Razia: A memory of Mum
I think that’s so important though because it’s not the materialistic things, the things that have monetary value, that are precious: it’s more things that have a sentimental value but are irrep... Read More
Julian: The scars that remind me how lucky I am to be alive
It was a very, very black time that I had to go through. But I wouldn’t have it any other way because all that I’ve got right now, pretty much, has come from that. The cancer’s never too far awa... Read More
Betty MacKinnon with her Bailliere’s Nurses Medical Dictionary
"This is the very very first book I bought when I became a student nurse. 4th September 1951. Of course when you start nursing you go into preliminary training school and you have to buy things. Well,... Read More
Eugene: The piece of music that cured my writer’s block
"I had crippling writer’s block. It had been haunting me for about 15 months, whereby I just couldn’t write anything. It wasn’t permeating just my musical creativity but my entire being. And all... Read More
Kenny: Weaving Harris Tweed on an old loom
I started weaving when I left school. This was my mother-in-law’s loom. It was my mother that taught me how to weave. And when I got the new double-width loom, I just didn’t have the heart to thro... Read More
Ross Macrae with his bagpipes
"I started learning how to play the pipes in primary 4 or 5 when I was 7. And I’m still learning. It was something at school that everybody did because you got to skive out of a class to go and do i... Read More- 2 of 3
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