<p>“I didn’t really think through what a lighthouse keeper actually did. I was attracted by the romantic notion of sitting on a rock, writing haikus & dashing off the occasional watercolour.”<br>—Peter Hill in the London Review of Books</p><p>16 & 17 August is the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n11/peter-hill/diary" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n11/peter-hill/diary"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n1</span><span class="invisible">1/peter-hill/diary</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/lighthouse/" rel="tag">#lighthouse</a> <a href="/tags/lighthouses/" rel="tag">#lighthouses</a> <a href="/tags/lightship/" rel="tag">#lightship</a> <a href="/tags/lightships/" rel="tag">#lightships</a> <a href="/tags/illw/" rel="tag">#ILLW</a></p>