A sort of poem
I was looking at flats to rent and I saw a listing on the site for a shop, the one up past your house near the Bellsdyke Road. It said it...
Bright Floodplain Lights 10. The War Memorial
I was the last to leave the dorm, as far as I knew. I turned off the blinking lights on the little Christmas tree; I’d felt that I...
Bright Floodplain Lights 9. Bonnybridge Train Station
In three billion years the sun will expend its hydrogen and eight minutes later all life on Earth, such as it may be, will end forever....
Bright Floodplain Lights 8. Earthworks and Excavations
Now their forty years are spent at last the rotten tower blocks are being torn down, they leave squared off ditches and pits and the...
Bright Floodplain Lights 7. Utopian Overspill and the Tunnels of Denny
During the 1960s, in a fit of madness that has only been displayed by the most detached dictators the soviet of Glasgow city council...
Bright Floodplain Lights 6. The Three Mile Oak
Along the canal, three miles from town and three miles from the house grows the oldest and largest oak tree that can be found anywhere...
The Green Flash
Up among the earthworks my breath grew ragged. I stumbled amongst the dry straw tussocks growing over the dolmens, heaped stones...
Bright Floodplain Lights 5. Horse Rippers
In the spring and autumn, all across the country, there are inexplicable and horrific outbursts of horse mutilation. It is rare that...
Bright Floodplain Lights 4. The Bonnybridge Triangle
There continue to be many UFO sightings in Bonnybridge, about 300 a year apparently and some go back earlier than the beginning of the...
Bright Floodplain Lights 3. The Back Road to Falkirk and the First UFO
The most enduring fact about the village of Bonnybridge is that it became known in the 90s as the UFO capitol of, variously, Britain,...
