Noel Chidwick
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They’ve been caught, flapping high on a tree in our garden for some months. One morning, after a blustery night of wind rattling the tiles and rain tapping the window like a band of agitated drummers, they appeared: witches’ knickers.
I remember that it was a foul night, with shapes and shadows buffeted angrily by [...]
Beethoven is dead, and has been for a while – but what a treat it must have been to be in the audience of the premiere of Symphony No.6, my favourite of his. Perhaps he was conducting – any Beethoven scholars perusing this? – and to hear it performed as the composer wanted would have [...]
Today is the shortest day of the year and it is also National Short Story Day. Here is my offering to the gods to ask for the sun to return. A little piece from a hopefully soon-to-be-completed Volume 2 of New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh. You can get it to read on your favourite [...]
“There’s a hush in the darkness.”
I wrote this song a couple of years ago for our Christmas concert in Dumfries. Hope you like it:
This was recorded with Mark Toner on guitar and harmony vocals and Jenny Johnson on piano, my learned colleagues of Arbelos.
When snow falls at night, There’s a hush [...]
It’s not one of Edinburgh’s most well known jobs, but in light of the funding cuts – thanks Mr Cameron – Edinburgh Council is dropping the post of Edinburgh Cannonball Collector. You’ve never heard of the job? - and for good reason: we don’t really want tourists to know that at 1 o’clock every day they [...]
“Professor MacIntyre is Missing!” and other stories.New Myths and Legends of Edinburgh is available for Kindle from Amazon;
for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch from the Apple iBookstore;
and from Smashwords in all formats.
Find out more about the tales here. . .
