First Day at School

The local Radio Station was taking calls on Your First Day of School. I was able to tell my story from 1965. My own experience was that I was picked up by minibus and taken to our local school, New Gilston Primary School, with two teachers, two new students, myself and Pat Lees and about 25 other kids. We had to say the Lords Prayer, Sing Onward Christian Soldiers and then sit down and do some drawing. I can still remember how humiliating it was to watch how neatly she was able to do a picture of her house and mine was an uncoordinated scrawl.

What is it with girls? They are so clever early.

The Kingdom of Fife

Just a couple of images from where I grew up. I like old maps. This is from 1659. Below is East Lomond an eroding volcanic lump close to Auchtermuchty (Home of the Proclaimers). We used to go walking there fairly regularly, just up the road from Falkland , home of the oldest tennis court in Scotland. They still use it now to play real tennis.