As I attempt to finish the account of my life in Billericay as a young boy between the ages of
In 1962, my family moved from the quiet village of Culcheth in Lancashire—home of sheep, pies, and Northern understatement—to the
Stuart Beckett was a popstar or pop singer in the 1960s, chasing dreams in the midst of a musical revolution.
My brother Stuart called to tell me of our father’s death. My father had been living in Thurso, Caithness, in
After my 2006 visit to Eigg, I finally got round to start writing the book about our family history. I
The poem is inspired by Mary Bell MacDonald’s account of the Nasty boys of the Isle of Eigg (Dressler: 2007).
The Galmisdale laird, Robert Laurie Thomson based himself in the large house at Galmisdale. He moved the crofters away “where
I visited the Galmisdale Farmhouse and the Gamekeeper’s Cottage in 2007 with my son Alan. Tasha and her daughter were