On the farm

I took the following photograph on my parents’ farm, Olivigne, near the South Australian town of Maitland.

Early education

As already mentioned, my first school (for a few months in 1983) was Meadowburn Primary School, in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. (We still have an old Meadowburn Primary schoolbag, which I’ve photographed below.)

I have some memories of it, but they’re fragmentary, like trying to remember a dream. This post was originally going to have a wider scope - a few words about all the educational establishments I’ve attended - but as I sat and thought about it, various bits of memory about school in Scotland came back to me and so I’ve decided to list them. This isn’t really about education; it’s more about memory, and how odd it is that we remember certain things and not others.