by tim_bell | Mar 31, 2020 | Latest News
OK I’m getting a wee bit more serious about spreading the word by various means. See what being banged up all day for twelve weeks can do to a man – it’s come to this: I have a brand-new facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TrainspottingTim and a...
by tim_bell | Mar 21, 2020 | Latest News
I always think of the equinoxes as the tipping points of the year, not the solstices. It’s not just the point in the earth’s orbit that’s at the tipping point this equinox, it’s that wee virus, it’s the world economy, it’s the...
by tim_bell | Feb 29, 2020 | Latest News
On this 29th February, the likes of which we won’t see for another oooh, well, four years, do we have a spring in our step as we walk into a bright new future, or are we limping into near-total shut-down of social life in the face of Coronavirus? It...
by tim_bell | Jan 24, 2020 | Latest News
Leith Festival kindly invited me to propose the toast at its fundraising Burns Supper this week. Here is the text in full; it had a mixed reception, and I accept that some may think it’s too political for the occasion, that’s a matter of judgement. Several...
by tim_bell | Dec 24, 2019 | Latest News
Dear Reader, Deck the halls with boughs of holly / T’is the season to be jolly / Don we now our gay apparel / Troll the ancient Yuletide carol / See the blazing Yule before us / Strike the harp and join the chorus / Follow me in merry measure… and so on,...
by tim_bell | Nov 26, 2019 | Latest News
1st December is a bit special this year, in Leith. A 1-hour documentary film has been shot here for screening on 2 December – the nearest they could get to the Day itself, the election has been messing about with the schedules – on BBC! at 2100 hrs, that...
by tim_bell | Nov 22, 2019 | Latest News
Last night in Custom House I met with 30 or so people and discussed my book with Gordon Munro and everyone in the room. But not only my book. Many of these people had vivid memories of 1980s Leith, the heroin scene and the arrival of HIV. To my great relief, nothing...
by tim_bell | Oct 31, 2019 | Latest News
Come along to Custom House on 21 November: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/choose-life-choose-leith-a-conversation-with-tim-bell-tickets-77279696653 . It’s ticketed but free. I’ll be in conversation with Gordon Munro, man of Leith, city councillor and...
by tim_bell | Oct 31, 2019 | Latest News
If we had crashed out of the EU at the end of the month it would have put the clocks back fifty years, never mind the annual ritual of putting them back by an hour. But we didn’t. I am not in favour of referendums, but I have come to think that this is such a...
by tim_bell | Sep 29, 2019 | Latest News
As the colours of autumn begin to show and the leaves begin to fall, it’s time for some reflections. The book continues to do well, sales have been good and interest in it continues. Recently i have been dealing with a production company that is preparing a...
