Jim Malcolm

Scotland Forever !
This lovely piece of stained glass was made for me by Kerry in Alaska, a great friend of the Old Blind Dogs.

Those dots on the other side of the River Tay are salmon fisherman at Rome Croy, an ancient earthwork built by the Romans to create a harbour at the tidal reach of the river.

The river Almond near Perth, a fish was rising in the foreground, honest.

Plaque at Caputh to celebrate the biggest salmon ever caught in britain, by Georgina Ballantyne

who lived here……

River bank here looks like a face!

Sandy spent some time with my big sis and brother in law quadding around and hunting geese.

Greetings from Autumnal Perth. Here is the Old Bridge and Tay Street, taken from the New Bridge but enough about bridges. Shortly after this moment it started to rain, a commodity not rare this year. As a result the river has been in beautiful nick this season although short of trout due to the winter plague of cormorants, blah, blah, glaze over….

Ecce Tiber – Behold The Tiber, The Romans came here and it reminded them of home, something to do with the surrounding hills and the river. But what did they ever do for us? Not much, except cower in their forts. Here was the first real frontier of their Empire that stretched from Persia. We were too fierce and perhaps not worth the sandal. The shellfish is a swan mussel for which the Tay is famous as a source of pearls. See lyrics to Fields of Angus

Hello folks, it has been a while since I have updated my blog and proved why I’ve never been able to keep new year resolutions. But it has not been because I have been doing nothing, oh no, infact it has been quite the opposite and I have lots to tell you all.
Last weekend I was at the Mull of Kintyre festival in Campbeltown. It is a rather remote part of Scotland, due to the peculiar geography of the west coast. I did a concert which featured Karen Matheson of Capercaillie fame. My daughter Beth got up and did a few songs with me as well as Scooter Muse a banjo player fro Alabama who has become a regular feature at the festival. I first met him at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in North Carolina. After the show we all went to see the Bootleg Beatles, the best Beatles tribute band who did a marvelous gig with over two hours of nonstop hits from the whole history of the band, complete with costume changes and orchestra. Campbeltown is also famous for its whisky which is a great favourite of mine. I will be filling in the yawning gap in my blog over the next few days….

Here are some pictures from over the summer and Ill be adding captions shortly…..

 Outside Lego-land in Berlin where we were on a pretend holiday in July. We tell the kids that we’re on vacation, and hope they don’t notice that every night they are

watching their dad singing the same songs in a different city. Isn’t that how everyone’s holidays go? Walking past giant giraffes help with the ‘holiday’ ruse.

And this little piggy…. Sandy ‘s being taken for a ride in downtown Bremen, Germany.

My little brother Murray and his new wife Becky leave the church in Angus in their own unique style.