Category Archives: Community

High Noon for High Streets

Posted on December 13, 2011 by davidsberry

Just got back in from a bout of Christmas shopping along North Berwick High Street where, despite a biting and doggedly cold West wind, the shops are ablaze, the Xmas lights colourful, with bobble hats and buggies jostling along the … Continue reading →

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British Army of the Forth

Posted on November 14, 2011 by davidsberry

I found myself in new social territory yesterday. I attended the usual Remembrance Day service in North Berwick with my Rear Admiral councillor colleague. We hustled along to the war memorial to take the salute and found the dais that had … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget

Posted on November 11, 2011 by davidsberry

No matter what FIFA says, it seems entirely appropriate for all of us to remember those who served in the British armed forces and most especially those who returned home disabled or who did not return home at all. For … Continue reading →

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Build Communities, Not Commuters

Posted on November 10, 2011 by davidsberry

I woke this morning to Good Morning Scotland extolling the virtues of East Lothian Council and its house buy-back programme. My colleague Cllr. Stuart Currie was on being interviewed on why this was a good idea and was backed up … Continue reading →

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Let’s Get Radical!

Posted on November 7, 2011 by davidsberry

Recent discussion on “the end of PC” has actually been about the demise of the personal computer. But a recent post passed on to me jolted me into thinking that we’re a little too smug with our implementation of political … Continue reading →

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Down Our Street

Posted on October 24, 2011 by davidsberry

Regular readers of this blog may already be thoroughly fed up with the way I bang on about ‘community’ and its importance to people’s sense of wellbeing and belonging, which in turn gives a far better tone to society as … Continue reading →

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Daft Question

Posted on October 11, 2011 by davidsberry

Even the Guardian has recently highlighted the debate here in Scotland whether we should be teaching Scottish culture in schools. For me, this is the ultimate daft question. My reasons are not political, nor simply because it is hard to … Continue reading →

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Getting Above the Law

Posted on October 9, 2011 by davidsberry

Unluckily, the day scheduled by the local Friends of the Law & Glen (FLAG) for me to give an informal history walk up Berwick Law was so resolutely driech that the summit, though only at 200m, was firmly in the … Continue reading →

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Sectarianism: the Common Enemy

Posted on October 3, 2011 by davidsberry

As a long-time member of the SNP, I cheerfully confess that it’s seldom that I’m uplifted by the thoughts of any member of the Labour party. But, as regular readers of this blog will recall, Tom Harris MP, contender for … Continue reading →

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The Right Madness on Skye

Posted on September 25, 2011 by davidsberry

When I lived in Palo Alto, California, I fell in with a creative writing group called Waverley Writers who were pushing the envelope with ‘performance’ poetry long before ‘slam’ poetry became popular. To them, poems belonged both on the street … Continue reading →

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