Snow Fitba’

This was the playing surface at Strathclyde Homes Stadium this morning With the cold weather showing no sign of letting up I doubt there’ll be any football here at the weekend.

Brrrrrrrrr!

Seventies Cheese – Albert Hammond

Great stuff. I’m sure the Waterboys pinched this intro for Whole of the Moon. This is Free Electric Band.

The Unacceptable Face of Capitalism (2)

Back to work today! Stoicism 8 out of 10 Enthusiasm 0 out of 10 Lets go to work!

The Unacceptable Face of Capitalism

It was one of the most memorable quotes of the twentieth century when Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath described the African conglomerate Lonrho in 1973 as “The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism”. The  company’s Chief Executive at the time Tiny Rowland had been breaking sanctions to deal with the Smith government in Rhodesia. Rowland [...]

Gig Venue Change

Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control the charity gig planned for Tuesday night at the Victoria Halls in Helensburgh will not now take place. However the bands involved will now play on the same night at Coopers in James St Helensburgh and any proceeds will still go to the Smiles for Life charity. Harmonica Lewinsky [...]

Common Sense Disabled.

I was astounded at this story regarding a school adventure trip being cancelled by Highland council. The trip was to include activities such as archery and kayaking. One young girl who attends the school is disabled and has very poor upper body strength. She is therefore unable to take part in archery or kayaking which [...]

White Christmas

Did I mention that we’re having a white Christmas here on the Clyde Estuary? You may be thinking that I took these photos with my SLR camera that I got recently. Wrong! Here is the SD card from that camera. 2gb and containing every photo I’ve taken on it since September. And here is number [...]

Seasons Greetings!

Seasons Greetings to all readers of the Ben Lomond Free Press. Particular good wishes go to those of you who have commented on posts. The blogosphere is usually very quiet at this time of year, both for posts and visitors, and TBLFP is no exception (although there’ll still be a few posts). In the meantime [...]

Strange Choice

Craig Levein? Many would say that the SFA has gone for the heir apparent to the Scotland job. However his appointment will likely cost them £500,000 in compensation to Dundee United. There are always plenty of good managers/coaches out of work and if there weren’t any the SFA fancied they could have got Craigie Broon [...]