Last Saturday morning, towards the end of my short visit to Sydney, I hopped on to the train into the city and sauntered cheerily down towards Circular Quay for a matinee performance of The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House. It had been a lovely week – one of those weeks that leaves you …
July 2026 archive
Jul 16
“Where are you from?” Some early-morning thoughts on identity
Sitting in a taxi this morning on my way to Edinburgh Airport, enjoying the freshness and extraordinary light of a 4.30 am foray into the Scottish landscape, about to exchange the Scottish summer for the Sydney winter – the only material difference, of course, being the longer day in Scotland at this time of year …

