Some of my fondest memories of childhood were of long summer holidays in the west of Scotland. And of the people I remember most clearly from those days, Murdo McMurdo sticks out in my mind.[…]

It was in Dougal’s bar that I was befriended by Ted. He was a retired businessman from Dublin, who professed that he had made three fortunes and lost two. It was on the occasion of[…]

I had been working for some months in a large geological services company based in North Wales, and we were both growing rather tired of each other, even after such a short period of time.[…]