A grey dawn was breaking over the Salisbury Crags. Arthur’s Seat looked bleak, and ancient. In the seven-teeth century, men thought the earth was made 6,000 years before. After examining the crags, they realized that the earth could be as much as a million years old. I wondered if Bancho would ha...
I wanted to get back to Edinburgh fast and he was a lousy passenger on a bike, whether I went fast or at a snail’s pace.He just didn’t get it.I loved the twisting country roads that led from Tanya Hayder at Castle Fearns back to Edinburgh, but, like most men in my experience, he couldn’t follow m...
It was obviously an event of cataclysmic proportions–on cue, Fishy walked towards me, carrying a briefcase and looking neither right nor left. Things must be bad if Glasgow Joe was letting cops in his pub. As Fishy called my name, I numbly stood to attention, allowing him to hug me and kiss me on...