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See our page from April when Hamish’s statue in the centre of St Andrews was unveiled.

by John McCrae, May 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the … Continue reading →

Ode for a Birthday Boy                                                  Thanks to The Beatles Perce,  you’ve grown older, losing your hair, … Continue reading →

Scaffolding       Seamus Heaney Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding;   Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.   And yet all this comes down … Continue reading →

SONNET 116    William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, … Continue reading →

 The PEST      W Rus Darling       (best to read it aloud) Oh ye,  wha in your oors o ease, Are fashed wi golochs, mauks an flees,   bothered with beetles, maggots fleas Fell stingin wasps an bumble bees, Tak tent o … Continue reading →

Hear it on Youtube    www.youtube.com?v=XrZ041XhCOI Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus; Post jucundum juventutem, Post molestam senectutem Nos habebit humus. Let us therefore rejoice, While we are young; After our youth, After a troublesome old age The ground will hold … Continue reading →

IN A BATH TEASHOP           John Betjeman “Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another- Let us hold hands and look.” She such a very ordinary little woman; He such a thumping crook; … Continue reading →

  Hamish  –  St Andrews Cat About Town When I was born A green-eyed ginger kitten, I was the bold one, the pick of the litter.   But I grew up.  Next life, lord of all In a house in … Continue reading →