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Tag: Scotland

  • Episode 2 | Childhood Lasts a Lifetime

    Flight Response with John Rattray
    Flight Response with John Rattray
    Episode 2 | Childhood Lasts a Lifetime
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    In this episode I revisit a conversation I had with, photographer, journalist and trainee clinical psychologist, Alex Irvine.
    The conversation was to accompany a skate career retrospective (my skate career) in Free Skate Mag.
    Rather than a standard Q and A, I sent Alex a couple of thought starters and then we let the conversation flow from there.
    The thought starters were the statement, “Childhood Lasts a Lifetime” and the question, “Is skateboarding a form of self-harm?”
    I hope you find it helpful and/or informative.

  • The Gulls of Aberdeen

    cairnfield architect motif
    cairnfield_chimney_gull
    fittie gull chimney sentries
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    fittie gull chimney sentry
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    Gang of gulls on the sea wall at fittie
    cairnfield_take_off
    aberdeen harbour herring gull
    gull_flight_cropped
    nairn wheelie bin buried in sand

  • Going West: Encouraged to be.

    From Beauly we follow the A862 south for a couple of miles then turn right on the A831 towards Struy and Cannich. At a small road signposted Kiltarlity 2 ½ Eskadale 4 ¾ we turn left and freewheel down hill, fast, towards Black Bridge over the River Beauly. My spirit soars, I am an eagle, a kingfisher, a pterodactyl, (more…)

  • The ramp in the park

    Aberdeen is on the North East coast of Scotland. The harbour there, at the mouth of the river Dee, has been in commercial use since 1136 according to records, but the Dee estuary was probably utilised as a port for many moons preceding that. For a long time Aberdeen’s economy was centered around fishing, textiles, shipbuilding and paper making. These were over-shadowed in the 1970s by the discovery of large deposits of crude oil just off the coast in the relatively shallow waters of the North Sea. I have a feeling that this discovery catalysed some sort of civic mutation. (more…)