In 1978, Japanese singer Momoe Yamaguchi released the song ii hi tabidachi as part of a campaign by the Japanese National Railways. I love this whimsical and nostalgic song, and when I sat down on the shinkansen bullet train almost 40 years after its release, I heard an instrumental version as a departure jingle. The train lurched forwards, theContinueContinue reading “On the Cape, a Boy is Fishing”
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On the Audacity of Seagulls
I am awoken, like much of Edinburgh’s population, at around 3:20am by a rare thunderstorm. I get up and sit at the living room window with the cat. I have a view across the harbour to Fife, and I watch white roots of lightning appear in the sickly green-brown of the sky. I count theContinueContinue reading “On the Audacity of Seagulls”
Iona Grant 