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Dougie

Jun 20, 20222 min read

Must all good things come to an end? For now ...

We begin our long journey back to Australia tomorrow -- north to Paris by train then two flights back to the big southern island. So here...

Dougie

Jun 17, 20221 min read

Some days there is only one way to be ...

The chirping of cicadas in 70 year old olive trees is the only sound to disturb the peace. Do cicadas chirp? I am too hot to care. The...

Dougie

Jun 15, 20221 min read

Ditch the ego. Just write.

You get up early on a day when the breeze has dropped and it's twenty-seven or twenty-eight degrees by breakfast. And your brother asks...

Dougie

Jun 12, 20221 min read

Trigger Alert -- nearly naked Scottish guy almost smiles

My brother warned me that life in the Trullo would be rustic ... that's the word he used. Rustic. Did he mention it would be rustic and...

Dougie

Jun 11, 20221 min read

A kitten came looking for breakfast

I sat in the shade of a Trullo. A kitten came calling for breakfast. Then mum came. Then they came. Then later we wandered down long...

Dougie

Jun 10, 20222 min read

A short and simple tale. Two brothers meet.

My younger brother provides my verifiable first memory. In a taxi. In the rain. In Aberdeen. I was -- what? -- three and a half years old...