Monthly Archives: June 2011

Overconnected

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Hyper-connectivity is not a word I’d heard until yesterday lunch-time, or if I had, it hadn’t registered. It has now. I was listening to three writers talking on Radio 4 about how our lives are being affected by our unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Repent, repent

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Alone in a glass case in the Church section at the back of level three of the National Museum of Scotland stand two objects which, at first glance, seem quite unexceptional. One is a square wooden chair. The other, draped … Continue reading →

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Ex libris

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

The thing I most remember from my student days about the main Aberdeen University library was the carved mouse climbing the leg of each chair. It was a lovely touch, irreverent yet also somehow appropriate to what I remember as … Continue reading →

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Labour of love

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

This is a commercial and I make no apologies for it. My friend John Simmons has written and published a beautiful book. It’s called The angel of the stories. It’s about a young woman called Julia who lives in a … Continue reading →

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Other worlds

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

A sackcloth gown and an empty room in a disused telephone exchange might not sound much like the stuff of dreams, but the human imagination’s a wonderful thing. I’m trusting that mine is going to respond by taking me on … Continue reading →

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