Helping You to Write a Heartfelt Marriage Ceremony
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Essays, Poetry & Articles
on diverse subjects in no particular order
Philip Dundas
- May 19
- 1 min
love poems
moon That night⎯ the night he came back. Standing at the door, saying he wanted to stay, ‘Could I? Please.’ Uncertain for a moment, I...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 13
- 3 min
The Tamer - a poem
When I was a cub you reared me by hand Teaching me to feel no pain, So that when you whipped me, I would forget. Parading in your top...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Choosing A Celebrant
I talk with people about death and dying every day. Everyone says the same thing. Those left behind wish they had discussed what should...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Torridon Croft - a poem
winds claw at the glass; the old man reflected that his life had been the same ⎯ looking out beyond the black moor to an unspoken...
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Philip Dundas
- Mar 24
- 8 min
Scotland - a hand on history
"The mark of a Scot of all classes is that he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive...
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Philip Dundas
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Whatever Next?
Our bodies become the atoms around us. What else? When talking to mourning families, the question often arises about what happens to us...
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Philip Dundas
- Feb 21
- 2 min
The Perfect English Breakfast
I generally try to avoid fried morning meals. As the journey past middle-age unfolds an underlying grief for svelte 30inch waists, allows...
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Philip Dundas
- Feb 10
- 3 min
Fearing the Unknown
Understanding your own beliefs It’s no revelation to say that death is the only thing we can count on in our lives. It’s the great...
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Philip Dundas
- Feb 3
- 5 min
Victims Finally Have a Voice
published in The Times Scotland 03/02/23 It’s a cold winter’s afternoon in 1978. My mother draws up in her car to collect me from outside...
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Philip Dundas
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
Toyboys & Tentacles
Like most people, my first taste of cephalopod was abroad. I think mine was 1985 and I arrived in Greece for the first time. Flown in to...
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Philip Dundas
- May 28, 2022
- 1 min
The Buchaille
Each vertebrae and tendon is stretched taut in the ascent. Movement hugged into the spirit from whence it came, each manoeuvre, like a...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11, 2022
- 7 min
Holy Isle - Finding Peace
It’s absolutely calm. The mist hangs on the surface of the sea. It feels as though Charon, the boatman is transporting me over the Styx...
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Philip Dundas
- Jan 15, 2021
- 2 min
Scotch Broth - Chieftain of Soups
When it comes to cooking, there is nothing simpler and more satisfying to make than soup. If you have a hand-blender you can literally...
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Philip Dundas
- Jan 26, 2020
- 3 min
Dying to Talk
Why working with a celebrant or end of life companion is important Beginning my training as an End of Life Companion has been a...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 19, 2019
- 2 min
Duck Lunch
Spring’s a great time for duck. Deliciously iridescent dib-dabbing mallards quacking across the ponds amorously at their brindled...
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Philip Dundas
- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min
Oliviera, Nice
Olive oil is like coffee, tea and flour, when you taste the best, nothing compares. In this country Elizabeth David was the first to...
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Philip Dundas
- Apr 11, 2015
- 7 min
A Collected Brilliance
(published in The Scotsman 05/03/2003) Rumours abound. The Edinburgh literati are excited. There is a common theme in bar chat among the...
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Philip Dundas
- Jul 7, 2014
- 1 min
Lindos - an elegy
Piping bats tarry night, the sea sound echoes the wash of a different shore, the heart-beat of life here echoes another song. ‘Now...
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Philip Dundas
- Jul 14, 2008
- 7 min
Winifred Nicholson in Scotland
first published in The Scotsman ‘This place looks even more beautiful this year in stormy weather, and is even harder to paint. The high...
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