Stuart Christie, Over The Water (1980)

Stuart Christie, Over The Water (1980)

Stuart Christie: '‘Over the Water’: making sure the polis had gone! A sergeant and a constable had just delivered a letter from the Chief Constable of Grampian Police notifying me that my application for a shotgun licence had been rejected. One argument was that I could then purchase an untold number of shotguns with which I could provision the Orcadian Citizens’ Militia — which was then very much in the news over a proposed SAS exercise linked to possible uranium mining on the island. The sergeant and constable studiously ignored the empty shotgun cartridges scattered around the yard and driveway.'

Stuart Christie

1980