Ross, David. "Ode to Joy for Lucy Who Will Marry to Her Own Song: A Poem Written to Mark the Birth of a Baby on an Orkney Island Is Now Music to Her Ears." Glasgow Herald, 25 June 2005, p. 3.

The story behind GMB's poem "Lullaby for Lucy": the Lucy (Rendall) whose birth he celebrated will be married soon at St. Magnus Cathedral, in a ceremony that will include Peter Maxwell Davies' musical setting of the poem.