Peter Hoffmann

In The Season Of The Year Peter Hoffmann

This memoir describes how children and young people from Oxgangs spent their days during the seasons of the year throughout the 1960s. Despite being town dwellers we lived in the lea of the Pentland Hills and from an early age we enjoyed the changing seasons of nature and life too whether it was in the arrival of the first snows of winter; or at Easter when we rolled our eggs on the lush grass; and then under summer zephyrs and skies thriving on the freedom to roam the hills of Craiglockhart and Pentland; and then as the leaves turned, on soft Autumn days and the return to school, we celebrated the Harvest Festival.