Month: September 2008
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Time for comfort food
With capitalism crashing about our ears I have been busy in the kitchen. Making marmalade might not save the household from financial disaster but there is something comforting about tucking into home-made breakfast while the credit crunch devours another victim on the morning radio. So the consumer boom is over. That doesn’t mean we have…
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Through the garden gate
I have been wanting to see what is on the other side of this gate for almost 20 years. It seems almost magical to find a walled garden here on the island of Canna, a long and often bumpy boat journey from mainland sources of vegetable seeds and flowering plants. For two weeks one summer,…
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September blues
I don’t need Google to remind me. Summer’s over before it began. Our virginia creeper has had so much rain this year it is smothering the garden and beginning to cover the next door neighbour’s house. But it’s going out with a blaze. Happy autumn equinox!
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Gone fishing
I’m off and away for a week to the island of Canna where the summer has been hot and dry, so dry they had to cancel some holiday bookings because there wasn’t enough water to cope with extra visitors. I have a horrible feeling that lack of water won’t be the problem by the time…
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Open and shut
And so, let’s pause a moment here, draw strength – and reclaim what is ours. Ron Butlin It was a fine affair: a red carpet, a string quartet, speeches from private and public bodies, a poem composed for the occasion, and fizzy wine to wash it all down. But, rather oddly, the official opening of…
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Opening and closure
I’m off to the official opening of St Andrew Square this morning. In some way it feels like the end of a journey that started for me when I joined the board of Edinburgh City Centre Management almost exactly five years ago. The big item on the agenda at my first meeting was a plan…