The Piper of Loos #2

The following, plus the previous post, are to accompany my guest blog post at 26Treasures, itself written to accompany a piece soon to be displayed alongside Daniel Laidlaw‘s medals in the National Museum of Scotland.

That final piece was also the first to occur to me, but was only written after trying out a couple of other ideas involving music and warfare. This was the other one of them (made possible with the wonderful help of Leila McGinn who provided the dance steps / cribs to “Blue Bonnets Over The Border”)…

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About JFDerry

Writer. Darwin, science & more. 4 books: Piospheres, Darwin in Scotland, Serial Killers. Current project is THE DISSENT OF MAN. Born near London, raised near Primrose Hill and in Lincolnshire, and studied at the Universities of Bangor, York and Edinburgh for degrees in Biochemistry, Bioelectronics and Biological Computation, and a PhD in African Ecology. Mainly working in British and African universities, but also in Spain, Brussels, Mongolia and Australia, to date, publication history is mostly in academic journals, on aspects of computational biology, pastoralism and on Charles Darwin and evolution. However, also written for several national newspapers, various governments, several major record labels and independent book publishers. Fiction has appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and poetry is at the Human Genre Project. Lives in Edinburgh, with partner and their two daughters.

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