From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Firhill – let’s pretend

by Jan on June 8, 2009

A cubby hole in the kitchen, where a servant used to sleep, now housed the ironing and the safe, and became a stage for my endless theatrical performances. The costumes for these extravaganzas were housed upstairs in the tiny box room where a chest contained my great grandmother’s Victorian and Edwardian clothes. Every afternoon, whilst [...]

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Firhill – living in family history

by Jan on June 3, 2009

Firhill had been a family home for my maternal great grandparents and their ten children. My great grandfather, and then my Uncle John owned the Albert engineering works at the foot of the hill opposite the house, so presumably they were fairly affluent. Certainly the photographs would indicate this, plus of course, the size of [...]

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Gamelan

by Jan on June 3, 2009

13th July 1987. A warm night. In a garden, previously a grass tennis court, surrounded by rhododendron bushes. The midges were driving us all crazy, they were not put off one jot by the joss sticks we had burning everywhere. This was the night my life changed forever. I played music for the first time, [...]

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