Mairi’s Wedding

Reflections on the Scottish classic

As one of the few Caucasians in the area ‒ some 1,100km northeast of Perth, Western Australia ‒ which was home to me in those days, I lived a relatively simple, untrammeled way of life.

Mobile phones and computers were unknown out there as was television reception. Indeed, there was no electric power after 9pm, the hour at which I usually turned off the diesel generator. Such was life in the Great Australian Outback…