What happens when a Dundee teacher tells a classroom of sceptical bairns to “write aboot yersel”, then realises, years later, he should take his own advice? In this wry, big-hearted memoir, Bill Simpson keeps that promise and serves up a life lived at full tilt: from post-war tenements and shipyard queues to Ghanaian staffrooms, Ethiopian deserts and Bahraini playgrounds; from football terraces and family skelps to school trips, stage frights and small miracles of everyday kindness. A Dundonian Sings to a Cabbage is at once laugh-out-loud funny and quietly profound, a tapestry of vignettes stitched with self-deprecation, curiosity and grace - proof that no life is ever ordinary at all. A vivid, humane chorus of “classrooms, countries and confusion,” it hums with warmth long after the bell rings. “It’s part classroom caper, part travelogue, part social history - and entirely a love letter to language, learning and the irrepressible spirit of Dundee.” “Simpson’s voice is a joy - wry, tender and fearless. Brimming with humour, hard-won wisdom and quiet grace, this unputdownable memoir will leave you feeling braver, kinder and glad to be alive.”