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OBITUARY: REVEREND EVERARD SOPHOCLES SMILEY 1953-2021 The Reverend Everard Sophocles Smiley, best known as ‘EverSo’, or just plain ‘E.S.’ (pronounced as in ‘Ye..ess?’) has finally passed away at whatever age he claimed to be. That was the thing with Ever (as he preferred to be called), one could never quite pin him down. Just when…
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The spelling is unimportant. One is English, the other American English, and I’m blowed if I can remember which is which. What works is that we come to an understanding of what journaling actually means… although there is always the problem of getting it right for a foreign market. That’s what editors are for, I…
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Now available to purchase online, A Shrew Danced On My Paintbox, book 1 in a planned series entitled Always Argyll. These illustrated journeys through Argyll will include reflections and meditations to reveal a personal response to the land of my ancestors. Prices start at £32 for the softcover print version. An instant pdf version (for viewing…
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Douglas Adams, author of The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to The Galaxy trilogy (of 5 books if I recall correctly), said “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” I cannot say that I hear whooshing, nor do I love seeing deadlines passing by at any speed, but I am very…
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Born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1953, I have been painting and drawing for as long as I can remember. My father, who went under the name of Mackean Stewart, produced many excellent artworks until his death in 2010. His Kintyre paintings were particularly popular and prints & cards of his work are still available. At Edinburgh…