(18) The importance of asking the right question
Having been brought up in South Wales I was familiar with the close knit spirit that existed amongst mining communities. When I first...
(17) Stella & life in the (not very) fast lane
My apologies for such a large gap since I last wrote a newsletter, we’ve had a ton on our plate in the last year which just seems to have...
(16) The lion and the carrot
Being brought up in the early 70’s was a very different experience from today Parents and school were far stricter and social mores were...
(15) The break in
Meanwhile back in Nottingham it was the late 70’s and I was settling into the humdrum of working in the city centre. After the rather...
(14) The poor woman's Sacha Distel
Apart from Archie the other person I visited in London regularly was another old chum from college universally referred to as“GeePee” ...
(13) Halloween
Around our neck of the woods the locals rather get into the whole Halloween thing with lifelike gruesome monsters in the nearby woodland...
(12) Back to Skye
Back to Skye It was summer time again, I had been in Wiltshire for nearly a year and was missing my old life and friends on Skye. I’d...
(10) A life in Devizes
So finally I was fully qualified and able to take up my first position with a small group of independent practices centred around Devizes...
(11) Ooops!!
When I moved to Wiltshire I rather embraced the local life which basically consisted of frequent drives out to various pubs dotted in...
(1) The Isle of Skye
After leaving college in London in the early 70’s I had to do a one year pre-registration training period before I was let loose on the...
(2) Settling in
I began work with Roger, my pre-reg supervisor and Catriona a local lass (who quickly became “Katie” much to her annoyance) who pretty...
(3) Eilean a’ Cheò
Roger was a pretty bright bloke, Elder of the Church of Scotland and the only optician for 100 miles in any direction. He suffered from...
(4) The heroic holidaymaker
The MacKinnons The MacKinnons (not their real name) were the sort of family who make Jeremy Kyle leap out of bed in the morning They...
(5) Hogmanay
It would be somewhat remiss of me to describe a year on the misty Isle without touching on the thorny subject of the demon brew and the...
(6) Roger
The "Makinnon" family as I describe them didn't exist, they are in fact no more than a literary invention. The events I described...