linda died on the 8th August. Two days after her funeral it was my dead Dads birthday. Now it’s my … More

Nine years ago today, Folkestone took care of Grace Muir Hamilton nee Robinson.

Well to be fair all the women in my Mums family were a bit mad. Proper mad that is. Not … More

So it’s Mothers Day and all that. My mother was; Grace Muir Robinson 1929–2008 BIRTH 25 SEP 1929 • 122 … More

She was a bit too young for the war but when she was 17 my Mum, Grace Muir Hamilton nee … More

Grace Muir Robinson born 25 September 1929. Here’s her favourite photo of herself next to a WAAF mug. She joined … More

One of many my auld Irish mammy went on back in the fifties, all dolled up in another home made … More