Waving to the world

We stood, in sleet and biting wind, for two minutes of silence, with pens and pencils held aloft. We had heard read out the names of seventeen victims of last week’s horror in France. Ahead of us, the huge Edinburgh New Town windows of the Consulat Général de France and the neighbouring l’Institut Français d’Ecosse,

And in the beginning

To Very Rev Edward Joseph Canon Hannan. Dear Canon Hannan, On the eve of an historic Hibs v Hearts Cup Final, it suddenly struck me that I should drop you a line and update you on how things have been going with Hibs, and Edinburgh, since you went to your eternal reward in 1891. You