It's a full life, if a trifle banal

The weekend before last I travelled north to the Black Isle Word Festival, which was being held in Cromarty, a short drive north of Inverness. I went along because the festival was celebrating the centenary of Scottish novelist Jane Duncan (the pen-name of Elizabeth Jane Cameron, 1910-1976), a terrific writer to whom I was introduced by katlinel, at whose kind invitation I made the trip.

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