With three maybe four sleeps to go before we know the result of the Scottish referendum I can barely contain my excitement. I am finding it difficult to concentrate on anything else – and like most people, most women especially, there is much to be got through in a day. However there is no other …
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Rhuba Phoil – Skye’s Forest Garden
Rubha Phoil – Sleat’s Forest Garden Skye Permaculture Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead It would be hard to miss the colourful entrance to Rubha Phoil – Skye Permaculture when you step off the ferry from …
GlasgowAnni Back On-Grid!
Hello again to any faithful remaining followers of GlasgowAnni. My blog took the hit from a prolonged spell ‘off grid’ and refusing to pay data roaming charges. I am now back at the Gladgrind after a joyful summer swanning around the alliterative edges of these fair Isles – in Cornwall, Kintyre, Cape Clear Island (off …
Scotland leads UK on preventing violence against women, but its new policy is still incomplete
This article first appeared in The Conversation 2 July 2014 Read the full article here
Another Post from A Woman’s Place
A Scottish Rape Crisis It is not for the first time that this column has been given over to discussions of rape and violence against women but it may be the first time I’ve directed my pen at all right thinking men – yes you sir – please – read on! Whether it is right …
Scotland should look deeper than Clare’s law when tackling domestic violence
This article was originally published on The Conversation Read the original article here Anni Donaldson does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
Oral history can survive the Boston College tapes debacle
Click here to read the original article. This article was originally published in The Conversation in 2014 Anni Donaldson does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
Kintyre Easter Fire
Another Post from A Women’s Place
The March of the Undecideds? Scottish Women #indyref Another Post from A Women’s Place http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/west%20dunbartonshire Recent polls suggest that a woman’s place is rather further from the ballot box than is good for them ahead of September’s independence referendum. By all accounts, they could be spending more of their precious time studying political form and …
Hamiltonhill – gone but still remembered
I took my Mum on a drive the other day to the old streets where our extended family used to live. Mary is 87. The shock of seeing that Hamiltonhill had vanished, its once busy streets now vast expanses of green grass and emptiness took a wee while to sink in. ‘It’s really sad’ Mary …
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