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Taking a dip off Mull
Photograph by
Islay McLeod

Kilsyth has won the battle
to shape what kids do.
Renfrew has lost it
Alan McIntyre
Somewhat disoriented I watched my kids play out my childhood for the
next couple of hours and pass out in the car on the way back to Renfrew utterly exhausted.

Alan McIntyre is a Scottish-born partner in a New York-based financial services company