EMMA COWING: After 10 years, dear reader, my final column...
(but definitely not my last word!) By Emma Cowing For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 21 June 2024 | Updated: 22:54 BST, 21 June 2024 e-mail View comments This will be my final column in the Scottish Daily Mail. It feels strange even to type these words, perhaps because I’ve loved it so much. In 27 years of journalism, writing this page is the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done.
Why? Mainly because of you, the readers. Over the past ten years many of you have written to me, often wittily, sometimes kind and yes, occasionally cross, on a huge range of subjects. We’ve debated Scottish independence, the comings and goings at the Scottish parliament, whether a gin and tonic really was the best lockdown drink, and the merits of high heels versus flats.
I’m honoured to have been a small part of your weekends, dear reader There have been disagreements, too, while some of you have done a stellar job in keeping me right. One time I mis-identified a Corbett as a Munro, and while the man who wrote was originally rather irked about this, by the end of the exchange we were promising to meet up out on the hills. Others have shared alternative viewpoints that hadn’t even occurred to me, opening up fascinating debates and discussions.
One reader, with whom I’d built up a friendship, emailed me from his hospice bed to say goodbye. It was a privilege to have been in his thoughts at the end, even tho.