Category Archives: Love

Back in the water

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Jamie Jauncey

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I’m back in a place I love. I haven’t been here for eight years and my first impression on arrival was how beautiful it is. I had forgotten. An hour north of Seville, tucked into the side of a wooded … Continue reading →

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Food of love

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Jamie Jauncey

For a dozen years, from the early nineties, my brother Simon and I ran a dance band. We had played together as children and teenagers but our adult lives had taken us in different directions and it was only when … Continue reading →

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Southern bells

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Jamie Jauncey

Before the pandemic I used to go into Edinburgh quite regularly. We have a railway station within walking distance of our house and it was a pleasant hour-and-a-half journey, down to Perth, through Fife and along the coast of the … Continue reading →

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No return

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Jamie Jauncey

(Also available as a podcast here) Two weeks ago I wrote about how I was experiencing life in lockdown. This post reached the second-largest number of readers I’ve ever had, the largest being for the post I wrote the day … Continue reading →

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Affairs of the heart

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

A friend wrote to me this week to let me know that a novel I had read for her a couple of years ago is starting to make waves. She has the interest of both a good Scottish publisher and … Continue reading →

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Closer to the stars

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

The last time I posted, nearly three months ago, it was with an unfinished story. My mother was in her final hours, and I wrote about how touched I was by the loving kindness she was receiving from the staff … Continue reading →

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Kind to the end

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

The kindness – perhaps I should call it love – that abounds at my mother’s care home is almost overwhelming. She is in her last hours. Since early yesterday morning my brother and I have been taking it in turns … Continue reading →

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Hawks and angels

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

Nestled into steep woods on the slopes of a Cotswold valley stands a manor house built of stone the colour of pale honey. It has tall chimneys and gothic windows and a walled garden full of vegetables and fruit trees … Continue reading →

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Keeping secrets

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

Eighteen months ago my daughter Anna left for Canada on a two-year working visa. She had been living in London since graduating from university, and finding city life less and less to her taste. She wanted freedom, room to breathe, … Continue reading →

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Ends of the earth

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

In summer 2003 I was invited to chair an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The book in question was by a writer I knew and admired but had never met. The event was sponsored by a small Edinburgh … Continue reading →

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