The Cat & The Final Cut

Added on 02 February 2009

This weekend the BBC had a story about a cat which ran away from a house in Bearsden and turned up on Millport two years later.... Seriously, this made the news. The Hollywood movie companies must be fighting each other for the screen option. The cat walked forty miles and got on a ferry. What an ex...

Runner's World, January 2006

Added on 29 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently writing the upcoming crime comedy blockbuster, The Final Cut. The following first appeared in Runner's World magazine in January 2006: Crawling topless through the snow, jumping practically naked into a freezing river, boxing, kick-boxing, wrestling, supporting yourself ...

There's Something Going Round

Added on 28 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently writing the upcoming blockbuster, The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 11th February 2005: Whenever your kid gets sick and you mention it to another parent, there is a kneejerk response. 'There's something going round.' It's impossib...

Battle of the Books

Added on 27 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently engaged in writing The Final Cut, the upcoming barbershop death junkie comedy blockbuster. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 21st May 2004: This week, in keeping with the general feel of the Letter From Belgrade since it's inaugruation some eigh...

In the city of Hull...

Added on 26 January 2009

Two of Two, as wise and grubby an eight year-old wee boy as there is, started writing a story at the weekend, Chapter 2 of which began: It was September the 3rd and it was raining very heavily on Twist Street. Marcus lived on Twist. He lived in number 99 with his two brothers. They were plotting to ...