Author Archives: Jamie Jauncey

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About Jamie Jauncey

Author, writer, blogger, facilitator, musician, co-founder of Dark Angels and The Stories We Tell

Wide knowledge

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

I’ve been talking to my friend Wenbo Xu again, quizzing him about all things Chinese as I lie face down, bristling with acupuncture needles. I love these conversations. They’ve become a quite unexpected bonus of my regular visits to him. … Continue reading →

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The bridge

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Two weeks ago I learnt that my former next-door neighbour, Ian, had committed suicide. He was 50 and he had fought alcohol all his adult life. Yesterday I went to his funeral. During the seven years we shared a garden … Continue reading →

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The New School

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

There has been a lot of interest in Friday’s post, and the school is happy for me to give details. It is The New School at Butterstone, Perthshire. http://www.thenewschool.co.uk

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Safe haven

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

This week I have been interviewing pupils at a small specialist school for young people who can’t get the support they need from mainstream education. It’s in a large old house, a lovely, comfortable, friendly place on a wooded hillside … Continue reading →

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Just do it

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

In the last twenty-four hours I have spoken to two Dark Angels ‘graduates’ who both, independently of one another and unprompted by me, said in so many words: ‘the main thing that I got out of coming on the course … Continue reading →

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Dark Angels

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Each new year John Simmons, Stuart Delves and I meet in the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s comfortable rooms on Edinburgh’s Queen Street, as we did today. It’s our annual Dark Angels partners’ meeting. We have a bar lunch, a bottle … Continue reading →

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Don Roberto

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

My great-great uncle, RB Cunninghame Graham, or Don Roberto as he was known, was a character quite beyond anyone’s invention. The Laird of Gartmore, in Stirlingshire, an aristocrat and descendant of Scottish kings, he outraged his landed neighbours by becoming … Continue reading →

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Rebel talk

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

Intervention. Usually, it’s what takes place between people arguing or fighting. We intervene to stop things getting worse. Perhaps, then, it’s not so odd that it’s a word used so frequently by health professionals. A medical intervention. A surgical intervention. … Continue reading →

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Skating backwards

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

I don’t remember the miseries of the winter of 1963 (no running water in the house for several weeks, among other things, I’m told). I just remember the fun. I was fourteen, home from boarding school, and Perthshire was a … Continue reading →

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Gone dancing

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

Last Tuesday I went along on an Imagination Club outing. The club was set up three years ago by Barclay Price, director of Arts & Business Scotland, on the Heineken principle: that it would refresh the parts – well, one … Continue reading →

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