“It’s not only children who resent having to go to bed by day!”
Poetry Corner: Bed in Summer
Poetry Corner: Bed in Summer
“In summer, quite the other way,/I have to go to bed by day.”
Book review: ‘How Scotland Lost Her Parliament and what came of it’ by Charles Waddie, 1891.
Review of ‘How Scotland Lost Her Parliament and what came of it’ by Charles Waddie, 1891, available now on the Random Scottish History website.
Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship Opens for Applications
“This is a wonderful opportunity for established writers to gain some time away in a beautiful location to focus on their writing.”
Poetry Corner: Escape at Bedtime
On 2nd of June 2003 Europe launched its first voyage to another planet, Mars.
Poetry Corner: From a Railway Carriage
On February 24th 1923, the world famous steam train, the Flying Scotsman, went into service with LNER. It was the first train to run non-stop between London and Edinburgh, and also the first steam train to reach the speed of 100mph.
Poetry Corner:Heather Ale
On this day 20th of May 685 the battle of Nechtansmere, in present-day Angus, was fought.
Poetry Corner:Winter-Time
Robert Louis Stevenson died in Samoa on this day in 1894
Poetry Corner: Requiem
On this day on 16th of July 1832 31 Shetland “sixerns” and a total of 105 crewmen were lost in a storm.
Poetry Corner: Robert Louis Stevenson
“Whenever the moon and stars are set,Whenever the wind is high,”
