{"id":15246,"date":"2015-04-30T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2015\/04\/30\/hitting-home\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"hitting-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2015\/04\/30\/hitting-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many people to see, so many visitors, so many dinners out. Yes, it’s just four weeks until Craig and I leave Caithness, and the stark fact of it is really dawning on me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

People here have been so kind to us, and\u00a0the landscape is vast and gorgeous.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

We went to a model fair at a local hotel when Craig’s family visited recently, and among all the scaled-down farm equipment, articulated lorries, planes, and boats, there was a table featuring all kinds of buses. When I saw the burgundy Lothian bus, I suddenly choked up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I used to ride those buses into Edinburgh when I first moved to Scotland 14 years ago. It’s the feeling of those days that fuelled my novel, Idea in Stone<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s strange to be going back to Toronto. Exciting, in many ways: work is going extremely well (I’m illustrating a second book for Strategic Coach<\/a>), I have dear, old friends there, and there’ll be such a wealth of culture for us to explore (it pains me that I’m missing the Toronto Comic Arts Festival<\/a>\u00a0by two months; everyone I admire in cartooning will be there).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sometimes I wonder if it’s giving up, like I didn’t make a go of this whole Scotland thing. But I did achieve what I set out to: even according to “Me-Then”:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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So many people to see, so many visitors, so many dinners out. Yes, it’s just four weeks until Craig and I leave Caithness, and the stark fact of it is really dawning on me. People here have been so kind to us, and\u00a0the landscape is vast and gorgeous. We went to a model fair at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}