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Embry in the rain at Alan
and Jen’s wedding in May, 1972.
Yeh, prolly Senior Service Plain in
the richt hawn. That’s another medic
Ian Anderson and girlfriend there.
Rod Muir an’ JayBo up Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh on a hazy summer day.
Aboot the mid-1980s by looks o’ the ladz.
Braw that John Riley didnae seem to care aboo’ me pickin’ mah nose …
He’s prolly thinkin’: “His wedding, can do what he likes!” July, 1988!
(James, John, Writer, Beth)
At MacKinnon House Hotel, Isle of Skye, 2008. “Eh? Ah’ve hud
only the yin? Gonna fung huv anuther yin the noo tho’!”
“Ah prefer beer … swap ye?”
“A’ right, ah prefer a’thing! ‘S’long as iz fung strong!”
“Mahfung glessuz fung emp’y.”
“Sorry, sorry, here we go!”
Ewen; The Writer; The Man and his pipe in Christchurch, Feb., 2010.
Dinnae ken how they’re lookin’ sae fung weel … maybe the fung suntans!
“So you want to make a phone call, eh?”
My 65th at Paraparaumu 242 Main Road.
Noosa for Tom’s 65th, Nov., 2013. Tom and James in
Sails Restaurant bar (we goat free drinks coz had tae wait
gey near 40 mins fur wur table!) Sails is on the beach
at Laguna Bay.
“Is it like this?”
Photo withdrawn: “No, Jim, it’s like this!”
Photo withdrawn: “OK, a’h’ve go’ it noo!”
Could be James daen his passion fur Scots stuff but it’s actually Yours Truly
being a daftie recordin’ “Tartan Daffodils”, a spoof on Wordsworth’s weel-
kent poem.
(Go to “Media and Links” for this bitto’ drama but ahm tellin’ ye noo, ye’ll need tae ken
the awri-gynal an’ hae a guid hud oan the vernac’lar.)
Mar., 2013, Paraparaumu for mah 65th.
JayBo: Aye, ken fine. You packed it in, huv ye?
Ewen Fraser and his “ancient, trusty, drouthy crony”. (Skye, 2006)
“You got the time on yer, cock?”
“Eh? Pits me in mind o’ a joke!”
Aul’ school freenz, Ewen, Lynda and JayBo – Skye, 2006
Great “Double Take”! Beth onlooking, on
Moreton Island, on Nov. 8th, 2018 … on … at 8.35 p.m.
Tom: “Where is your glass, my good fellow?”
James: “They’re baith fung emp’y!”
Aye, ah aye stawn like this, been daen it
a’ mah fung life! Iz natural fur me.
“OK, whaur dah pit mah fung gless?”
James and Tom in younger years at some function or other.