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Scotland, Ho.
I have a funny relationship with Edinburgh that began in 1977, when I first visited it — on December 21st. I’m still getting over the idea that a place exists where the sun rises after 11am and sets again at 3. No such problems in August, of course, but I always seem to arrive for [...]
Remembering August 1973
It’s after midnight and I can see the shooting stars from my bedroom window. Flashes of dramatic sheet lightning are lighting up the clouds over the sea at approximately regular intervals, and when they come, I can see the big sailboat that got its timing wrong and has been stuck for hours a little way [...]
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