Rousay Mending—its physical components, briefly illustrated
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Such an Air (V)
Such an Air (IV) GEORGE SUFFERED too from this shivering thing, and hadn’t believed Ian would make it back here. He’d long been physically sick as well, with TB, but had got away at last, via Newbattle, and Muir, and now the university. Whatever he did later, the
Such an Air (IV)
Such an Air (III) WEDNESDAYS IN Kirkwall were half-day closing, and the other week Ernest had asked Ian along to the Cathedral. He was keen to tell him more about the plans already in progress for a plaque to be installed there in Edwin's honour, lying as
Such an Air (III)
Such an Air (II) JOCK WAS out early to see to his creels, then fetched the lorry from the yard at the pier. The Shapinsay boys had taken care of yesterday's delivery, including extra road lamps—wee buggers, you find them everywhere, halfway up the cliffs—and a
Such an Air (II)
Such an Air (I) THE SEA AIR, the sea spray, the unbearable cabin, the long hill of the island coming closer and closer, rearranging levels, shapes, becoming itself. Sooty-black hilltops that so resembled Nolde's painting in the book Janet gave him that Christmas. All coalescing as though