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Drumtochty Castle Drumtochty was our school, set in the Scottish Highland hills an hour’s drive south-east of Aberdeen. Auchenblae village is the last outpost on your way, then two more miles into the narrow glen, through the stone pillars flanking the gate, past the long green stretch that was once our playing fields and up the drive winding steeply through the trees. ‘So, where’s the school then Dad?’, asked Emilia on our visit. Right on cue, the green canopy opened. The high flag fluttering, the battlements, the lofty arched windows of o...
Submitted to Contest #299
2016. Victoria – Brighton I don’t suppose you can digress from a story you haven’t started. But I will. My frequent journey from London to Brighton is preposterously affordable. The seniors’ Freedom Pass takes me on the city’s underground system to Victoria Station and from there, on the overland train, as far as Croydon and after that the charge is defrayed by my Senior Rail Card. At Brighton, the bus is on the Freedom Pass again. These concessions would be better made to young people travelling to their work or evening play. Thought I woul...
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