Every now and then we go back to St Andrews and always find things have changed. I already knew my old hall of residence had become luxury apartments (!) but it was somehow even more of a culture shock to find Fatface , Costa and Waterstones rubbing shoulders with more – um, traditional establishments. But each … Continue reading St Andrews in a New Light: the Adamson family
In an age when even best-selling authors are rarely given any tangible reward for turning out to big festivals, however distant or inconvenient, needless to say lesser mortals only ever do these things only for fun and for the love of what they do (which in itself gives smaller events the special atmosphere remarked on here by Joanna … Continue reading Ali Bacon, feeling blessed
What possible excuse can there be for not stopping here to flag up possibly the busiest weekend ever to have graced my calendar? I’ll leave out the Friday golf and light opera event and cut to the chase of things I feel you need to know about. So here we go, here we go … Bright and … Continue reading It’s here – that big weekend!
This blog seems to have become the repository for matters close to my heart and as is the way of these things sometimes you don’t realize how much something matters until it’s under threat. Not that cuts to libraries are anything unusual, but suddenly it’s our libraries and yes, they matter a great deal. For anyone … Continue reading Libraries Matter
Today a large part of Scotland will be giving a collective sigh of relief as the Forth Road Bridge re-opens to traffic. But for how much longer? When I crossed last September I never imagined it might be for the last time. All of which made me think about how the bridges dominated our lives growing … Continue reading Forth Road Bridge to re-open, but for how long?
Ali Bacon, Author 