Each month we will be featuring a guest writer and this month is Eddy Cavin. Eddy is 51 and was born in Glasgow and now lives in Linlithgow. He has been writting for five years. Encouraged by West Lothian Council's Writer in Residence he reads at 'Wordshare' each month and has done sessions in local school. Currently he works for Glasgow City Council specialising in adult literacy, access to university and Gaelic education. He is interested in writing about change and how we remember things,great and small, in our lives.

I want an M and B bar and a Chelsea Whopper, four Blackjacks and two gobstoppers, three Treacle Dainties and a pear ice-lolly, an Everlasting Strip and some Highland Toffee. I want a Wagon Wheel as big as my hand in a black and world I can understand. I want wee, nippy wingers in big, baggy shorts, centre-forwards running in to hammer home the cross, the match held up because a dog ran on the park, an endless game of three-and-in ‘til way past dark. I want Partick Thistle four and Celtic wan in a black and white world I can understand. I want people dancing in the streets to real r’n’b, Chester Burnette howlin’ on the BBC, ‘I Feel Good’, ‘I Feel Pretty’ and ‘I Feel Fine’, Good Golly, Miss Molly’s on the Rock Island Line. I want the lovely Linda Doran to save that last dance. In a black and white world I can understand.

If you would like to contact Eddy he can be reached here

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