Tag: druncles

new hair-dos and old hair don’ts

Lockdown Day 14: Sunday 5th April, 2020 First time we kissed, and I do mean kissed, not sloppy cheek peck kissing as Aunties do with barely-tolerated nieces and nephews, was at another family get-together. Everyone was crowded into grandma’s house. I was a 17 years young, mid-seventies hippy, lost and waiting to be found, sad […]

all passed in the blink of an eye

Lockdown Day 10: Wednesday 1st April 2020 At home as kids we were never allowed out to play on a Sunday. A sop perhaps to the Calvinist legacy that engineered an empire, built a world and remained strong in the Scottish psyche. But we never complained. It was just the way that things were, even […]