Happy New Year!

Due to us all going to a hogmanay party tonight,  This will be my final posting of 2008. I’d just like to wish everyone a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
This is apparently the original song and lyrics of Auld Lang Syne. Very simple and good.
Lang may yer lum reek!

Those New Year Honours

Order of the Give Him a Knighthood and Keep the Scots Happy – Chris Hoy
O.J.T (Order of the Janitor and Train Driver) – For services to driving a train for 40 years- Wally Notworththwaite from Preston. For services to being a school janitor (also drinking tea and reading the Daily Star) for 38 years – [...]

More End to End Stuff

Nothing like the festive season to lose half your readership and ALL your commenters!
I’ll soldier on nonetheless. I mentioned the footy book (a couple of weeks ago) End to End Stuff which is a cornucopia of useless facts and stories about football.
One which caught my eye was that the career of legendary Everton and England [...]

Unwanted Gifts

I’m thinking of selling off a few of my Christmas presents on Ebay. Can any readers suggest a fair price for a 500ml jar of myrrh?

Sobriety Test

For those of us who have to go to work today and may be worried over our alcohol consumption over Christmas. So long as the picture appears perfectly still you’re ok. If it appears to move you may still have dangerous amounts of alcohol in your system.

Now if that’s alright try this one:

Remember for complete [...]

Hail Stone

Sometimes it’s just too easy to dismiss the mysterious powers of inanimate objects.

Helpless Dancer

I’d just like to say that my thoughts and prayers are with my fellow blogger and good friend Helpless Dancer whose lovely wife Fiona is seriously ill. Yes I did say thoughts and prayers and if I can quote my fellow atheist and friend Alastair, I know there is no one to pray to but [...]

Uncle George RIP

When I was a kid, one of my favourite family visits was to my uncle and aunt’s farm. My two cousins were near me in age and the farm was a great place to play and explore. The barns full of hay, the hen house, climbing the trees etc. My uncle was a typical farmer. [...]

Songs for Aedan and Friends

I haven’t done too much playing and performing during 2008 and most of what I have done has been charity related. Last Night at the Victoria Hall in Helensburgh I was priveleged to play in front of hundreds of locals who had made, by their ticket purchase, a contribution to “Songs for Aedan and Friends”. [...]

Warning! Irresponsible Web Content!

This is of course a responsible blog which respects authority and would never countenance or condone any puerile insult or possible injury to a world leader.
For information and research purposes only I would ask you to click here to see a shameful example of the kind of subversive nonsense that is peddled on the world [...]