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The Recovering Suicide and Loves Labour Lost

How to lose then win when you think you've lost it all.

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Turn Around

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-JGJp-_CM There's every good reason for letting you go She's sneaky and smoked out And it's starting to...

The Parting Glass

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zufPTLuShCU Of all the money that e'er I had I have spent it in good company Oh and all the harm I've ever...

12 months

12 months to the day I walked away from someone I didn’t want to leave. 12 months on, from the sheer torture of recurring dreams and...

Daunted by an 'Auld Man'

The blude-red rose at Yule may blaw, The summer lilies bloome in snaw, The frost may freeze the deepest sea; But an auld man shall never...

Perdition

The meaning of perdition is quite clear; ’a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unrepentant person passes...

Love

Sadly everything in between is quickly forgotten

Answers

About 50 years separates these two photographs. I wish I could go back in time and pass on the wisdom I have gained in over half a...

When the Pipers Play

A trifle twee but there’s nothing wrong with that sometimes! Enjoy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqxdeiZDzwo I hear the voice, I hear...

Gordon Duncan

One of my hero’s and one that got me into piping was Gordon Duncan. I’d been brought up in Army style piping and tunes and it was all...

O Sullivan’s March

A great band I’ve just discovered called The Gloaming. Check them out! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQgv0-ER3I

MacKays Memoirs

Lament for Mary MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FGMalhcGp9g

A final parting farewell.

Not really a poem as such more of a song lyric or loose collection of thoughts! Its nearly a year since it ended and 10 months since I...

Passengers

You must watch this film. It works on so many levels, as a good story should. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(2016_film)

My children

My beautiful beautiful kind caring funny intelligent wonderful human beings. I often wonder how I made them! My only legacy to the world...

Fishing at Orbost

I cannae get this tune oot ma heid so I can’t.......Some of you may know that I once played the Great Highland Bagpipe...I learnt to play...

Sean, Sean

Another favourite tune from the maestro, Ennio Morricone. Out of all the Sergio Leone films and Morricone compositions, this is without...

Bleh!

I’m feeling a bit ill today and very down, although a wonderful email has made me extremely happy for a while! I know a lot of you have...

Up and down

Having a bad few days. Don’t know if it’s the come down from being on set or something else. I’m having really horrible dreams again and...

Isolation

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything. I’ve had plenty to say but think it unfair when other parties don’t have the right of...

Sing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=69PPpkKTamo Baby, you've been going so crazy, Lately nothing seems to be going right. So low, why do you...

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