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Paying attention

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Jamie Jauncey

This time next month I will be on Whidbey Island, just north of Seattle, with my great friend and Dark Angels colleague, Richard Pelletier. We’ll be running a residential course for the first time since the start of the pandemic. … 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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Brexit Day

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Jamie Jauncey

Last year, when I began to write about my great-great uncle, RB Cunninghame Graham, I decided that I would keep him, and politics generally, off the pages of this blog. Today being Brexit Day, I have posted about him and … Continue reading →

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Stranger at the Rodeo

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

Lost in the hills to the south of Perth is a former schoolhouse, one of the four or five buildings in a hamlet gloriously named Path of Condie. The place feels like an eyrie, with brackeny valleys plunging away below … 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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Perfect lives

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

For the final day of our recent The Stories We Tell course at Cortijo Romero, in Spain, we invited people to write or tell a personal story that had not previously been told. The only rules were that it should … 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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More from Anna …

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

More from daughter Anna’s summer Vancouver Island journal …

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From Anna Jauncey …

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey
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