Alistair’s Travels

About Me
Scotland
Spain
Africa
Canada
U.S.A.
Caribbean

Islands

Necessity is the father of work,

laziness is the mother of invention

— Alistair McIlwraith —

Kings chambers Stirling Castle

Passing Thoughts

While I sometimes work for money, most of I work for something to do and the rest of my time is spent developing new,

During the great pandemic of 2020 to 2022 I learned how to transpose music. I did the entire hymn book in E Major because the church I belong to has a chime, a set of bells in the belfry. Now that I have music I can learn to play them. The only bats I have seen there are in the mirror.

I now take the opportunity to work less and enjoy life more.


This means ...

• I drove a truck for something to do – and I got paid for it too!

• I had time to go to Lesotho and serve others.  Please take time to follow the link to Africa and visit Rachel’s Home to see what we did and what we saw.

• I want to travel more.

• I play more golf and yes, after 50 years of playing, I got my first hole in one (5 November, 2013 - hole #11 Savannah Golf Links}.

Here I am with the “Statue of a fisherman”

— Andrew Brown (1999) bronze —Port William, Scotland 

Biplane over the 

Isle of Whithorn

This photo, a compilation of three photos, features a biplane was made by my Grandfather during World War I


Favourite Things

WIFE:

The one I married in 1972. 

CAMERA:

The one that got stolen, my first digital. It had a view finder instead of that stupid screen. I’m forced to replace it with an up to date one, so no viewfinder, just the stupid screen. Do the idiot accountants who had to save a few pennies eliminating the viewfinder not understand that anyone with bifocals cannot focus on the stupid screen? 

I do still have my Voigtländer (the first ever SLR made) film camera. It’s serving as a curio on a shelf with some of my other travel acquisitions. Yes, still works.

SUBJECTS:

Anything that creates discussion – I usually start it, make it loud, then and leave before it gets violent.

VACATION SPOT:

I haven’t finished so I can’t make a final decision yet.


MOTTO:

Remember, humour is also a way of saying something serious

— T.S. Elliot —

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