by tim_bell | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s been a while since I paid this site any attention. Not that stuff hasn’t been happening. I think there’s only one copy of the reprint of my book (at Topping bookshop). And we’re going to a second edition, due out in February, timed to...
by tim_bell | Nov 13, 2022 | Latest News
A chap I knew as a laddie, 30-odd years ago, died last month. He was a nice boy. Probably consequent upon a youthful experiment in his teens, he had a drug problem for about 25 years. His own family had to keep him at a distance, for their own protection. It was...
by tim_bell | Jun 30, 2022 | Latest News
It’s been a while! Hello again. I’m as keen as ever to claim Trainspotting for Leith. It’s a local story. Leith disappears in the film, but it all started here. Read all about it in my piece in The Leither . Then see The Proclaimers take away A...
by tim_bell | Apr 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
A centenary only comes along when you haven’t had time to get ready for it. Didn’t see it coming. That wasn’t the reason for missing the centenary of the amalgamation of municipal Leith with municipal Edinburgh in 2020. The centenary was in 2020, you...
by tim_bell | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Scotland – the state of play on the cusp of 2022 What State? We’re in a poor state. The SNP, always wanting to say things would be better in an “independent” Scotland and in government unbroken since 2007, has no interest in making devolution work well. Beyond its...
