After a hectic year caused by one thing or another, JP Associates has made the decision to step into the breach once more dear friends.
THE GOOD PRESBYTERIAN
or not as the case may be should be in your area by Easter 2026.🙏
Learning Love
Is out now on Amazon Bookstore. LL is a very personal journey taken by Annie and myself over recent years.
Apologies that it is not on Kindle but as a booklet there’s not enough pages for LL to qualify for Kindle.
We do hope you enjoy learning of the journey we have taken.
Author’s note. Before reading switch on your imagination.
Alan.
Learning Love
Dear Readers it’s been a wee while since COIN hit the high streets and low streets and I am working hard on the next JP Associates adventure.
In the meantime, Annie and myself have been working on a wee booklet that might interest those who wish to make changes in their lives or indeed see how we went about making some changes ourselves.
The hardback copy of Learning Love is for sale on Lulu.Com and will be available on Amazon in the near future. Paperback booklets will be available from me soon at cost price. Just contact alanfpaddison@gmail.com or on WhatsApp.
Thank you! Alan
When our future meets our past
And some folk say, it will never last, but only until that blast from their past.
Coin
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JP Associates are back in town and my goodness it’s with a vengeance. Coin will rock you, but not necessarily to sleep. You’d better watch out, for Tamworth Shaw’s about.
COIN the 8th novel in the JP Associates series can be found in e-book and paperback on Lulu.com
Goodbye North Leith Parish Kirk
Yesterday 24th March 2024 our parish Kirk saw its final Sunday service. The old place was packed to the gunnels, the singing loud and glorious. Even the Lord Provost sang like a linty.
Then all was quiet…
Sheila the gardener too…
An unusual season
Snowdrops and daffodils
Crocus joined the fray
And people came too.
Ah Springtime
Snowdrop and Aconite
Winter lasts the longer
For the dreadfu wintry blast
But snowdrops come on stronger still,
An icy gust outlasts
And side by side with aconite
Points out yon winter
Is mere outcast.
A Braw Day
Richt fair the day A aften saw
When Standard English gans awa
An bairns git a bonnie treat
An teachers dress in tartan
Fae their bonnie heids tae their tappin feet
Aye, BURNS DAY
When the Oxford Dictionary’s pit awa
An wee Jimmy an Mary tak tae the ha
Fir a dose o Highland fling
An a braw bit sang tae sing
Until the morn when the school bell tolls
An yon Standard rises crushin souls
An Burns an his entourage retire in defeat
An soundless bairns “please repeat”
The way I say my peas and gravy
You see, my Standard has a navy.
Alan
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