Other writing
A walk with Patrick Geddes
One Saturday in mid-September I spent a morning in the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. No: not for that. I was there for a guided walk: a risky undertaking, I thought, from several points of view. The walk was to start in Dunbar’s Close Gardens, a 16th century ‘close’ in the...
Making the Cat Laugh
No Valentines from the cats again. Sometimes I wonder whether they are working as hard at this relationship as I am. Reflections on the single life by Lynne Truss So begins Lynne Truss in her collection of media columns. These appeared originally between 1988 and 1995...