As our Shore to Shore adventure reaches Scotland, the authors’ spirits rise
Monday 4 July, Jackie Kay: Boris Johnson has resigned and we are off to Scotland: things can surely only get better. The love of place names twinkles again. We pass a sign to Throckington, another called Four Laws. We drive through a beautiful tunnel of green trees and the wee black bus falls silent. It is like going up the nose of the Jolly Green Giant, Carol Ann Duffy says.
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Bringing a gun into the house
changes it …
… You trample
fur and feathers. There’s a spring
in your step; your eyes gleam
like when sex was fresh.
A gun brings a house alive.
