In the Season of the Year - An Oxgangs Diary 1971-2021

In the Season of the Year - An Oxgangs Diary 1971-2021 consists of a compilation of extracts from the series of seasonal On This Oxgangs Day books. For each day of the calendar year there is at least one selected post covering the half century between 1971 and 2021 featuring a diary extract relating to Oxgangs.

The diaries begin in boyhood in 1971 with a Letts Schoolboys Diary purchased - or was it stolen(!) - from Baird’s Newsagent’s, Morningside Drive through to the more extended journals of 2021, with the author now a retired old man.

Whispers from the Close Echoes from the Glen

'In this his 70th year, James Boswell, a town and country dweller, publishes the first of his journals - January - which will go on to cover the four seasons of the year. It's a memoir of Scots, Sorts and Sensations set within small world Scotland based upon the diaries, journals and notebooks which he has kept since he was a 14 year old Boroughmuir schoolboy growing up in Oxgangs and into late 20th century Edinburgh of Colinton, Morningside, and Portobello before to moving to the Scottish Highlands in 1996. But unlike most memoirs, the vignettes record the story of day-to-day Scottish life as recorded at the time, rather than through the telescopic lens of memory.'