Earthquake Again

“Small earthquake in Chile – not many dead” It was regarded as the dullest headline ever published and was claimed by Claude Cockburn in the 1930′s as having been written by him with that purpose. It is often used as an example of a story which no-one will be interested in. If you’ve never heard [...]

Unlikely Headlines?

We get bombarded by opinion polls and such these days. Retail sales, house prices and how much the Tories are going to win the election by are the current staple fare of the polling organisations. If it really were so easy to predict the future though, we’d all be cleaning up at the bookies. On [...]

Arbroath 3 Sons 1

I wasn’t at the game yesterday as work intervened. Things were looking good when David Winters put Sons ahead at half time but a second half defensive collapse saw Arbroath scoring three and pick up three vital points. Hopefully the postponements are now over and the fitba’ can get back to some sort of normality [...]

Unusual Buildings (9) – The Banknote Building

This is an office building in Kaunas Lithuania. As Village of Joy explains: Despite what you might think this amazing building is not a temporal installation. The image of the LTL 1000 banknote is brought onto this building using special enamel paint. Money theme well represents various businesses located in this spectacular building.  It’s an [...]

The Weekend Waits – Hang On St Christopher

Hang on St. Christopher through the smoke and the oil Buckle down the rumble seat let the radiator boil got an overhead downshift and a two dollar grill got an 85 cabin on an 85 hill hang on St. Christopher on the passenger side open it up tonight the devil can ride hang on St. [...]

Scots Law News

This comes from the Scots Law News blog, to which one of this blogs friends, Scott Wortley, contributes. It looks at the law in an oblique and lighthearted way. The following story perhaps illustrates the point: As the great Matt McGinn song testifies you can’t fling a jeely piece from a twenty storey flat, however, [...]

Fat Chance

I see the government in Holyrood now has obesity in its sights and the statistic that 40% of Scots could be obese by 2020 is an alarming one. The proposals include limiting portion sizes in restaurants, not having sweets near the checkout at supermarkets etc. I have some insight on this issue having shed over [...]

Dumbarton on Facebook!

There is now a Facebook group called Save Dumbarton High Street. I’ve joined and there are nearly 300 people on there so far! Edit 28th Feb. Make that over 500!

Lodged in the Memory

Campbell (sonsdiary) makes comment in the caption competition below regarding the up and coming friendship festival in Glasgow on Sunday, otherwise known as the Old Firm match. Campbell reckons Jim Murphy might be asking for divine intervention on behalf of his team. As this photo (sent to me by a BLFP correspondent) implies however, more [...]

Caption Competition

What on earth is Jim Murphy doing here? I mean I have heard about kissing the ring but I thought that was about jewellery!