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April 2023

Hexham Festival bathes in Spring Sunshine

Date Published: 26th April 2023

Alexander visited Hexham Literary festival yesterday for a hugely popular lunchtime event at the Abbey. The delightful drive down the A68 from Alexander’s Edinburgh home is more or less straight. Once you’re on that road you simply keep going… but the landscapes in the Spring sunshine are spectacular. Wide open green spaces, hills, woods and […]

From the Royal Court Circular, 4 April 2023

Date Published: 6th April 2023

‘The King gave a Dinner Party at Windsor Castle this evening. The following were invited: His Excellency the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway and the Reverend Dr. Strømmen, His Excellency the High Commissioner for Canada and Mrs. Kendel-Goodale, the Bishop of Coventry and Mrs. Christopher Cocksworth, the Lord and Lady Kakkar, the Leader of […]

A Story for April: ‘Ferry Timetable’ from The Private Life of Spies

His name was Fergus Andrew Mactavish and he was a farmer in a remote part of Argyll. He went to his grave, unexposed, in 2003. At that simple ceremony of farewell, conducted under a West Highland sky filled with sharp, April light, only two of those present were aware of any claim that Fergus might […]