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Our Friends | The Frequency of the Wood

Our Friends | The Frequency of the Wood

"Had a lovely trip over to Jura and took a boat out to a whirlpool of the end of the island.  Believe it is the third largest in the world and whilst the waters were choppy and lots of undercurrents we did not go round and round in a whirl - which I was slightly...

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Cassidy’s Corner | Shortbread and Brawn

Cassidy’s Corner | Shortbread and Brawn

My father-in-law liked to read, eat sweets and drink whisky. Most of all he liked to make money. He had an unconscious habit of shaking coins in his hand–a reminder? My mother-in-law used to call him moneybags but that was after they were divorced. Mr. Mac, as I used...

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Our Friends | His Strong Toil of Grace

Our Friends | His Strong Toil of Grace

Doug said he didn’t like Shakespeare: “too difficult.” Yet, he quoted Macbeth as he remembered reading every work of Faulkner when he was serving his country in Taiwan in 1967: "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Towards the end of...

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Cassidy’s Corner | The Orchard of My Mother

Cassidy’s Corner | The Orchard of My Mother

My mother loved to read and to drive fast. When she crashed her car into the handicapped elevator at the back of the library, she didn’t stop reading but she did decide to stop driving. Wisdom does come with age–she was 84. Two years before on Christmas Eve, we had...

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Cassidy’s Corner | The Frogman, a Prince

Cassidy’s Corner | The Frogman, a Prince

My dad lost a lot. When he was two years old he lost his father who died from complications from being gassed in the trenches during the Great War. He lost his mother next, who had to go to work to support her two sons. Jack was angry at her, not understanding her...

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